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Dr David H. Sliney
Dr David H. Sliney
Dr. David H. Sliney holds a Ph.D. in biophysics and medical physics from the University of London (Institute of Ophthalmology), an M.S. in physics and radiological health from Emory University and a B.S. in physics in from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
From 1965 to 1995 he was Chief of the Laser Branch, Laser Microwave Division, of the US Army Environmental Hygiene Agency at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
With the creation of the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in 1995, he became Program Manager, Laser/Optical Radiation Program. He has been active in the establishment of health and safety standards for protection of the eye and skin from lasers and high‑intensity optical sources.
He is a sub‑committee chairman on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Committee Z‑136, Safe Use of Lasers, and serves on the ANSI Committee for RP-27, Photobiological Safety of Lamps and Lighting Systems. He is chairman of the Safety Committee of the Laser Institute of America. He was an editor of the scientific journal, Health Physics from 1976 to 1986 and is currently an associate editor of Photochemistry and Photobiology and has served on the editorial boards of Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, and Annals of Ophthalmology and Glaucoma. He has published over 250 scientific papers on subjects related to laser and optical hazards and laser applications in medicine and surgery. He received a Fulbright‑Hayes Fellowship to lecture at an International Summer School on Radiation Protection, held in Herceg‑Novi, Yugoslavia, in 1976.
Dr. Sliney was chairman of the Physical Agents Committee of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (1987-1997). He has also served as a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization at several meetings relating to lasers, RF, magnetic fields and infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and coauthored a 1,000‑page book: Sliney and Wolbarsht, "Safety with Lasers and Other Optical Sources," Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, 1980. He also co-authored a book: Sliney and Trokel, "Medical Lasers and Their Safe Use," Springer-Verlag, New York in 1992.
He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Photobiology, the Health Physics Society, the International Commission on Occupational Health, the International Occupational Hygiene Association, the Society of Photo‑Optical Instrumentation Engineers, the European Society of Photobiology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery and the American Welding Society. He serves as a US delegate to the Committee TC‑76, "Lasers," of the International Electrotechnical Commission and is Convener of Working Group 1 of that committee. Dr. Sliney served three four-year terms as a member of the International Commission on Non‑Ionizing Radiation Protection (1991-2003), and continues as a member of the Standing Committee IV, Optical Radiation. He is currently a director, and is a past-chairman of the Laser Safety Committee of the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, a member of the Laser Safety Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and chairman of the Laser Safety Committee of the Optical Society of America. He served as cochairman of the 1976 and 1984 Gordon Conferences on Lasers in Medicine and Biology. He was a member (1982‑1985) of the Technical Electronic Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He was a member and past chairman of the Research Advisory Committee of the Lighting Research Institute (1980-1995), and was a member of the Panel on Impact of Video Viewing on Vision of Workers, Committee on Vision, National Research Council, 1981‑83. He is past chairman of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Committee on Non‑Ionizing Radiation. He is Director of Division 6 (Photobiology) of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE). He received the Department of the Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service in 1978. He was elected to three four-year terms (1992-2004) to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP). In 2005 he was awarded the George M. Wilkening Award and the Schawlow Award of the Laser Institute of America.