[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 80 (Thursday, May 31, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E913]
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           IN RECOGNITION AND HONOR OF DOCTOR WILLIAM UHLAND

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                           HON. W. TODD AKIN

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 31, 2012

  Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor Doctor 
William Uhland.
  Dr. William Uhland grew up in the town of Arbuckle, California, which 
at the time had a population of 800. When he was fifteen, his father 
died, and he went to work to support his mother and younger brother. 
After graduating high school, he went on to earn a bachelors degree 
from Chico State University, a masters degree from San Jose State 
University, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
  Dr. Uhland is a nuclear chemist who is involved in the production and 
research of radiopharmaceuticals. For the past decade he has been with 
Covidien-Mallinckrodt, at their plant in Maryland Heights, Missouri. 
This plant has six cyclotrons, capable of accelerating protons up to 30 
MeV kinetic energy. Several times a year he travels to the Covidien-
Mallinckrodt plant in Petten, Holland, where they have two cyclotrons 
and a nuclear reactor.
  At these facilities he is busy ensuring that the badly needed supply 
of radiopharmaceuticals is available to the hospitals and nuclear 
pharmacies. He is involved with the production of such essential drugs 
as thallium-201 for cardiac imaging, indium-111 for tumor detection, 
gallium-67 for tumor and infection detection, iodine-123 for thyroid 
imaging, iodine-131 for thyroid therapy, and molybdenum-99 to be used 
for technetium-99m generators (aka ``Moly Kows''). In addition to this, 
he is currently involved in the production of a new 
radiopharmaceutical, which is proprietary at this time. Dr. Uhland's 
contributions also include eight text-books on chemistry and physics 
(REA Press, Piscataway, New Jersey), and eight patents.
  He and his wife, Dr. Elaine T. Jurkowski, are also active in their 
community. They are active in their parish, Incarnate Word, where they 
are lectors, Eucharistic ministers, and deliver Holy Communion to the 
ill and elderly. They are also members of the Wellness Ministry, 
Bereavement Ministry, and Disability Ministry. Dr. Uhland provides free 
tutoring in mathematics and science to students in high school and 
college. Some of these youngsters are first generation college 
attendees from single parent families.
  Dr. Uhland is a shining example of the innovation, scholarship and 
leadership that we have in Missouri. I thank Dr. Uhland for his service 
to his community, the St. Louis region and the nation. I ask my 
colleagues to join me in recognition of his contributions.

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