Prof. M. Saiful Huq, PhD is an esteemed Medical Physicist, Past-President of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Director of Medical Physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Prof. Huq is responsible for the management of scientific and clinical medical physics operations of 28 cancer centers in western Pennsylvania, USA. He also provides guidance on the operations of two UPMC- owned cancer centers in Ireland and two in Italy. He served as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Radiology (ABR) for ten years, for American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) for one year and for International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB) this year. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics, has given over 205 invited presentations globally and has published 157 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Huq received his MS and PhD in Physics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Dr. Huq has served in many capacities at various national and international organizations. He is a Fellow of both the British Institute of Physics and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and is a recipient of AAPM’s Farrington Daniels Award. In 2010, Dr. Huq received the Distinguished Service Award given by The American Board of Radiology; the same year he received the “Distinguished Medical Physicist for 2010” award given by the Indo American Society of Medical Physicists. In 2018, he was elected to the Presidential chain of AAPM.

He served as the President of AAPM during the year 2020. Currently he serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of AAPM. Dr. Huq has served on numerous AAPM Task Groups, notably TG100 (chair) and TG-51. Dr. Huq has also served as a consultant and an expert on many International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiatives, developing various documents (example, author of IAEA TRS398 CoP, TRS 483 CoP which is the IAEA/AAPM CoP for small field dosimetry) which provide guidance to the worldwide radiotherapy community regarding various aspects of cancer therapy using external beam radiation.