Richard W. Hornung
Dr. Richard W. Hornung, DrPH, is Director of Biostatistics and Data Management of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Division of General and Community Pediatrics in 2005. He served on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) as a member of the Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC). He was Senior Research Associate and Director of the Division of Biostatistical Research and Support in the Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center from 1998-2005. He has served in 1996 as a member of the White House Committee on Revisions to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Since 1990, he has served as an advisor on the National Research Council. He received numerous awards, including the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) award for "Sustained High Level Performance in the Field of Biostatistics." He was a consultant to the National Academy of Science (NAS) Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR IV). He is a reviewer for over 20 scientific journals. His peer-reviewed publications deal with exposure assessment methods, lung cancer risk in Uranium miners, dose assessments, dose reconstruction, development of models for use in estimating exposures to a number of pollutants, including radon, diesel exhaust, benzene, ethylene oxide, and arsenic, among others. In the area of radiation research, he is currently involved with the University of Kentucky to serve as the scientific director of an occupational epi study of workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. He is also involved with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as the biostatistician on a study of radiation related cancers among residents living near the Fernald plant in Southwestern Ohio. Dr. Hornung has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Dayton, an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Kentucky, and a DrPH in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina.