James Welsh

James Welsh, MS, MD, FACRO, is a board-certified radiation oncologist and neuro-oncologist who served on the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes, which advises the NRC on medical issues, from 2007-2014.

Dr. Welsh obtained his master’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and his M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed his residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and stayed on the Johns Hopkins faculty as an Assistant Professor of Oncology until 2001. Subsequently, Dr. Welsh completed a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin investigating helical TomoTherapy, a newly developed form of image-guided, intensity-modulated radiotherapy technology. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin and became Clinical Professor of Human Oncology and Medical Physics. From there, Dr. Welsh served brief stints as Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine–Shreveport and as a radiation oncologist at Willis-Knighton Hospital. He then returned to the Midwest as the fast neutron therapy physician at the Northern Illinois University Institute for Neutron Therapy at Fermilab.

Dr. Welsh is currently Professor, Medical Director, and Director of Clinical & Translational Research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University-Chicago and Chief of Radiation Oncology at the Hines VA Medical Center. He is also president-elect of the American College of Radiation Oncology and sits on the editorial boards for several scientific and medical journals.