Guidelines for Iodine Prophylaxis following Nuclear Accidents

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Guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents1999 updateAcknowledgementsWHO acknowledges with gratitude the scientific input and theprofessional opinions of all individuals, endocrinologists andemergency preparedness specialists who have contributed to thefinalization of this document.Special acknowledgements are made to Dr Wendla Paile and Mr LeifBlomqvist of the Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority, the two WHOconsultants who have prepared this document.The Guidelines were extensively reviewed by the following experts onendocrinology and emergency preparedness nominated by WHO andIAEA:Ms Eliana C.S. Amaral, Director, Institute for Radioprotection andDosimetry, BrazilDr David V. Becker, Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine, NewYork Hospital, USADr David Brown, Institute of Naval Medicine, United KingdomDr Frank J. Congel, Incident Response Division, US Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, USADr François Delange, Executive Director, International Council forControl of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, BelgiumDr John Harrison, Assistant Director, NRPB, United KingdomMr F. Owen Hoffmann, Director, Centre for Risk Analysis, USADr L. Van Middlesworth, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USAProfessor Janusz Nauman, Warsaw University Medical School,PolandDr Jean-Claude Nenot, Centre d’études nucléaires, FranceProfessor Aldo Pinchera, University of Pisa, ItalyDr E.D Rubery, Department of Health, United KingdomDr John Standbury, International Council for Control of IodineDeficiency Disorders, USAProfessor Nikolaj Dmitrievitch Tronko, Kiev Institute ofEndocrinology and Metabolism of the Academy of Sciences, UkraineDr Hilary Walker Department of Health, United KingdomProfessor Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Research Laboratories,United KingdomDr Jan Wolffe, National Cancer Institute, USA23
Guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents1999 updateThe formal review of the document was carried out by the followingrepresentatives of the four regional thyroid associations and by thefollowing experts:American Thyroid Association (ATA)Dr David V. Becker, Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine, NewYork Hospital, USADr Martin I. Surks, Montefiore Medical Center & Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine, USALatin American Thyroid Society (LATS)Dr Edna Teruko Kimura, Universidade de Sao Paolo, BrazilDr Mario A. Pisarev, Comision Nacional de Energia, ArgentinaAsia and Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA)Dr Shigenobu NagatakiEuropean Thyroid Association (ETA)Dr John H. Lazarus, Department of Medicine, Llandough Hospital,United KingdomDr Elena Bouglova, Research Clinical Institute of Radiation Medicineand Endocrinology, Minsk, BelarusMr Aubrey Godwin, Director, Radiation Agency, Arizona, USAWHO also acknowledges with gratitude the support provided byMs Diane Miller, Administrator of the American Thyroid Associationin the organization of the Oregon Meeting where the formal review ofthe document was carried out.The guidelines for stable iodine prophylaxis have been formallyendorsed by the Latin American Thyroid Society, the Asia andOceania Thyroid Association and the European Thyroid Association.24
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