Overview

Anees Dhabaan, PhD, is an associate professor of Medical Physics and director of the Medical Physics Residency Program in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. He has an adjunct associate professor in the Medical Physics and Nuclear Engineering Programs at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dhabaan serves as a medical physicist at the Emory Proton Therapy Center.

Dr. Dhabaan earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Birmingham, England, UK in 1994 and received his Medical Physics training at Emory University in 1999. He received his certification from American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics in 2003 and re-certification in 2013. Prior to joining Emory faculty in 2007, he served as the director of Medical Physics at DeKalb Medical Center in Atlanta, GA. His postgraduate research has included designing a blanket for nuclear fusion reactor which entailed work in the area of neutron and photon transport and the use of Monte Carlo method in tracking these particles.

As a medical physicist, he worked in various areas in the past such, as developing a numerical algorithm that simulates charged particle transport in a dense media. Dr. Dhabaan implements new technology in Radiation Oncology and leads the stereotactic radiosurgery program at Emory. His clinical work and research focuses on developing and implementing new technology in the clinic, including image-guided radiation therapy, radiosurgery, treatment planning system commissioning, linear accelerator commissioning, quality assurance programs and simulating charged particle transport in dense media utilizing Monte Carlo codes. His current research interest is proton flash therapy.

In 2010, Anees worked with the director of physics and founded the Medical Physics Residency program. He became the director until 2017. He resumed as program director in 2022. For the past 18 years, Dr. Dhabaan has played a significant role in the teaching of medical physics to graduate students, Junior Medical Physicists, Dosimetrists, MD and Physics residents. Dr. Dhabaan provides clinical physics service and participated in physics research and clinical protocols. As an adjunct associate professor in the Medical Physics program at Georgia Institute of Technology, he is a key contributor and instructor in the Georgia Tech Medical Physics Graduate Program, which is operated in collaboration with Emory University Medical Physics Faculty.

Academic Appointment

• Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Medical Physics & Nuclear Engineering Programs, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Director of Medical Physics Residency Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine

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