Mehran Zaini

Dr. Zaini has been a CEO, professor, scientist, entrepreneur, and engineer in federal government, academia, medical practice, hospitals, industry, and scientific groups. He has taught students from fourth graders and high schoolers to technical, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate scholars and physicians for many years in a variety of subjects for more than 40 years. He has also mentored dozens of students in research and clinical experimentation in various hospitals, research laboratories, and academic institutions for the past 30+ years.

Academic Achievements

Ph.D. and M.S. in Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin – Madison

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

Board Certified in Therapeutic Medical Physics by the American Board of Radiology

Graduate and Undergraduate Certificates in Mathematics and Business Management

 

Research Interests

Accelerator physics, Radiation transport theory and detection

Integral transforms in mathematical physics

Mathematical image processing and analysis in radiation medicine

 

Accomplishments and Honors

Principal — Toponix, LLC

CEO and President Emeritus — Northwest Medical Physics Center

Chair — World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

President — Northwest Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Accreditation — Secured the first non-academic national residency accreditation

Associate editor (guest) and Reviewer — Journal of Medical Physics

Reviewer — Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Reviewer — AAPM national and local conferences

Prize — Congress of Medical Physics

Commendation — Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

Grant — National Institutes of Health

Inclusion — Work appeared in the Code of Federal Regulations

Clearance — Confidential Federal Security Clearance

Various other Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

J. M. Fagerstrom , T. A. D. Brown , D. G. Kaurin, S. Mahendra , M. M. Zaini, “Overview of medical physics education and research programs in a nonacademic environment,” J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023;e14124 (2023).

M. M. Zaini , J. M. Fagerstrom, E. I. Marshall, K. M. Hedrick, D. Zaks, H. Tran, T. M. Fitzgerald, “Therapeutic radiation beam output and energy variation across clinics, technologies, and time”, J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023;24:e13945 (2023).

M. R. Zaini, G. J. Forest, D. D. Loshek, “Image processing for IMRT QA dosimetry”, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 6(4), 14-21 (2005).

M. Sajjad, M. R. Zaini, J-S. Liow, D.A. Rottenberg, S. C. Strother, “Production and dosimetry of [14O]H2O for PET activation studies”, Applied Radiation Isotopes 57(5), 607-615 (2002).

M. R. Zaini , S. C. Strother, J. R. Anderson, J-S. Liow, U. Kjems, C. Tegeler, S-G. Kim, “Comparison of matched BOLD and FAIR 4.0T-fMRI with [15O]water PET brain volumes”, Medical Physics 26(8), 1559-1567 (1999).

M. R. Zaini, B. R. Thomadsen, D. W. Pearson, B. R. Paliwal, “Measuring the electron fluence of clinical accelerators”, Radiation Measurements 27(3), 511-521 (1997).

B. R. Paliwal, M. R. Zaini, T. McNutt, E. J. Fairbanks, R. Kitchen, “A consistency monitor for radiation therapy treatments”, Medical Physics 23(10), 1805-1807 (1996).

M. R. Zaini, “Measuring the fluence of clinical electron beams”, Medical Physics Publishing, ISBN: T39, 186 pp (1995).