1946         Westinghouse Science Talent Search Scholarship.  Carnegie Institute of Technology.

1950-54    U.S. Navy, LTJG, Gunnery Div. Officer, U.S. Navy 2^nd & 6^th Fleets. Exec./Admin.    Asst. US/NATO Joint Staff (War Plans Div.)

1956-58    Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Physics Department

1959-60    Lecturer, Drexel Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering Department, School of Graduate studies

1958-61    Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Radiation Laboratory

1961-64    Assistant Professor of Physics, The Colorado College

1964-67    Special Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute, University of London and the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, London, UK

1967-75    Physicist & Statistician, Penrose Cancer Hospital

1972-75    Executive Assistant and Data Manager, National Clinical Trials of Radiotherapy for Prostatic Cancer (NCI). JA del Regato, MD, Principal Investigator

1974-75    Visiting Scientist in Physics, M.D. Anderson Hospital, NCI Radiological Physics Center, Houston (Fall Semester, Sept.-Dec.)

1980-83    Expert Consultant in Statistics to United States Nuclear Radiology Commission (Empirical Models of Radiocarcinogenesis)

1986-90    Member (Biostatistics & Epidemiology Group) National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. (BEIR V Committee)

1975-present    Professor of Radiology, Head of Division of Medical Physics and Statistics, Department of Radiology, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine

1993-present    Director of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core Unit, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine

1996-present    Chairman, Sickle Cell Center Statistical Support Group, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine

Chairman, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) First Midyear Topical Symposiu,, "Multiple Regression Analysis: Applications in the Health Sciences." 12-16 March 1984, Mobile, AL. (NCI Grant No. 1R13CA37017-01).

Chairman, AAPM Biological Effects Committee, 1985-91

Chairman, AAPM Biological Effects Committee, Task Group #1, "Evaluation of Models of Dose-Response in Radiation Oncology" 1984-91.

Chairman, AAPM Statistics Committee, 1990-present.

Chairman, AAPM Biological Effects Committee, Task Group #5, "The Design of Experiments in Radiation Biology."  1992-Present.

Chairman, AAPM Biological Effects Committee, Task Group #7, "Complexity Theory."  1992-Present.

Associate Editor, Medical Physics, 1986-92.

Co-Editor, Multiple Regression Analysis:  Applications in the Health Sciences.  Proceedings of the AAPM First Midyear Topical Symposium.  AAPM Monograph 13.  AIP.  NY.  1986 (with Raymond H. Myers).

Co-Chairman, (and Co-Editor of Proceedings) of the 2nd (1984) International Conference on Dose, Time, and Fractionation in          Radiation Oncology.  University of Wisconsin.  Madison, Wi.

Co-Chairman (and Co-Editor of Proceedings) Ibid 3rd (1998).

Co-Chairman (and Co-Editor of Proceedings) Ibid 4th (1992).

Co-Chairman (and Co-Editor of Proceedings) Ibid 5th (1997).

Chairman, USA/AAPM One-Day Workshop, "Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine:  An Introduction," April 29, 1995.  Mobile, AL.

Fellow, American Association of Physicist in Medicine, 1995.

Editor, Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine: An Introduction.   Proceedings of the USA/AAPM One-Day Workshop.  April 29, 1995.  Mobile, AL. Amer.  Inst.  Phys.  Conf.  Proc. 376.  NY.  1996.

AAPM/IPEM International Travel Award 1997-1998.  Visiting Lectureship (three-week lecture tour in the United Kingdom:  Universities and Hospitals of London, Cambridge, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Manchester).  Presented a series of lectures on topics in statistical modelling, technology assessment (including clinical trials and meta-analysis), and nonlinear dynamics.

Publications (since 1993):

Herbert, D.E. Modelling the Effectiveness of Radiation Treatment (Chapter 9).  IN:   Biomedical Uses in Radiation.  W. Hendee, ed. 95 pages (In Press - to be published by VCH Pub. 1998)

Herbert, D.E.   Nonlinear Dynamics and Human Physiology.  A Review of the Workshop.  IN:  Volume and Kinetics in Tumor Control and Normal Tissue Complications.  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dose, Time, and Fractionation in Radiation Oncology.  Madison, WI.  September 1997.  AIP Press.  NY.  1998.  14 pages (In Press).

Paliwal, B., Fowler, J., Herbert, D. E. and Kinsella, T.  eds.  Volume and Kinetics in Tumor Control and Normal Tissue Complications.  Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Conf.  on Dose, Time, and Fractionation in Radiation Oncology.  Madison, WI.  1997.  AIP. NY.  1998 (In Press).

Herbert, D. E., editor.  Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine:   An Introduction.  AIP Conference Proc.  376.  Woodbury, NY.   1996.

Herbert DE. The Bivariate Probit Model of Uncomplicated Control of Tumor. A Heuristic Exposition of the Methodology. Intl J Radia Oncol. Biol Phys 1997;39:213-225.

Herbert DE. The Use of the Linear-Quadratic Model in Clinical Radiation Oncology Can Be Defended on the Basis of Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Argument. (Point/Counterpoint). Med Phys 1997;24(8):1245-48.

Herbert DE. Letter to the Editor: Comment on "Point/Counterpoint: The Use of the Linear-Quadratic Model in Clinical Radiation Oncology can be Defended on the Basis of Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Argument." Med Phys 1997;24(8):1329.

Herbert DE. Overview of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Complexity Theory. In Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine. An Introduction. 1-34, DE Herbert, ed. Proc of the One-Day Workshop held in Mobile, AL. April 29, 1995. AIP Press. Woodbury, NY. 1996.

Herbert DE. Book Review. Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty. J. Rosser Matthews. Princeton University Press. NJ. 1995. Physics Today 1996;49:64.

Herbert DE. Book Review. Dynamical Disease: Mathematical Analysis of Human Illness. Edited by J. Belair, L. Glass, U. An Der Heiden, and J. Milton. AIP Press. NY. 1996. Health Phys 1996; 70:120-121.

Herbert DE. Book Review. Fractal Physiology. J.B. Bassingthwaighte, L.S. Liebovitch, and B.J. West. Oxford University Press. NY. 1994. Med Phys 1996;23:993-996.

Herbert DE. Book Review. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. S.H. Strogatz. Addison-Wesley Pub. Reading, MA. 1994. Med Phys 1996;23:993-996.

Herbert DE. Another Way to Keep Score. Amer. Assn. Of Physicists in Med. Newsletter. 1994;19(5):6-8.

Ytrehus K, Y Liu, A Tsuchida, T Mirua, GS Liu, X Yang, DE herbert, M Cohen, and J Downey. Rat and Rabbit Heart Infarction: Effects of Anesthesia, Perfusate, Risk Zone, and Method Infarct Sizing. Amer J Physiol 1994;267:H2383-H2390.

Herbert DE. Federal Agencies Desire Physicist’s Cooperation. AAPM Newsletter. 1994;19(4):17.

Cotter G, C Lariscy, C Ellingwood, and DE Herbert. Inoperable Indobrachial Obstructing Lung Carcinoma Treated With Combined Endobronchial and External Beam Irradiation: A Dosimetric Analysis. Intl J Radia Oncol Biol Phys 1993;27:531-535.

Quality Assessment and Improvement of Dose Response Models. Some Effects of Study Weaknesses on Study Findings. "C’est Magnifique?" AAPM Biological Effects Committee Task Group 1 Report. DE Herbert, Chairman (and prinicipal author), A Feldman, E Krishnan, C Orton, J Ovadia, B Paliwal, T Schultheiss, P Shrivastava, A Smith, M Stovall & L Cohen (Consultant). (337 pages and 153 figures) American Association of Physicist in Medicine Report No. 43. Med. Phys. Pub. Madison, WI. 1993.

Herbert DE. Time Factors in Human Tumors: What Do We Know – And When Did We Know It? How We Can Learn From Data (or Fail to)? In Prediction of Response in Radiation Therapy: Radiosensitivity and Repopulation. 169-214. B Paliwal, D Herbert, J Fowler, and T Kinsella, eds. AAPM Sympo. Proc. No. 9 Amer. Inst. Phys. NY. 1993.

Herbert DE. Overview of Some Useful Concepts, Methods, and Criteria New to Radiobiological Modelling: 1) Bivariate Probit Models of Probability of Uncomplicated Local Control of Tumor. 2) An Example of the Use of the Stein Effect. Ibid. 235-261.