Robbie Barish

I am a medical and health physicist in New York. For the past nine years I have specialized in designing radiation shielding for medical facilities, with over three hundred projects completed to date. I received a BS in physics and a Master of Engineering in radiological health, both from New York University. I earned a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of London’s Institute of Cancer Research. I was an Associate Professor of Radiology at NYU Medical School (1976-1991), then chief radiotherapy physicist at the Cancer Institute of St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn and Queens (1991-1999). I participated in clinical research at the Lenox Hill Heart and Cardiovascular Institute in their program of intravascular brachytherapy to prevent coronary artery restenosis. I have also been a key advocate for education of flight crewmembers about in-flight radiation. I am the author of the book The Invisible Passenger: Radiation Risks for People Who Fly. I served on the program committee for the 1998 National Council on Radiation Protection symposium on “Cosmic Radiation Exposure of Airline Crews, Passengers and Astronauts.” I am certified by American Board of Health Physics, the American Board of Radiology, and the American Board of Medical Physics and I am a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. I am also co-principal oboe and principal English horn with the Mannes College of Music Community Orchestra in New York City. In the past I was also a producer and program host on Capital Radio in London England and, for many years, was part of the live radio team at Pacifica Radio in New York City, WBAI-FM. I still drop in on Bob Fass during Radio Unnameable since the bond between all of us who go back to the days when the radio station was at 30 East 39th Street is permanent, no matter where life has taken us. Besides, Bob and my friend Steve Post taught me everything that got me on the radio in London. I'll always be grateful to them.The music on this page is from one of my favorite shows, produced in 1974 with Tom Paxton in the studio in London. Tom is one of the most honorable and decent people I have ever known.If you can relate to this song, you are very welcome as a Myspace friend, but the only way I'll add you is if you send me a personal message and actually establish yourself as a real friend - not just a Myspace link.