Minesh Mehta is an internationally recognized expert in human clinical drug trial strategy, design and execution and has managed national and international trials of all sizes including International Phase III trials. He is also Professor in the Department of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin’s Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) and the PI of the Department of Human Oncology program project grant for the first clinical trial of TomoTherapy radiation equipment.

As well, Dr. Mehta was a Chairman of the Department of Human Oncology, a Chairman of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and Director of the Division of Radiotherapy at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals. He is Chair of the FDA Radiological Devices Panel and Chair of the Brain Tumor Committee in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. He has published more than 400 papers total in the areas of therapy and basic and clinical cancer research and he is an internationally recognized expert in oncologic radiotherapy. Dr. Mehta has been a pharmaceutical drug and oncology consultant for TomoTherapy, Johnson & Johnson, Schering Plough, Pharmacyclics and Novartis.
Dr. Mehta obtained his medical degree at the University of Zambia and commenced his residency there at the Ndola Central Hospital. He moved to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed his residency in radiation oncology when he took up an Assistant Professorship in Human Oncology, was promoted to Associate Professor and became the Director of the Radiation Oncology Residency Training Program. After serving as Vice-Chairman and Interim Chairman, Dr. Mehta became Chair of Human Oncology and also added an Associate Professorship in Neurological Surgery.

Dr. Mehta serves as a Staff Physician at 8 hospitals in Wisconsin and Illinois, and is a member of a dozen professional societies. He has extensive teaching experience, including mentoring of current heads of Cancer Centers in India engaged in clinical trial drug research. His work has been extensively funded by the National Cancer Institute, where he currently leads a Program Project focused on Tomotherapy, as well as by industrial sponsors. Dr. Mehta has authored 70 clinical protocols and over 120 clinical research papers and 30 book chapters.