Bill Salter, PhD, DABR, is the chief of the Department of Radiation Oncology's Division of Medical Physics and director of Radiation Oncology at Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Salter has extensive experience in technology innovation and implementation for radiation oncology, and participated in the early development of numerous important clinical technologies. These include intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), intensity modulated radiosurgery (IMRS), and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), all of which allow high doses of radiation to more specifically target a tumor while sparing healthy surrounding tissue. Salter also has extensive intracranial stereotactic experience, and implemented one of the first intensity modulated radiosurgery (IMRS) programs in the United States. Salter holds a patent on technology used for the delivery of IMRT and IMRS treatments at centers around the globe and has supervised more than 30,000 clinical IMRT treatments.

Salter received his PhD in medical physics from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining Huntsman Cancer Institute, he was the director of medical physics at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center; assistant professor in the Department of Radiology, Division of Radiological Sciences; and assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, all at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Salter is a member of several national task groups that define the standards by which radiation oncology is practiced and, as such, is considered an expert in his field.