NEW AdCom MEMBERS
Class of 2012
In the first issue of 2009 we especially welcome our new AdCom elected members and new Technical Committee chairs. Brief biographies follow for some of the members with whom you may not be familiar or who haven’t had recent bios published.

ELECTED AdCom MEMBERS
Steven H. Gold
Plasma Science and Applications

A recent biography of Steve appeared in the June 2008 issue of the Newsletter when his receipt of the 2008 Richard F. Shea Award was announced. Steve has been active on AdCom in many capacities over the last 5 years, especially as a former PSA elected member and he continues his activities as the chair of the Chapters and Local Activities Functional Committee and the Distinguished Lecturer Program liaison.
Steven H. Gold can be reached at steven.gold@nrl.navy.mil.

Jean-Luc Leray
Transnational Committee

Jean-Luc Leray (A'87-SM'95-F'04), is a Research Director in Microelectronics-Radiation Effects at the French Atomic
Energy Commissariat (CEA) in Saclay, France. He also serves as assistant technical adviser to the High-Commissioner of Atomic Energy. He earned the Dr. es Sc. (Ph.D.) in physics in Paris in 1989 with a dissertation on the effects of radiation and techniques for hardening CMOS, Silicon on Insulator (SOS, SOI) and GaAs technologies. Since receiving his Ph.D., Jean-Luc has been active in the development of radiation-resistant technologies and circuit designs, for example for the ATLAS and CMS detectors at LHC that detect unprecedented levels of several tens of megarads. He has published more than 80 papers in IEEE-refereed publications on microelectronics and radiation effects. He has taught or organized several short courses at a number of IEEE/NPSS NSREC and IEEE-sponsored RADECS Conferences (RADiation and its Effects in Components and Systems), in Europe. He has served in many chairman positions including General Conference chair at RADECS.
He has also been active in several steering committees including the European RADECS Association, and other committees dealing with electronics and instrumentation on fusion (e.g., the International ITER - NIF - LMJ Harsh Environment Workshop, being held in 2007), and on fission for nuclear power plants (e.g., a European Conference to be held in 2009).
Presently, Dr. Leray is serving as the vice-president (elect) of IEEE's France Section (after having founded the NPSS France Chapter in 2001). The Transnational Committee reflects his present engagement as an IEEE Volunteer.
Jean-Luc Leray can be reached at CEA, bat 447, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex; Phone:+33 1 64 50 20 41 (A: 22 64); Cell +33 6 30 64 33 35; E-mail: Jean-Luc.Leray@ieee.org.

Tom K. Lewellen
Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science and Technology

Tom K. Lewellen received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of Washington in 1972. At that time, he joined the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Washington working on neutron activation analysis schemes for measuring whole body calcium. Since then, he has worked in many areas of Nuclear Medicine, including detector development (both PET and SPECT), system development (PET – human and animal systems), simulation software development (the SimSET software package), and general issues in quantitative imaging such as scatter correction in positron volume imaging. The current research is focused on preclinical instrumentation and PET/MR scanner development. He is currently a Professor of Radiology, Electrical Engineering, as well as the director of Nuclear Medicine Physics. In support of IEEE, he has served as chair of the Medical Imaging Conference (1998, local arrangements chair for the NSS/MIC (1999, 2009), general chair for the NSS/MIC (2005), NMISTC chair (2005-2007), elected member of AdCom (2000 – 2003) and will chair the NSS/MIC site selection committee starting in 2009. He will be NSS/MIC/RTSD local arrangements chair in 2010 and General Chair in 2012. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. For the Society of Nuclear Medicine he has long served on the program committee, heading the instrumentation section in 1995. He has also served in many posts (including president) of the SNM computer and instrumentation section.
Tom K. Lewellen can be reached at tkldog@u.washington.edu.