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Azam Niroomand-RadName: AZAM NIROOMAND-RAD

Occupation: Medical Physicist, specializing in Radiation Oncology

Born : December 2, 1947, Tehran, Iran

Education: 1978, PhD in Physics, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI
1981, Postdoc in Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI  

Certifications: 1988, ABR, Therapeutic Radiological Physics
1990, ABMP, Radiation Oncology Physics

Career:

Azam Niroomand-Rad PhD is Director of Clinical Physics in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, a Full Professor of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical School, Associate Editor of the Medical Physics Journal, and the current President of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP). She obtained her PhD in Atomic and Molecular physics from Michigan State University in 1978 and completed her post-doctoral research in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. She is board certified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and the American Board of Medical Physics, and is recognized as a Diplomat of the ABR and a Fellow of the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM).

Dr. Niroomand-Rad has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is Co-Inventor of a US Patent for designing a novel stereotactic method for treatment of spine lesions. She recently received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology. In addition to her teaching, research, and patient care activities in her department, she has been very involved in the scientific, educational, and professional activities of the AAPM (serving as Chair of the International Affairs committee and the International Scientific Exchange program) and the IOMP. She has organized many international scientific programs in the physics of radiation oncology and has been an invited speaker to many conferences. Most notably and passionately, in order to promote the status of Medical Physics worldwide, she has organized workshops and training courses in medical physics in developing countries and has helped establish several foreign national medical physics associations.

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Avocations and Special Interests:
Mountain Climbing, Hiking, Painting, Art Crafts, Swimming, Reading

Family:
Married: 1971, Hossein Hamedani (Professor of Mathematics at Marquette Univ.)
Children: 1973, Daughter, Azita Hamedani
1978, Son, Hooman Hamedani
Grandchildren: 2004, Grandson, Zadan Hamedani Mason