Madan M. Rehani
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| Nationality | India |
| Fields | Medical Physics, Medical Imaging, and Radiation Protection |
| Institutions | International Atomic Energy Agency, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| Alma mater | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Patient and staff radiation protection, patient exposure tracking, radiation and cataract, training of cardiologists and doctors using fluoroscopy |
Madan M. Rehani, PhD, is an Indian-born medical physicist.
Madan Rehani is currently Director of Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, and an Adjunct Professor at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. He worked earlier for over 11 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria. He was Professor and Head of Medical Physics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India before joining the IAEA in 2001. He was also Head of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre on Imaging Technology & Radiation Protection, which he established in 1997. He held faculty positions at different levels during1977-2001 in different medical institutes in India. He has been Secretary-General (2009-2015) and is currently Vice-President (from 2015) of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) and Secretary of the Protection in Medicine Committee of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) (from 2009). He has been a member of the ICRP since 1997. Under his chairmanship, 4 Annals of the ICRP have been published, and another 4 with him as member of the Task Group. He is Associate Editor of The British Journal of Radiology and Medical Physics and was Assistant Editor of American Journal of Roentgenology for several years.
Rehani has made contributions in patient dosimetry in over 70 countries by his actions through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He established a website on radiation protection of patients; the smart card project for tracking radiation exposures of patients; research on radiation-induced cataract in the eyes of interventional cardiologists and support staff; research on radiation safety of children in developing countries; development of training material on radiation protection; and training of doctors using fluoroscopy outside radiology (cardiologists, urologists, orthopedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, gastroenterologist, and gynecologists) from over 60 countries. He also set up the EuroSafe Imaging program by the European Society of Radiology.
During his tenure at the IAEA, a certificate was awarded to Madan Rehani to commemorate the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, which was jointly awarded to the Head of the IAEA and to the IAEA. Staff members whose work was included in the citation (e.g. “safe use of radiation” in the case of Rehani), were awarded a certificate with a copy of the original prize; the prize money was donated to a cancer fund charity.
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