UW Bioengineering’s Professor Paul Kinahan has been named Editor-in-Chief of Medical Physics, the flagship journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

Kinahan’s appointment will begin in January 2027. Launched more than 50 years ago, Medical Physics publishes high-impact research in physics, imaging science, radiation therapy, and engineering in medicine.

Kinahan is Vice Chair of Research in UW Medicine’s Department of Radiology and leads the Imaging Research Laboratory. He was part of the group that built the first prototype combined PET/CT scanner at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1990s. His team’s technology is included in hospital imaging systems and research systems worldwide, and he continues to develop image reconstruction algorithms used in PET/CT oncology.

A member of the faculty since 2001, Kinahan is a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.