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:
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 Program Director and Graduate Program Coordinator.
Current teaching assignments:
He is the author of a monograph entitled "Principles of Biomedical Informatics", published in October 2008. The book web page includes a link to all the code from the book, and other information as well.
Dr. Kalet is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Medical Informatics Association.
CV: PDF
Bibliography: PDF
For pictures of Morrigan Gabriella Kalet, the newest addition to the Kalet family, please check out the baby pictures page.
ikalet@u.washington.edu