Ehsan Samei is the Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology and a board-certified medical physicist at Duke University, where he serves as Chief Imaging Physicist and director of the Center for Virtual Imaging Trials. He was a founding force behind the Duke Medical Physics Graduate and Residency Programs, the Duke Clinical Imaging Physics Group, the Society of Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs, the Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, and the Medical Physics 3.0 initiative. Author of over 340 referred papers and 4 books, his research ranges from medical displays, to in vitro and in vivo imaging metrologies, quantitative medicine, and virtual clinical trials. Mentored over 130 graduate students and junior scientists, he advocates for translational medical physics, where the merits of innovations are measured not in terms of publications alone but patient-informed practice of physics in clinical medicine. Dr. Samei is a fellow of five professional organizations, has held multiple presidencies, and been recipient of multiple awards including the 2022 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award by the IOMP.