Andrew Karellas, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR

Andrew Karellas, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR is Professor Emeritus of Medical Imaging at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine-Tucson. Dr. Karellas joined the Department of Medical Imaging as the Director of Biomedical Imaging Innovation and Clinical Translation in Next-Gen CT and Vice Chair of Faculty Development. Prior to arriving in Arizona, Dr. Karellas was a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dr. Karellas received his PhD from UCLA in Medical Physics. He has been Professor of Radiology, Hematology and Oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and the Acting Vice-Chair for Research at the Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine.  Dr. Karellas is certified in Diagnostic Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Karellas has received numerous honors and awards. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (2012), a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2001), and a member of Sigma Xi (1984). He received a Dedicated Service Recognition Award as a Deputy Editor for Medical Physics, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Upstate New York Association of Physicists in Medicine, and a Lifetime Service Award from the American Board of Radiology. He was also recognized as an “SPIE Senior Member,” a distinction awarded for his significant contributions, active involvement, and service to the general optics and photonics community and his contributions to relevant technologies.

Dr. Karellas holds patents for Quantitative Radiographic Imaging Systems and Digital and Tomosynthesis Imaging and is the recipient of several research support grants from NIH.