Winship medical physicist and researcher Richard Castillo, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at Emory University School of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
August 1, 2024
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University medical physicist and researcher Richard Castillo, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at Emory University School of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The category of Fellow honors members who have distinguished themselves by their contributions in research, education, or leadership in the medical physics community.
The award was presented at the 2024 AAPM 66th Annual Meeting & Exhibition on July 22, 2024.
Dr. Castillo received his MS and PhD in medical physics from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and became ABR board-certified in 2016. He is the founding director of the accredited Emory Certificate Program in Medical Physics and is active in national service initiatives, including as a standing member of the NIH Imaging and Technology Development Study Section and a member of the NIH Early Investigator Advancement Program. He mentors early-stage and new investigators and chairs the AAPM Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee, Radiation Dosimetry and Treatment Planning Subcommittee, and the AAPM Hispanic and Latinx Medical Physics Subcommittee. Since 2017, Dr. Castillo has served on the editorial board for the Red Journal and was a board member at-large for the Society for Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs.