Dr Slavik Tabakov, PhD, CSci, FHEA, FIPEM, FIOMP is Consultant and Reader in Medical Physics and Director of the Postgraduate Programmes: MSc Medical Engineering and Physics and MSc Clinical Sciences at King's College London (School of Medicine). Dr Tabakov is an active officer of the International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) and the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM). He has been elected and re-elected several times as Chair of the Education and Training Committees and Honorary Treasurer of both organisations. After the international elections in 2012 Dr Slavik Tabakov became President-Elect of the IOMP (www.iomp.org). Currently Dr Tabakov is Co-Editor of the IOMP Journal Medical Physics International; Co-Editor of the Book Series on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (CRC Press) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Health and Technology (Springer). He has coordinated 6 international projects, one of which received the inaugural prize for vocational education in the European Union - the Leonardo da Vinci Award (2004). In 2006 he was awarded the IOMP Harold Johns Medal for Excellence in Teaching and International Education Leadership.