The Biomedical Physics Graduate Program is a CAMPEP-accredited (www.campep.org) interdepartmental program supported by the Departments of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Radiation Oncology, and Radiological Sciences.

It offers training in four specialties:

• Molecular Imaging
• Medical Imaging
• Therapeutic Medical Physics
• Molecular and Cellular Oncology

The goal of this graduate program is to educate and train students to become independent research scientists that are well versed in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering and computer science so that they understand the application of these disciplines to the instruments and techniques used in both the imaging and treatment of diseases, ranging from basic to translational biomedical research.

The program prepares students for careers as independent researchers or professional medical physicists in an academic, clinical, industry or governmental environments.  Graduates are highly qualified to pursue board certification as medical physicists or to apply for a clinical medical physics residency.

Graduates from our program are highly recruited and many have academic appointments in university associated medical centers or they are in post-doctoral, residency or MD programs and are expected to obtain such appointments in the future.  These include appointments at Stanford, Harvard, UCSF, UCSD, UC Davis, San Diego State University, University of Washington, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT_Dallas Medical Center, UT (Tenn.), Washington University in St. Louis, University of Virginia, Virginia, Commonwealth, Duke University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USC (yes, even USC), Georgetown, Emory University Medical School, SUNY, UCLA, Columbia University, Yale, Henry Ford Hospital (Michigan), Virginia Brookhaven National Laboratory, McGill University and Johns Hopkins.  We have also had a number of graduates who have faculty positions in universities outside the United States (e.g. Taiwan, Malaysia).  We have had graduates who were sponsored by various branches of the armed forces and have positions within those agencies.

Our graduates have also been heavily recruited for a range of positions within industry including GE Healthcare or GE Global Research, Siemens Medical Solutions, Toshiba America Medical Systems as well as companies like Merck, Amgen, Syncor International, and Varian.  Our graduates are also employed by non-medical companies such as Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems and Raytheon.
Because of the attractiveness of the Southern California climate, many of our graduates have accepted employment in local institutions, such as Cedars-Sinai, City of Hope, Kaiser Permanente or other private firms that provide physics services to institutions in the area.