John D. Hazle PhD, FAAPM, FACR

Dr. John D. Hazle is a medical physicist with over 25 years of academic experience. He is board-certified and licensed in Texas for both therapeutic and diagnostic medical physics. His primary research interests are image-guided therapy, pre-clinical imaging and novel early detection technologies. Dr. Hazle shares leadership of the Image Guided Therapy Lab with Dr. Jason Stafford where their work primarily focuses on developing novel approaches to image temperature using MRI. Dr. Hazle has been the Director of the NCI funded Small Animal Cancer Imaging Research Facility for 15 years and was the Director of the NCI funded Experimental Cancer Imaging Research Program from 2008-2012. He has won numerous awards, most recently M.D. Anderson's President's Recognition for Faculty Excellence Award in 2014. Dr. Hazle serves on multiple institutional committees, engages as an medical imaging expert with industry partners, and is currently a journal reviewer for six peer reviewed scientific journals. He is a past President of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Commission for Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs. Dr. Hazle is considered an renowned expert in biomedical imaging and MRI physics. He is frequently an invited presenter at national and international conferences. Dr. Hazle also holds the Bernard W. Biedenharn Chair in Cancer Research and has a faculty appointment with The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences