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Jim McInroy earned a M.Ed. in physical science from Pennsylvania State University in 1959. He taught chemistry and physics for ten years in the public school system in Pennsylvania and New York with an additional five years at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA. McInroy earned a M.S. in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1973 from Colorado State University in health physics and radiobiology. His doctoral research involved evaluation of possible exposures to the general population via the food chain, should there be an accidental release of polonium-210 during the launch of satellites containing nuclear powered electronic sources (SNAP devices). McInroy joined the Health Research Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory as project leader in 1972 following funding by the Atomic Energy Commission of the human tissue analysis program and remained in that position until his retirement in 1993. From 1979 to 1984 he was deputy group leader of Health Division's Epidemiology Group. McInroy was instrumental in the organization and establishment of the International Conference on Low Level Measurements of Actinides in Biological and Environmental Samples, as was Chairman of the Technical Planning Committee for their meetings in Sweden, Japan, India, adn Brazil. He also played an instrument role in the development fo the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) natural matrix reference materials containing metabolized actinide elements in human tissues (lungs, liver, and bone). McInroy has been a member of Sigma Xi, the Health Physics Society, the Radiation Standards Committee of the Health Physics Society, and the Bioassay, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Conference. McInroy became a member of the Human Studies Project in December 1993 and was responsible for making available all documents associated with the Human Tissue Study Project.
Excerpt from: Radiation Protection and the Human Radiation Experiments Los Alamos Science 1995, No 23; Los Alamos National Laboratory.