Ira J. Kalet, Ph.D., Professor

Department of Radiation Oncology and Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics

e-mail: ikalet@u.washington.edu
telephone: (206) 598-4107
FAX: (206) 598-6218

Postal address:

Radiation Oncology Department
University of Washington
Box 356043
Seattle, Washington 98195-6043
USA

Adjunct Professor:
Computer Science and Engineering
Biological Structure

Ira Kalet received the B.A. degree in physics from Cornell University in 1965 and the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1968. His dissertation was on "Low Energy Theorems for Meson Production by Real and Virtual Photons". He held research and faculty appointments at the University of Washington Physics Department, the Robert Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State College, and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to the University of Washington in 1978 in the then newly formed Department of Radiation Oncology.

Research interests:

• the Prism project, computer graphic simulation of radiation treatments for cancer, using advanced software development methodology,
• the Drug Interaction Modeling project.
• the Clinical Target Volume project.
• the CNTS project, computer control of radiation therapy machines,
• Other artificial intelligence applications to cancer treatment. Dr. Kalet was the Program Chairman for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Workshop in 1987.

Teaching:

In the Fall of 2000, the University of Washington Board of Regents approved a proposal to establish a graduate program in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Dr. Kalet helped to establish this program and served until 2004 as its initial Graduate Program Coordinator.

Current teaching assignments:

• MEBI 531, "Life and Death Computing"
• MEBI 550, "Knowledge Representation and Applications"

He is also writing a monograph entitled "Principles of Biomedical Informatics", to appear at the end of 2007 or early 2008.

Dr. Kalet is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Ira J. Kalet, Grandfather

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