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Dr. Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE is a Persian-American medical physicist. He is a tenured Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He serves as the Director of the Duke Medical Physics Graduate Program and the Director of the Clinical Imaging Physics Group. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology, and is a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the International Society of Optics and Phtonics (SPIE), and the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is a Councilor of the National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), and a Distinguished Investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research. He was the founder or co-founder of the Duke Medical Physics Program, the Duke Imaging Physics Residency Program, the Duke Clinical Imaging Physics Group, and the Society of Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs (SDAMPP). He has held senior leadership positions in the AAPM, SPIE, SDAMPP, and RSNA. 

Dr. Samei’s interests and expertise include x-ray imaging, theoretical imaging models, simulation methods, and experimental techniques in medical image formation, analysis, assessment, and perception.  His current research includes methods to develop image quality and dose metrics that are clinically relevant and that can be used to design and utilize advanced imaging techniques towards optimum interpretive and quantitative performance. He further has an active interest in bridging the gap between scientific scholarship and clinical practice, in the meaningful realization of translational research, and in clinical processes that are informed by scientific evidence. Those include advanced imaging performance characterization, procedural optimization, and radiomics in retrospective clinical dose and quality analytics. He has mentored over 100 trainees (graduate and postgraduate). He has over 900 scientific publications including over 240 referred journal articles. He has been the recipient of 34 grants as Principle Investigator reflecting $13M of extramural funding.