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Maria del Rosario Perez, MD
Scientist, Radiation & Environmental Health Programme
Department of Public Health & Environment (PHE)
Health Security & Environment Cluster (HSE)
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Dr María del Rosario Pérez is a medical doctor who has worked at the Unit Interventions on Healthy Environments (IHE), Department of Public Health and Environment (PHE) of the World Health Organization (WHO) since April 2007.

Her main responsibility at WHO is the technical coordination of the WHO Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings. Her work at WHO also includes the development of guidance, norms and standards on ionizing radiation and human health and the provision of technical support to preparedness and response in radiation emergencies.

Dr. Pérez has been involved in the revision of the International Basic Safety Standards (BSS) for Protection against Ionizing Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources since her arrival at WHO. In June 2009 she was nominated to represent WHO at the Joint BSS Secretariat as well as at the IAEA Radiation SafetyStandards Committee (RASSC). She also represents WHO at the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety (IACRS),and serves as WHO observer the ICRP Committee 3 on Medical Exposures, the Group of Scientific Experts referred to in Article 31 of the Euratom Treaty and its Working Party on Medical Exposures.

Dr Pérez received her M.D. in 1980 from the School of Medicine of Buenos Aires University in Argentina, where she later specialized on Radiation Oncology. In 1990 she obtained a diploma in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety at the IAEA post-graduate course jointly hosted by the School of Engineering of Buenos Aires University and the Argentine National Atomic Energy (CNEA), and completed her formation in Epidemiology in the National Academy of Medicine.

Her professional activity has been related with radiation protection and human health for more than twenty years. She contributed to the implementation of programs of education and training in radiation protection in Latin America, where she actively promoted regional cooperation on medical and public health response in emergencies.

Dr. Pérez was the head of the Radiopathology Laboratory at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, director of the REMPAN Liaison Institution in Argentina, member of the National Advisory Council in Radioisotopes and Radiations, alternate representative of Argentina at United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and consultant of UNSCEAR on Effects of Ionizing Radiation of the Immune System. She participated in international expert teams involved in the preparedness and response in radiation emergencies. She coordinated research projects on the effects of ionizing radiation on the immune system, foetal brain, and dermal endothelial cells, and co-authored more than 90 technical papers in her areas of expertise.




 
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