Division of Medical Physics

We are at the forefront of the ever-evolving medical physics landscape in clinical care, education, and research.

Overview

Medical physicists work with the MIMI phantom for imaging quality assurance.

By providing the highest quality of care for our patients while developing novel approaches to improve patient outcomes, we strive to be at the forefront of the ever-evolving medical physics landscape in clinical care, education, and research.

The Division of Medical Physics is a dynamic clinical, education and research focused group within the Department of Radiation Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute. In addition to providing multifaceted care to the patients we serve, we teach comprehensive medical physics courses for MD residents, medical physics residents, graduate students, dosimetry and therapy students.

Education

Our internationally renowned clinical and basic science faculty and staff provide training for prospective medical physicists and medical dosimetrists.

Medical Physics Residency

Image of medical physics residents in treatment room.

Dosimetry Training

Emory dosimetrist Tosin Kayode views monitors.

Radiation Therapy Training

Research

Our team is dedicated to the pursuit of innovative and applied thinking. We're finding solutions for clinical challenges through the development, implementation, and testing of novel technologies.

Deep Biomedical Imaging Laboratory

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Deformable Image Registration Laboratory

Faculty & Staff

Our faculty and staff are committed to teaching and training the next generation of world class leaders and scientists in radiation oncology.

Meet Our Medical Physicists

Emory radiation oncology medical physicists

Global Outreach

Recently, our team assisted radiation oncologists at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with commissioning of the country's first modern linear accelerator.

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Winship medical physicists with Ethiopian colleagues.

Division News

Winship medical physicists present at AAPM July 17, 2020

Nearly 25 abstracts by faculty and residents from Winship Cancer Institute and Emory's Department of Radiation Oncology were featured at the 2020 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Joint Virtual Meeting.

Yang awarded the AAPM John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award January 24, 2020

Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, director of the Medical Physics Residency Program in the Department of Radiation Oncology, was recently awarded the American Association of Physicists in Medicine John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award.

Castillo awarded $2.9 million R01 grant December 5, 2019

Richard Castillo, PhD, DABR, a medical physicist and investigator in Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology, has been awarded a $2.9 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute.