Manuel Morales-paliza PhD

Dr. Manuel Morales is a medical physicist and Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Since September 2015, he is the Program Director of Medical Physics Graduate Programs. Originally from Cuzco, Peru, he received his B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from National University of Engineering in Lima-Peru (1990), and his M.Sc. (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) in Physics from Vanderbilt University. He completed his Medical Physics Residency at Vanderbilt University in 2008, and joined the Vanderbilt faculty immediately after.

Dr. Morales is certified in Therapeutic Medical Physics by the American Board of Radiology (ABR), and is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) where he serves in several working committees, the Society of Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs (SDAMPP), the Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE), and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP).