K&S Associates, Inc

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K & S Associates, Incorporated is a privately owned precision calibration laboratory offering a full range of specialized radiation measurement calibrations for medical, nuclear, and industrial applications. Company History K&S was founded in 1974 by Bob King and Tom Slowey as an organization to provide Medical Physics consultation services. Bob came to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1967 having several years experience at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a staff physicist. Bob received his Master of Science degree from Vanderbilt University and was appointed Director of the Division of Physics and Biomedical Engineering of the Department of Radiology in 1970. Tom came to Vanderbit University in 1969 as a junior in an undergraduate engineering program after receiving two years of credit from the University of Tennessee extension in Nashville. Tom was hired by the Division of Radiation Therapy to train as an assistant physicist and to maintain a Varian Clinac 6, a Cobalt 60 unit, a treatment planning computer and a dose scanner. Tom received a BE in electronic engineering from Vanderbilt in 1970 and was appointed Associate Director of the Division of Physics in 1971. Tom and Bob provided consulting services to area institutions and physicians in diagnostic and therapy physics over the period from 1971 to 1974 while members of the faculty and staff of Vanderbilt University Medical School. After K&S was formed in 1974, Bob remained at Vanderbilt while Tom resigned from Vanderbilt and managed the consultation services with two physics technologists and a dosimetrist, Vivian Denton. Vivian trained at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in dosimetry and maintains her registry as a radiologic technologist and as a radiation therapist. Vivian is now Vice President and Quality Manager. The business started by providing a full range of services including radiological compliance evaluations of diagnostic x-ray units, nuclear medicine services, personnel monitoring, treatment planning services, linear accelerator maintenance, diagnostic and therapy shielding design service, survey meter calibration, calibrations of radiation therapy units and license preparation. The business grew slowly during the first few years. In 1978, Bob became interested in other business activities and sold his interest in K&S to Tom. By the early 1980's, K&S was serving over 100 institutions in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi and was providing clinical medical physics and treatment planning consulting services to local area cancer centers. In October 1981, Victoreen Instrument Company suspended operation as an Accredited Dosimetry Calibration Laboratory (ADCL) accredited by the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM). ADCL's provide precision radiation instrument calibrations for medical institutions which are directly traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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