The ORSS personnel offers the following services for the UMDNJ Newark Campus. Our staff is equipped to answer any questions you may have, however to accommodate our customers, the following is a break down of each of our ORSS staff general responsibilities. In addition, we have provided the staff email addresses for your convenience.

Prasad Neti Ph.D., Acting Interim Director
Radiation Safety Officer
Particle Accelerator Safety Officer
Laser Safety Officer
New Jersey Medical School Room A534
Phone: (973) 972-6019 or (973) 972-5305
Fax: (973) 972-6498

Emergency Cellular: (973) 747-8506
E-mail: netipv@umdnj.edu

• Participates in education and safety programs for employees throughout UMDNJ Newark campus and oversees investigators, physicians, and other researchers.

• Develops the Radiation Safety Quality Assurance and Procedure Manual
• Ensures compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and guidelines of regulatory agencies

• Investigation and analysis of incidents and badge exposures
• Oversees waste management program, radiation safety and patient surveys.

• Serves as an advisor to responsible administrative officers of different units in regards to design of facilities where radioisotopes and/or x-ray producing equipment is used.

Jinsy Babu (JB), Health Physicist
Phone: (973) 972-5305 or (973) 972-5306
babuji@umdnj.edu

• • Investigation & analysis of incidents and Occupational Radiation Exposures
• • Iodine-131 Outpatient Survey and Counseling
• • Collection of Radioactive Liquid and Solid Waste
  • Decay on-site disposal through external vendor
  • Lab Audits & surveys (UH & MSB)
  • Iodine-131/125 Inpatient/Out-patient counseling and surveys
  • High Dose Remote (HDR) afterloader source exchange (Radiation Oncology)
• • Decommissioning of laboratories• Security Checks and Lead Apron Surveys
• • Radiation Oncology auditing

Sabya Ganguly, Radiation Safety Technologist
Phone: (973) 972-5305 or (973) 972-5306
• Inspection of Labs and Wipe Test Surveys
• Survey incoming Radioactive Material Packages for Licensees
• Decommissioning of laboratories
• Iodination procedures, updates inventory, survey common/cold rooms
• Urinalysis and Daily Calibration counts on liquid scintillation counters

Corisa Mobley, Administrative Assistant
Phone: (973) 972-5305 or (973) 972-5306
mobleyco@umdnj.edu
• Coordinates all Radiation Safety Program trainings
• Maintains the radioactive licenses for UMDNJ Principal Investigators
• Maintains the Non-Human Use and Human-Use applications
• Approval of radioactive material orders

Dr. Sivakumar Munisamy, Ph.D., Radiation Safety Technologist
Phone: 973-972-5305 / 5306 or 973-573-6734
munisasi@umdnj.edu

•Integrity test for incoming radioactive packages and release to Licensees
•Calibrations/Servicing of portable radiation survey meters
•Inspections of Labs, audit and surveys
•Iodination procedures and update monthly RAM inventories
•Daily and weekly calibrations of LSC and gamma counters
•Participate in radiations safety dosimeter program
•Lead Apron integrity test and maintain the training program database

Venugopal Reddy, Health Physicist
ICPH – Radiation Safety Satellite office
225 Warren Street Room W130W Newark campus
Phone: (973) 972-9109 or Fax: (973) 972-9110
reddyv1@umdnj.edu
• Calibration/Servicing of Portable Radiation Surveys (GM Counters)
• Survey incoming Radioactive Material Packages for Licensees
• Collection of Radioactive Solid Waste
• Inspection of Labs and Wipe Test Surveys

• PET CT gamma counter calibration and linearity check of dose calibrator

Lowell Charles Thelin, Health Physicist
Phone: (973) 972-5305 or (973) 972-5306
thelinlc@umdnj.edu
• NJDEP X-ray producing equipment registrations, surveys, and dispositions
• Iodine-131 Outpatient Survey and Counseling
• Mark I Gamma Irradiator Training
• Lab Audits (UH and DOC Nuclear Medicine/PET CT)
• Maintains all NJDEP X-ray producing equipment files

Donald Varga , Radiation Safety Technologist
Phone: (973) 972-5305 or (973) 972-5306
vargadc@umdnj.edu

• Radiation Safety Dosimetry Program for all UMDNJ radiation workers & support Staff
• Maintaining & updating of university-wide Internal dose records
• Investigation & analysis of incidents and Occupational Radiation Exposures

• Inspection of Labs and Wipe Test Surveys
• Calibration/Servicing of Portable Radiation Surveys (GM Counters)