Dr Kalpana M. Kanal received her MS degree from the University of Texas at Arlington, and her PhD in Radiological Sciences from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, USA. After completing the Medical Physics Residency Program at Mayo Clinic, she joined the Department of Radiology at University of Minnesota in 1998.
In 1999, Dr. Kanal was certified by the American Board of Radiology (ACR) in Diagnostic Radiological Physics. She has been working in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington since 2000 and is currently Professor and Director of the Diagnostic Physics Section. She is also Chair of the Radiation Safety Committee at University of Washington and is active professionally in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), ACR and American Board of Radiology (ABR) and recently became a medical physics trustee in ABR. She has also served as the Chair of the ACR CT Dose Index Registry. She has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has made several scientific presentations throughout her career. Dr Kanal has also been recognized as a fellow by the AAPM, ACR and SABI.