Curriculum
vitae
I was born in Budapest
in 1954. I am a physicist and I got my MSc degree at the Roland
Eötvös University,
Budapest in
1977.
From 1977 to 1991 I worked at the Medicor Works (Budapest) as a
development physicist. I made measurements and did research for X-ray equipment
development in the X-ray and Imaging Departments. I was the project manager of
an international standardization project and a metrological development
project.
From March 1991 to April 2001 I was senior physicist of
the National Institute for Roentgenology and Radiation Physics (Budapest). Here I was the
leader of the "Standardization Section". My duties were among others
the following: keeping registers of radiological equipment, giving official
authorization for discarding radiological equipment, evaluating plans of
radiological installations before their official authorization,
standardization, quality problems in diagnostic radiology, radiation protection
training of radiological staff, participation in type testing procedures of
radiological equipment and protective devices and also in managing of the
technical library of the institute. From 1982 to 2001 I was a radiation
protection supervisor.
Since 1st of May, 2001, I have been a senior
researcher of the National "Frédéric Joliot-Curie"
Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene (NRIRR, Budapest), Division of Occupational
Radiohygiene. Here I am the leader of diagnostic radiology team and project manager
of acceptance testing (it is an official duty of the institute) and conformance
testing of diagnostic radiological equipment in an accredited testing
laboratory. My main task is to elaborate the system of tests and suggestions
concerning quality assurance in diagnostic radiology, and to lead these
activities. Moreover, I participate in radiation protection testing of
radiological equipment and rooms, the National Patient Dose Assessment
Programme, expertise activities of the institute, radiation protection
trainings and standardization in diagnostic radiology.
From 2006 I am – in a part-time job – the
laboratory leader of the “X-ray Status Testing Laboratory” of
Izotop Ltd., Budapest.
From 2008 I am also an individual undertaker.
I got my PhD degree in 1986. I have contributed 25
papers to journals (one of them appeared in Phys. Med. Biol., another one in J.
Biomed. Eng.), 19 papers to conferences and 134 conference presentations,
prepared course materials, research reports, book reviews, conference reports
and a methodological guide. I translated into Hungarian from IEC/EN 60601
International Standard series the 1-3, 2-28, 2-32, 2-7, 2-45, 2-44, 2-43, 2-17,
2-33 and from IEC(/EN) 61223 series the 1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3 and 3-4.
I participated in several trainings (e.g. EFOMP Summer
School in Radiophysics/Diagnostic Radiology held in Nancy, France, June 19-25,
1994 and „European School of Medical Physics”, week 2,
„Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiations” held in Archamps, France,
November 14-20 2001), international conferences (e.g. ECR, RSNA, ICMP, IRPA).
In February 1999 with the grant of the Hungarian Soros Foundation under the
title "Quality assurance and radiation protection in diagnostic
radiology" I visited three medical physics centres in England: Liverpool, Guildford and London. In 2001 with the
support of a Sunnybrook and Women’s College Imaging Research Visiting
Scholar Award I visited the Imaging Research at SWC
Health Sciences
Center in Toronto.
Since 1980 I have regularly been requested to give
lectures in radiation protection trainings for medical staff, veterinary
surgeons, X-ray technicians and servicemen. I was consultant of undergraduate
students six times. NRIRR is an accredited training institution of both MSc and
postgraduate medical physics specialists’ courses and I am its project
manager.
I have got official certificates in radiation
protection. I am an expert in radiation protection in diagnostic radiology
registered by the Hungarian Ministry of Public Health. In 1993 I got a BA degree
from mental hygiene at the Hungarian
University of Physical
Education.
I am a member of the public corporation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I took part in its
some working groups dealing with radiation protection. I was a fellow of the
Hungarian Association of Medical Physicists (HAMP), member organisation of
EFOMP and IOMP. In 1998 I have been elected to be a board member of HAMP,
responsible for the area of diagnostic radiology. Since 2004 to 2009 I was the
secretary of HAMP. I am a founding member and from the beginning (2009) till 2012 a board member of the
new, independent Hungarian Society of Medical Physicists (HSMP). I am also a
member of the Hungarian Radiation Protection Association (Radiation Protection
Section of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, member organization of
IRPA), Medical Engineering Section of the National Scientific Society for
Measurement and Automation (member organization of IFMBE), MEDING National
Medical Engineering Society and the Hungarian Society of Radiologists. I am a
founding member and from the beginning (2010) the vice-secretary of its Section
of Radiation Physics, Technology and Radiation Protection and leader of the
working group “technical quality control” within this section. I am
a corresponding member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
and an associate member of the European Society of Radiology. I was a member of
the editorial board of "Radiológiai Közlemények"
(= Radiological Proceedings) (1996-2000).
I was an active member of the working groups IEC SC62B
MT 37 (radiation protection in X-ray equipment), WG 42 (safety of conventional
radiography and fluoroscopy) and MT 38 (acceptance testing) during their whole
activity, and I am a member of MT 32 (X-ray tube assemblies) till now. From
September 2010 I am also a member of MT 50 (grids). From September 2009 I am
the chairman of the Hungarian National Committee of IEC and CENELEC TC62.
I was the scientific organizing secretary of nine
Hungarian full-day scientific meetings about “Measurements on X-ray
equipment” – “Paraclinical X-ray forum” (2003-2012) and
organizing secretary of a European regional workshop on quality control,
patient dosimetry and radiation protection in diagnostic and interventional
radiology and nuclear medicine, held in 2007 in NRIRR. In 2008-2010 I was invited
lecturer at three international conferences (Poland, India and Bulgaria).
Budapest, January 27, 2013
Dr.
Tamás Porubszky
