Michael Sheetz, clinical assistant professor of radiology in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, has been appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Advisory Committee on the Medical Use of Isotopes as the radiation safety officer representative. The committee advises the NRC on policy and technical issues that arise in the regulation of the medical use of radioactive material.
Sheetz has served as the director of the Radiation Safety Office and radiation safety officer for the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC since 2007. Prior to that, he held the positions of health physicist and senior health physicist within the Radiation Safety Office for over 25 years.
Along with his involvement in several professional and scientific societies, Sheetz serves on the Pennsylvania Radiation Protection Advisory Committee and Pennsylvania's Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee.