BRIDGTON — Dr. Douglas Dransfield from the Maine Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility will speak to the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary about nuclear weapons disarmament and treaties currently being considered for ratification by the U.S. Senate. Dransfield will present “Steps to Safety” at the Rotary meeting at 7:15 a.m. Thursday, June 3, at the Bridgton Alliance Church, 368 Harrison Road.

Dransfield’s talk will briefly review nuclear weapons testing and the medical importance of preventing the spread of radioactive material. He will also discuss the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that is in review at the United Nations and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, which is now being reviewed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Dransfield is one of the original members of the Maine Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility when it formed in the early 1980s. He became a physician by graduating from the College of Wooster in Ohio and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, serving a pediatric residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and then completing a neonatology fellowship at University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

He is now a retired pediatrician having been a member of the Maine Medical Center’s Pediatric Department for over 25 years. The first 20 of those years was as a neonatologist in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. He lives in Cape Elizabeth with Gail, his wife of 40 years.

All are welcome to attend the meeting.