David Joel Carlson PhD
Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
Biographical Info

International Activity
- Visiting Fellow
Heidelberg, Germany (2011 - 2011)
Participated in the Foreign Scientist Program in the Division of Medical Physics at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Education & Training
- B.A.
- Middlebury College (2002)
- Ph.D.
- Purdue University (2006)
- Resident
- Stanford University, Radiation Oncology Physics
- Intern
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Radiation Oncology
Honors & Recognition
- Ross Fellowship
Purdue University (2003) - Certified in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics
American Board of Radiology (ABR) (2009) - Graduate Student Travel Award
Purdue University (2003) - Editor’s Award
Radiation Research Society (2009) - Scholar-in-Training Travel Award
Radiation Research Society (2007) - Scholar-in-Training Travel Award
Radiation Research Society (2006)
Professional Service
- President-Elect, President, and Past-President, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2007 - 2009)
- Vice-chair and Member of the International Educational Activities Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (01/01/2012 - 12/31/2014)
- President-elect, President, Connecticut Area Medical Physics Society chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (01/01/2011 - 12/31/2012)
- Member of the International Affairs Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (01/01/2011 - 12/31/2013)
- Peer Reviewer, American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 51st-54th Annual Meetings (01/01/2009 - 01/01/2012)
- Vice-chair and Member of the African Affairs Subcommittee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (01/01/2007 - 12/31/2013)
- Guest Associate Editor, Medical Physics
- Peer Reviewer, Medical Physics
- Peer Reviewer, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics
- Peer Reviewer, Radiation Research
- Peer Reviewer, Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Peer Reviewer, British Journal of Radiology
- Peer Reviewer, International Journal of Radiation Biology
- Member, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
- Member, American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
- Member, Radiation Research Society (RRS)

