Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Chief Physicist at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD.  His research interests are in medical imaging, particularly in areas of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), interventional fluoroscopy and digital mammography. Current research includes patient dose evaluation during MDCT, radiation dose measurement and optimization of clinical protocols in MDCT. He teaches diagnostic radiological physics to the radiology residents and lectures on on CT, fluoroscopy and other medical physics topics. As chief physicist, he oversees the quality assurance program for the diagnostic radiology that includes maintaining compliance with regard to state and federal regulations and ensuring safe use of radiation to patients. He often provides counsels to patients concerned over their radiation exposure from diagnostic x-ray examinations.

Dr Mahesh is board certified from the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiological physics and a member of the Radiation Control Advisory Board for the State of Maryland. His editorial activities include, Contributing Editor for RadioGraphics, Editorial Advisory Panel Member for American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), Editoral Board Member and Physics Column Co-Editor for Journal of American College of Radiology (JACR), Editor of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Newsletter. He serves as the Chair of the AAPM/RSNA Physics Tutorials and Chair of International Scientific Exchange Programs at AAPM. He also serves as the councilor-at-large for the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Chair of the Physics Panel for ACR-Diagnostic X-ray In-Training examination and Phantom Reviewer for ACR accreditation programs in Mammography CT and MRI. Prior joining Hopkins, Dr Mahesh obtained his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from Wisconsin.

Currently, he is the member of Scientific Committee (SC 6-2) at the National Council of Radiation Protection (NCRP) investigating the medical radiation doses to the United States Population. He was recently invited as UN-IAEA expert lecturer at the Radiation Protection for Cardiologists meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr Mahesh also serves as a Scholar for Gerson Lehrman Group, an independent primary research firm serving business and investment leads in North America, Asia and Europe..

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