NEW IOMP OFFICERS 2012-2015

Dr Kin Yin Cheung is the Senior Medical Physicist, Department of Medical Physics & Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. He was the President of the Hong Kong Association of Medical Physics and the Founder-President of AFOMP (Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics). He has served as Chairman of IOMP Professional Relations Committee.
He has been actively involved in a number of projects aiming to raise the standard of practice and professional status of medical physicists on a global basis, particularly on education and training and professional certification or registration issues. He strongly believes that IOMP should continue strengthening her efforts on these issues, particularly in developing countries, through partnership with international organizations such as IAEA and WHO and national and regional professional organizations.

President:
Kin-Yin Cheung


Dr Slavik D. Tabakov, FIPEM, is Programme Director of the courses MSc Medical Engineering&Physics and MSc Clinical Sciences of King’s College London, UK. He is Consultant Medical Physicist at the Dept. Medical Eng. and Physics, King’s College Hospital, and is Reader in King’s College London and Visiting Professor at University of Plovdiv and Medical University Plovdiv. Dr Tabakov is leading developer, with project co-authors, of the concept of e-Learning in Medical Physics and the first e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics with related Multilingual Dictionary of Terms in 29 Languages. He is author and co-author of 8 books and e-books, 5 CDs with Image databases, 3 teaching web sites and about 100 papers. The internatioanl projects EMERALD and EMIT which he coordinated received the EU Award for Education - Leonardo da Vinci Award. Dr Tabakov has helped the establishment of many MSc courses and has been Director of the MSc Medical Radiation Physics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria and of the ICTP Medical Physics College, Trieste, Italy. Dr Tabakov has served various IOMP Committees and has been Chair of the Education and Training Committee, Awards and Honours Committee and IOMP Treasurer. In 2006 he received the IOMP Harold Johns Medal.

VICE-President:
SLAVIK TABAKOV


Dr Madan M. Rehani is currently working as Radiation Safety Specialist in Radiation Protection of Patients Unit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, since Dec. 2001. Earlier he was Professor & Head, Medical Physics Unit in the Cancer Hospital of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India and also Head of the Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Imaging Technology & Radiation Protection which he established. He was the founding President of the Association of Medical Physicists of India (UPDEL Chapter) during 1990-94. He was President, Society of Nuclear Medicine, India, 2001. Dr Rehani has served on various IOMP committees and has been IOMP Secretary General during the past term of office. In 2009 he received the IOMP Harold Johns Medal.

Secretary-General:
Madan M. Rehani


Dr Krisanachinda is Former Head, Section of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is founding member and current President of SEAFOMP. She is also founder and President of the Medical Physics Club of Thailand and is also Treasurer of AFOMP. Dr Anchali Krisanachinda has taken part in several IOMP Committees and has chaired Education and Training Committee. Dr Anchali has helped the establishment of Medical Physics in a number of countries in South-East Asia and has taken part in many international projects of the IAEA. She coordinated the EMITEL Thai Medical Physics Dictionary.

Treasurer:
A. Krisanachinda


Prof. Nüsslin has been elected IOMP President in 2006. Previously he has chaired IOMP Awards and Honours and Rules Committees. He has also been President of EFOMP. Before retirement he was Professor and Chair of the Section Biomedical Physics at the University of Tübingen. Currently he is at the Technische Universität München, working in radiation therapy physics and molecular imaging and is a member of the research cluster 'Munich Advanced Photonics'.

PAST PRESIDENT:
Fridtjof Nuesslin