In the Spotlight: Cham Dallas, PhD.

While he has only been an instructor at the Center for Domestic Preparedness for two years, Dr. Cham Dallas has more than 30 years of experience in the radiation contamination field.

His experience includes time both in and out of the classroom.

Dallas is a professor in the University of Georgia’s Health Policy and Management Department, as well as the Medical College of Georgia’s Emergency Medicine Department.

He’s also led a dozen scientific expeditions to areas in the world with the highest degrees of radioactive contamination, including Chernobyl, Ukraine, and Fukushima, Japan, and collaborated on national-level projects with the Center for Mass Destruction Defense, the American Medical Association, the National Disaster Life Support Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dallas encouraged those thinking of taking the center’s Radiation Exposure Response Operations (RERO) Course to sign up, saying, “This is excellent and, in many ways, unprecedented training in a field which is likely to be very important in the future of emergency response in the U.S.”