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Prior to that he served as Chief Physicist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital over 29 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahesh is the chair of science committee and member of the executive committee for the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) and is one of the co-chairs of the scientific program committee for the World Medical Physics Conference to be held in Adelaide, Australia in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahesh is also the President for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 2025 and will be the Board Chair in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahesh is board certified from the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and is a member of the Radiation Control Advisory Board (RCAB) for the State of Maryland. His research interests are in medical imaging, particularly in areas of computed tomography (CT), cone beam CT, interventional fluoroscopy and artificial intelligence. 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He also serves as subject-matter-expert (SME) to the United Nations-International Atomic Energy Agency (UN-IAEA) and is the national contact person of the United States and is a member of a small group of experts on medical exposure for the United Nation Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Dr Mahesh was the 2nd medical physicist in the United States to serve as president of radiological society, namely, Maryland Radiological Society and is the only medical physicist to have served on the board of Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). He also served as chair of faculty senate for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2017-2019).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahesh has published more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 170 international talks and several grand rounds. 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