David A. Schauer, ScD, CHP, is the head of the Radiation Generators Division and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) liaison at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). He previously served as the executive director emeritus of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). Schauer is a diplomate of the American Board of Health Physics. During his tenure a number of updated and new publications were issued by the Council.
Following graduation from Williamstown High School (1979) where he was named scholar athlete, Schauer was recruited to pitch at Liberty University. Schauer was used mostly as a starter and set the single game record for strikeouts until a hard-throwing lefthander (Randy Tomlin – Pittsburgh Pirates and pitching coach for the AA Harrisburg Nats) arrived a few years later and established a new mark. During his years at Liberty, Schauer was coached by former major league pitcher, Al Worthington, and played with Sid Bream, Lee Guetterman and Darrell Manuel (youngest brother of Phillies manager, Charlie Manuel). The Liberty baseball teams of the early 1980s made three successive trips to the NAIA college world series in Lubbock, TX.
Following graduation from Liberty in 1983, Schauer was commissioned as an ensign in the US Navy Medical Service Corps. Ensign Schauer attended Navy Officer Indoctrination School in Newport, RI in 1984. That same year, he completed the Navy Radiation Health Officers Course at the Naval Undersea Medicine Institute in Groton, CT, and Combat Casualty Care (C4) at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX, and was commissioned as a radiation specialist.[1] Ensign Schauer worked his way up the ranks before retiring at the beginning of 2004 as a Commander. During those 20 years, Schauer served in various leadership positions in San Diego, CA, Portsmouth, NH and Bethesda, MD.
NCRP publications issued during his tenure as Executive Director
1990 Medical Department Intermediate Leadership, Management, Education and Training Course, NSHS, Bethesda, MD
1998 Project Management College, Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC
1999 Radioactivity in the Environment: Risk, Assessment, and Measurement, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2000 MR Imaging: A Seminar for Medical Physicists, Baltimore, MD
2005 Accreditation Board on Engineering and Technology, Program Evaluator Training, Spokane, WA
Research grants
David A. Schauer's research activities include;
"Mobile emergency-response in vivo EPR dosimetry system", collaboration with Dartmouth Medical Center and NIST, funded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), FY02-03 – $325k.
Establishment of “Department of Defense Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Forensic Radiation Biodosimetry Laboratory”, funded by DTRA, FY02-03 – $463k.
Various grants and contracts with CDC, DHS, DOD, DOE, NASA, Navy, NCI, NIST and NRC in support of NCRP's scientific program, annual budget in 2007 – $2.9M.
Editorials and publications
Schauer has published a number of scientific articles, proceedings and reports individually and in collaboration with fellow scientists and students. He also contributed book chapters to the "Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis" published by Elsevier Academic Press (2003) and "Advances in Medical Physics: 2012" published by Medical Physics Publishing (2012).
Dr. Schauer is an Editorial Board member of the following journals:
March 18, 2011, CNN HLN, Nancy Grace Show, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Accident, Potential Impact on the United States.
March 21, 2011, CNN HLN, Nancy Grace Show, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Accident, Control of Contaminated Food Imports From Japan to the United States
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