“Crafting technology solutions for accurate diagnosis and treatment”
Conduct basic and translational research & education that will lead to new applications of physics for diagnosis and treatment of disease, by focusing on novel imaging & therapy systems and methods. We are committed to developing tools that will benefit the health of patients in our community and worldwide. Our focus is at the intersection of discovery in technological innovations that can positively affect healthcare, working side-by-side with academic clinical researchers and translating inventions into commercial development.
Train new generations of medical physicists who will conduct leading research, clinical physics and instruction in health care, using our premiere facilities, laboratories, and training centers. The training intentionally mixes the largest cohort of medical physics graduate students with medical students, residents, technologists, and undergraduate students throughout the UW–Madison campus and worldwide, to create a continuum of experiences.
Provide leading services to clinical and scientific communities by embedding our people into departments and centers such as radiology, radiation oncology, cardiology, surgery, the Waisman Center, the Carbone Cancer Center, and the Wisconsin National Primate Center. Service centers have been developed in areas such as a nationally accredited Radiation Calibration Lab, a DoE-funded radionuclide production service in the Cyclotron Lab, and our Section of Clinical Imaging Physics.