Dr. Austin Faught is a medical physicist and Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Austin has clinical responsibilities at the interface of engineering, technology, and clinical care for patients receiving proton radiation therapy at The James Outpatient Care. He helped in opening the new, state-of-the-art center at Ohio State, bringing six years of experience from a prior faculty appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. 

Austin’s research interests include optimizing patient outcomes during treatment planning through use of informatics, automation, and big-data analysis. He has given invited lecturers and published in peer-reviewed journals on the treatment of children with proton radiation therapy. 

Austin received a BA in Physics from Kenyon College, PhD in Medical Physics from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and performed his residency training at Duke University. He completed an additional year of research training as a postdoctoral scholar at The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.