Prof. (Dr.) Bhaskaran Pillai, Professor and Head, Medical Physics & Radiation Safety, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences has been elected as Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Prof. (Dr.) Bhaskaran K. Pillai worked as a Senior Scientific Officer heading the Division of Medical Physics at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre India. He obtained a MS in Radiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, and a PhD in Biomedical Physics at the UT Health Science Center, San Antonio.
Dr. Pillai has been responsible to initiate Medical Physics and Radiation Safety department at Amrita. He has trained and mentored 48 Medical Physicists. He also instituted a two-year Post Graduate Diploma Program in Medical Radiological Sciences, employing a distance learning internet tool where an all-volunteer faculty from the USA, Canada, and Australia interactively teach students in India.
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