Clifton Fuller, MD, PhD, FAMIA, FASTRO

Dr. Fuller is an NIH Established Investigator head and neck radiation oncologist and imaging informaticist physician-scientist with research focused on development of quantitative imaging and computational informatics methods integrated into patient care through prospective clinical trials. After NIH NIA T25 pre-doctoral, NCI R25 and NCRR M01 medical student research experiences, he gained expertise in human imaging physics through an NIBIB T32-supported joint PhD-clinical residency program in Clinical Radiation Oncology, before an NCI K12 Paul Calabresi Fellowship in clinical trials/imaging informatics. Dr. Fuller subsequently became dual board-certified as a radiation oncologist (2013) and clinical informatician (2015). This expertise led to an NCI P50-funded SPORE Career Development Award and subsequent research independence, as Primary Investigator for two NIH NCI P01 Program Project Grants, 8 R01-equivalent NIH Research Project Grants, and two NSF standard awards. Intramurally, he currently co-leads an NIH NCI P30-funded MD Anderson Cancer Center Core Support Grant sub-project, the *Image-Guided Interventions and Insights* (*I3*) program and extramurally serve as Vice Chair of the Imaging Committee for NRG Oncology, an NCI U10-funded clinical trials cooperative group. As a scientist-educator, he has been recognized as MDACC Distinguished Research Faculty Mentor (2021), University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, MD Academy of Health Education inductee (2023), MD Anderson Academy of Health Science Education Distinguished Educator Awardee (2023, 2025), and the University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teacher Award recipient (2025). Dr. Fuller is especially proud to have served in a capacity sufficient to honor his primary and subspecialty disciplines through Fellowship, as both a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA, 2025) and the American Society of Radiation Oncology (FASTRO, 2025).