Associate Professor (CHS)
- Director of Clinical Operations, CT Protocol Project
Imaging Sciences

Biography
Dr. Szczykutowicz is an Associate Professor (CHS) in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health. He is also affiliated with the Departments of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the SUNY University at Buffalo in 2008. After his undergraduate studies, Dr. Szczykutowicz came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he earned his Master’s Degree and Doctorate of Philosophy in Medical Physics, under the mentorship from Drs. Charles Mistretta and Guang-Hong Chen. After his dissertation work, Dr. Szczykutowicz spent a year as a doctoral fellow and imaging physics resident with the Department of Medical Physics at UW - Madison before being appointed as an Assistant Professor (CHS).
He currently specializes in CT, researching everything from CT reconstruction algorithms to protocol management and optimization. To date, protocols developed by this team have been shipped to more than 2,000 sites around the globe. He is on multiple editorial boards including Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography and RadioGraphics. Dr. Szczykutowicz is the author of 36 papers, 2 book chapters, the book “The CT Handbook: Optimizing Protocols for Today’s Feature-Rich Scanners”, 2 patents, and is a consultant to 5 companies.
Publications
In the News
- Medical Physics Students Organize Wright Middle School Field Trip
- UW-Radiology to Evaluate New Interventional CT Scanner
- UW Radiology Organizes Madison Urban League Field Trip
- Tim Szczykutowicz’s Research on CT Shortage Published in JAMA
- Szczykutowicz, Laeseke, and Chen Receive New Patents
- Tim Szczykutowicz Serves on Taskforce That Creates New Policy on Cumulative Effective Dose
- Tim Szczykutowicz Organizes Virtual Fieldtrip for Middle Schoolers
- Tim Szczykutowicz Receives Esteemed Appointments
- Dr. Szcykutowicz Receives Honors for Contributions to Articles in Radiology and Medical Physics
- Dr. Szczykutowicz Recognized by LEED as Influential Faculty Member