Srinivasan Vedantham, PhD - AAPM Fellow

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is pleased to announce that Dr. Srinivasan Vedantham, Ph.D. has been elected a Fellow of the Association. 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 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Washington, DC on August 1, 2016. Srinivasan Vedantham received his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Emory University and subsequently joined the UMass Chan Medical School, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Radiology. He has served AAPM as the Annual Meeting Scientific Program Director for the imaging and the joint imaging-therapy tracks and serves on the Board of Associate Editors for the Medical Physics Journal. He is a member of AAPM Task Group 245. He has served as continuing education course faculty at the annual meetings of the Radiological Society of North America. He is actively involved in research on breast cancer imaging and neurointerventional imaging and has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals. For a full list of AAPM Award recipients, please visit http://www.aapm.org/org/history

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine is an organization of 8,500 medical physicists, in 93 countries, and supports the Medical Physics community with a focus on advancing patient care through education, improving safety and efficacy of radiation oncology and medical imaging procedures through research, and the maintenance of professional standards.

AAPM Announcement (PDF)