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Professional
Qualifications
Daniel A. Gollnick, Ph.D., President
Dr. Dan Gollnick received his B.S. degree in Physics and his
M.S. degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Michigan State
University. He received his Ph.D., in the field of Medical
Radiation Physics, from the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). Since 1975, he has been Certified in Comprehensive
Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics and
is a charter member of the American Academy of Health Physics.
Dr. Gollnick joined the faculty of the Department of Physics
at California State University Los Angeles in 1964. He was promoted
to Full Professor in 1980. He served 12 years as Campus Radiation
Safety Officer at CSULA. The B.S. and M.S. degree options in
Radiological Health Physics were conceived and developed under
his direction. In 1982 he instituted and then directed the Health
Physics Certificate Program at Cal State. This was an innovative
program whereby radiation protection technologists being trained
on-site at nuclear power stations received transferrable university
credits for their work. He resigned from the faculty in 1986.
In 1973, Dr. Gollnick founded Pacific Radiation Corporation to
provide intensive on-site radiation protection training courses,
at the technical and professional levels. He has continued to
teach these courses at numerous U.S. locations as well as in
Canada, Europe and South America. The company has subsequently
expanded into offering special consulting services, performing
radioanalytical laboratory measurements, conducting on-site decontamination
and decommissioning services, offering mobile radiation laboratory
services at client sites, and calibrating a wide variety of radiation
survey meters and dosimetry instruments.
A number of Dr. Gollnick's technical papers have been published
in scientific journals. In addition, he has authored two textbooks
in the field of nuclear safety and has written a self study course,
the only one ever recognized by the National Registry of Radiation
Protection Technologists. He has also produced several videotape
training courses in the field. During 1980 Dr. Gollnick accepted
an invitation from the United Nations International Atomic Energy
Agency to serve for six months in Argentina as an International
Expert in Health Physics. While there, he established the first
graduate school level program in nuclear radiation protection
in South America. In 1992 he was invited to visit Chernobyl as
part of a scientific exchange program under leadership from the
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
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