Richard Swaja, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the
Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina
Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina
B.S. Physics, 1967 Carnegie Institute of Technology
M.S. Physics, 1968 University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Nuclear Science, 1973 Carnegie-Mellon University
M.S. Physics, 1968 University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Nuclear Science, 1973 Carnegie-Mellon University
Email:
Office: BSB# 612 (MUSC Campus)
Phone: 843.792.0430
Office: BSB# 612 (MUSC Campus)
Phone: 843.792.0430
Professional
Before his appointment as professor of bioengineering and director of the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina in October 2006, Dr. Swaja held many leadership positions. From 1968 to 1980, he worked as a senior scientist as the Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in areas of nuclear physics. In 1980, he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a senior research staff member to conduct research in radiobiology, radiation dosimetry, materials, and health effects. From 1988 to 1999, Dr. Swaja managed research and development programs at ORNL in areas of environmental pollutant detection and characterization, pollutant transport modeling, human health risk assessment, computational simulation and dosimetry, nuclear medicine, photonics, visual information systems, and life cycles.
He is editor of the Health Physics Society's Web site, established the International Center for Dosimetric Modeling and Computation, served as technical program chair for a series of international conferences on radiation protection and dosimetry from 1984 through 1994, and served as consultant and US representative to several international scientific committees and foreign nations for activities in health physics, radiation protection, environmental risk assessment, and emergency planning. Dr. Swaja served as the senior adviser for biomedical engineering in the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined the staff of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the NIH as senior science advisor and served an assignment as Life Sciences Division director at ORNL.
He is editor of the Health Physics Society's Web site, established the International Center for Dosimetric Modeling and Computation, served as technical program chair for a series of international conferences on radiation protection and dosimetry from 1984 through 1994, and served as consultant and US representative to several international scientific committees and foreign nations for activities in health physics, radiation protection, environmental risk assessment, and emergency planning. Dr. Swaja served as the senior adviser for biomedical engineering in the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined the staff of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the NIH as senior science advisor and served an assignment as Life Sciences Division director at ORNL.
The Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina
The Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina is a structured effort between Clemson University, the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. The alliance was approved by the S.C. Commission on Higher Education in 1985 to promote unified biomedical engineering research and education in South Carolina. It directly responds to this mandate by facilitating a well-rounded unique research and education collaboration between the three major universities in the state addressing translational research and technology related to the health of humans.
Mailing Address:
Bioengineering Alliance of SC
BSB 612
Medical Univ. of South Carolina
171 Ashley Ave.
Charleston, SC 29425
Mailing Address:
Bioengineering Alliance of SCBSB 612Medical Univ. of South Carolina171 Ashley Ave.Charleston, SC 29425
