On the occasion of 20th anniversary of Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP), AFOMP decided to recognize contribution of medical physicist from AFOMP region. Medical physicists who worked in the AFOMP region for last 20 years and put tremendous efforts for medical physics professional development, medical physics education and research, those who made significant impact on science and organized scientific activities in AFOMP region to disseminate scientific knowledge for the welfare of the profession and society, they have served in national medical physicist organization and AFOMP, have served their country, AFOMP region and the community, for those AFOMP introduce outstanding Medical Physicist Award.
AFOMP received 36 nominations from 14 NMOs. All the nominations received were critically evaluated under 4 categories with a 50 point scale to total of 200 points and judged by the AHC members independently. The AHC members belonging to a country of nomination were excluded for the evaluation of particular nomination to avoid conflict of interest. During this process, outstanding medical physicist awarded by IOMP in 2013 from AFOMP region were excluded because they have already received the highest award and they are already AFOMP outstanding medical physicist.
The 21 Outstanding Medical Physicists awardees from AFOMP region are as follows:
| Sr.No | Country/NMO/Region | Recipient Name |
| 01 | Hong Kong | Dr. KY Cheung |
| 02 | Japan | Dr. Masahiro Endo |
| 03 | New Zealand | Dr. Howell Round |
| 04 | India | Dr. Arun Chougule |
| 05 | Japan | Dr. Nobuyuki Kanematsu |
| 06 | Singapore | Dr. James Lee |
| 07 | Japan | Dr. Tatsuaki Kanai |
| 08 | Taipei | Dr. Chen-Shou Chui |
| 09 | Korea | Dr. Hee-Joung Kim |
| 10 | Malaysia | Dr. Noriah Binti Jamal |
| 11 | Korea | Dr. Sung Kyu Kim |
| 12 | Bangladesh | Dr. Hasin Anupama Azhari |
| 13 | Japan | Dr. Koichi Ogawa |
| 14 | Korea | Dr. Kum Bae Kim |
| 15 | Iran | Dr. Hossein Mozdarani |
| 16 | Korea | Dr. Hyun-Tai Chung |
| 17 | Malaysia | Dr. Wan Ahmad Kamil Abdullah |
| 18 | India | Dr. B Paul Ravindran |
| 19 | Philippines | Dr. Agnette de Perio Peralta |
| 20 | China | Dr. Jianrong Dai |
| 21 | Thailand | Dr. Nisa Chawapun |
AFOMP congratulates all the 21 outstanding medical physicist awardees.
