Slavik Tabakov

Slavik Tabakov
Slavik Tabakov PhD, Dr h.c., FIPEM, FHEA, FIOMP, Hon. Prof.
Nationality	British and Bulgarian
Fields	Medical Physics
Institutions	IOMP, King's College London
Alma mater	Technical University, Sofia
Known for	Work in e-learning in medical physics

Slavik Tabakov (Bulgarian: Славик Табаков) is a British-Bulgarian medical physicist, President of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP). He has made significant contributions to the development and global dissemination of medical physics education and training and has pioneered e-learning in the profession.

Slavik Tabakov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria to a family of medical doctors. He gained a college education in Plovdiv and left with a Distinction from the Technical University, Sofia. In 1981 he took an academic position at the Plovdiv Medical University.

In 1991 he joined the Department of Medical Engineering and Physics, King's College Hospital. Since 2001 he has been the Director of the MSc programmes in King’s College London: MSc Medical Engineering and Physics and MSc Clinical Sciences. From 2002 he has acted as Co-Director of the International College on Medical Physics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy.

Slavik Tabakov has been involved in international teams of specialists in pioneering the concepts of e-learning in medical physics since 1993. In August 2006, at a ceremony during the World Congress in Seoul, South Korea, he was granted the IOMP Harold Johns Medal for Excellence in Teaching and International Education Leadership.

In 2012 he was nominally elected as President of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP), a position he held on to in 2015.

In 1994, Slavik Tabakov worked among a consortium of academics from universities and hospitals including King’s College London, Lund University, University of Florence, Portuguese Oncology Institute, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trinity College, Dublin and Plovdiv Medical University, in developing the project EMERALD. The project created an e-learning material in medical physics. In 1999 the team developed and introduced the first educational web site in medical physics and developed the e-learning project EMIT. In 2004 these e-learning materials received the inaugural award for vocational education of the European Union (EU) – The Leonardo da Vinci Award.