Radhe Mohan is a medical physicist who significantly advanced radiation treatment safety for

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patients. He is a recipient of the

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Gold Medal for outstanding contributions in the field of radiation oncology.

Career

During the 1970s, Mohan developed computer-aided systems for automated

dosimetry Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by an object, usually the human body. This applies both internally, due to ingested o ...

and record-and-verify systems. Subsequently, in the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leader in researching newer methods of radiation treatments such as 3-D conformal

radiation therapy Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radia ...

, intensity modulation radiation therapy, and in the 2000s,

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. His research activities include intensity-modulated radiotherapy, Monte Carlo techniques and image-guided radiotherapy. Dr. Mohan is the author or co-author of over 600 papers, book chapters and publications in proceedings of conferences. He has been the principal investigator, co-PI or co-investigator on numerous grants from the National Cancer Institute and research projects sponsored by industry. Mohan was the chairman of the Department of Radiation Physics at

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (colloquially MD Anderson Cancer Center) is a comprehensive cancer center in Houston, Texas. It is the largest cancer center in the U.S. and one of the original three comprehensive cancer centers ...

and is currently a principal investigator at MD Anderson researching the optimization of proton therapy. In 1983, Mohan was part of the team at the computer services department of

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which helped the F.B.I. track down one of the earliest groups of computer hackers,

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Education

In 1969, Mohan received his PhD in physics from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. Prior to that he received BS and MS degrees in physics from Punjab University. Mohan was a 1965 recipient of a

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Awards and recognition

In addition to the ASTRO award, Mohan has received the AAPM Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics (2003), the Cormack Gold Medal from the Association of Medical Physicists in India (2004), and the Failla Award from the Radiological and Medical Physics Society of New York (2009).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mohan, Radhe Living people American cancer researchers 21st-century American physicists 20th-century Indian physicists Duke University alumni University of Texas faculty University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center faculty Medical physicists 1941 births