Journal of Biomedical Optics Editorial Board

Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D. (bio)
Rice University
USA

Lihong Wang earned his PhD degree at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He currently holds the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His book titled “Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging,” one of the first textbooks in the field, won the 2010 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award. Wang is a fellow of the AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering), OSA (Optical Society of America), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

Joseph R. Lakowicz, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
USA

John A. Parrish, M.D.
Wellman Laboratories, Harvard Medical School
USA

Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D. (bio)
University of California, Irvine
USA

Bruce Tromberg is the director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (BLI) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and principal investigator of the Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP), an NIH National Biomedical Technology Center. He is a professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, co-leads the Onco-imaging and Biotechnology Program in UCI’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and has been a member of the BLI faculty since 1990. His research interests include diffuse optics, non-linear microscopy, metabolic imaging, and photodynamic therapy. He serves on several national advisory committees, including the Experimental Imaging Sciences Committee for the American College of Radiology Imaging Networks (ACRIN) and is a council member for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics from 1999-2009 and is an editorial board member for the journals Measurement Science and Technology and Cancer Research. He is a fellow of SPIE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers.

Ruikang K. Wang, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Washington, Seattle
USA

Ruikang K. Wang is professor of bioengineering and ophthalmology at the University of Washington, Seattle. After two years of postdoctoral research training in Glasgow, Scotland, he joined as lecturer, and then senior lecturer, in bioimaging science with Keele Medical School, England. In 2002, he became a chair professor in biomedical optics at Cranfield University, England, where he created and directed the Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory. In 2005, he joined Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon, where he was professor of biomedical engineering and the director of the Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. His current research interests include biophotonics and imaging, optical coherence tomography, optical microangiography, and their applications in neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology and cancer.

Stefan Andersson-Engels, Ph.D. (bio)
Lund University
Sweden

Stefan Andersson-Engels is a professor at Lund University. He started his academic career by studying novel medical diagnostic techniques using laser spectroscopy. The work resulted in a PhD thesis based on 16 scientific publications in 1990. He spent the following year at McMasters University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. During this time, he worked especially on research involving light propagation in turbid media, such as tissue. He brought this knowledge back to Lund University, and the research now also involved photodynamic therapy and optical mammography, two fields involving much modeling of light propagation in tissue. The group introduced PDT as a clinical modality in Scandinavia, and was also the first to perform time-resolved transillumination imaging of living tissue.

R. R. Alfano, Ph.D. (bio)
City College of the City University of New York
USA

Robert R. Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of the City University of New York, is a pioneer in the application of light and photonics technology to the study of biological, biomedical and condensed matter systems and a leader in inventing and using novel light sources, such as supercontinuum, as well as developing ultrafast laser spectroscopic techniques. His research achievements include contributions in discovering new tunable Cr3+/Cr4+ lasers, supercontinuum, developing laser spectroscopic and optical biomedical imaging techniques for optical biopsy, i.e., noninvasive, pain-free detection and diagnosis of diseases. He received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. in physics from New York University. He received the Association of Italian American Educators Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and the SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award in 2012.

Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
USA

Mark A. Anastasio, Ph.D. (bio)
Washington University
USA

Mark Anastasio is a professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His current research interests include the development of biomedical imaging methods, image reconstruction, and inverse problems in imaging and theoretical image science. His current research projects include the development of advanced X-ray, optical, and acoustical imaging systems that are based on wave physics and can provide important structural and physiological tissue information. These projects include photoacoustic and thermoacoustic imaging, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, optical and acoustical tomography and holography, and improvement of existing clinical imaging methods.

Peter E. Andersen, Ph.D.
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark

Rafat R. Ansari, Ph.D. (bio)
NASA
USA

Rafat R. Ansari is a senior scientist with NASA at the John H. Glenn Research Center in the United States. He is known for achievements in biomedical optics, optical, photo-optical, optoelectronic applied science, and experimental ophthalmology. He is a recipient of the Public Service Medal, two NASA’s Space Act Awards, the Abe Silverstein Medal, STARS Award from the State of Texas, Service to America Medals finalist for Science and Environment, the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the HHS Innovates Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and honors from both the Ohio State Senate and the U.S. Senate. He is a SPIE Fellow.

Bahman Anvari, Ph.D. (bio)
University of California, Riverside
USA

Bahman Anvari received a BA degree in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD degree in bioengineering from Texas A&M University in 1993. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California, Irvine, and later a research assistant professor of engineering at Harvey Mudd College. He joined the bioengineering department at Rice University in 1998 as an assistant professor and became a tenured associate professor in 2003. In 2006, Anvari joined the Department of Bioengineering at University of California, Riverside, as a full professor.

Paul C. Beard, Ph.D.
University College London
UK

Michael W. Berns, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
USA

Irving J. Bigio, Ph.D. (bio)
Boston University
USA

Irving J. Bigio received his PhD in physics from the University of Michigan in 1974. Until 2000, he was at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, including service as leader of the Laser Science and Applications Program from 1988 to 1994. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a guest fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford. Since 2001, he has been a professor at Boston University, with appointments in biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, physics, and medicine (gastroenterology). He is a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. His specialties include scattering, scattering spectroscopy, scattering phase function, Mie theory, computational modeling of light transport in tissue, and diagnostic optical spectroscopy.

David J.S. Birch, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Strathclyde
UK

David Birch is a professor of photophysics at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is a cofounder of the university’s interdisciplinary Centre for Molecular Nanometrology and head of physics and principal investigator for the EPSRC Science and Innovation Award Nanometrology for Molecular Science, Medicine and Manufacture. David studied physics at the University of Manchester, where he obtained his PhD for fluorescence research. After holding a temporary lectureship at Manchester, he moved into industry to work on high-resolution organic mass spectrometry with VG Micromass Ltd. He subsequently moved to Strathclyde University as a lecturer and was appointed professor of photophysics in 1993.

Paul J. Campagnola, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA

Paul J. Campagnola obtained his PhD in chemistry from Yale University in 1992, after which he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Colorado from 1992-1995. He was on the faculty in the Department of Cell Biology, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling at the University of Connecticut Health Center from 1995-2010, having adjunct appointments in the Physics Department and Biomedical Engineering Program. In 2012, he became an associate professor in Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the development of nonlinear optical spectroscopy and microscopy methods, with an emphasis on translational applications.

David T. Delpy, Ph.D. (bio)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
UK

David Delpy has been the chief executive of EPSRC since 2007. He joined EPSRC from University College London, where he was vice provost for research from 1999. From 1992 to 1999, he was head of the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at UCL. His career at UCL started in 1972, working on an MRC funded project to develop an invasive blood pressure sensor. In 1976, he was appointed as a senior physicist at University College Hospital with a major responsibility for the physiological monitoring equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit and became a principal physicist in 1982. In 1986, he became a senior lecturer at UCL and in 1991 became Hamamatsu professor of medical photonics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Alberto Diaspro, Ph.D.
Italian Institute of Technology
Italy

Chen-Yuan Dong, Ph.D. (bio)
National Taiwan University
Taiwan

Chen-Yuan Dong received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1998. His doctoral thesis was on the development and application of pump-probe and two-photon fluorescence microscopy for biological applications. From 1998 to 2000, he received an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he gained additional experience in the development and applications of multiphoton imaging. In 2001, Dong joined the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University, where he developed a biophysics and biophotonics research program.

Wolfgang Drexler, Ph.D. (bio)
Medical University of Vienna
Austria

Wolfgang Drexler received his MS and PhD in electrical engineering in 1991 and 1995, respectively, at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. From 2006 to 2009, he was a full professor of biomedical imaging at the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Since 2010, he has been an honorary distinguished professor at Cardiff University. Since October 2009, he has been a full professor of medical physics and the head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He has also been director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Laser Development and their Application in Medicine since 2011. His specialties include optical imaging, OCT and functional OCT, and multimodal optical imaging.

Anthony J. Durkin, Ph.D. (bio)
University of California, Irvine
USA

Anthony J. Durkin is an associate professor at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine. His research is focused on the development and application of optical spectroscopic and quantitative wide-field near infrared imaging techniques to interrogate superficial living tissues in-vivo, including skin cancer, burn wounds and reconstructive surgery. Durkin holds a PhD in biomedical engineering that was awarded in 1995 from the University of Texas at Austin, with emphasis on biomedical optics and fluorescence spectroscopy. He has been a JBO editorial board member since 2003.

Marco Ferrari, M.D. (bio)
University of L'Aquila
Italy

Marco Ferrari is a full professor of biochemistry with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of L'Aquila, Italy, vice chairman of the Department of Health Sciences and vice president of the Medical School Council. He has served as an associate professor at University of L'Aquila Medical School and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He also has received fellowships from Johns Hopkins, Istituto Superiore di Sanità at the Farmacology Laboratory in Rome and the Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, I University of Rome. He is a member of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue, and has been a Journal of Biomedical Optics editorial board member since 1996.

Martin Frenz, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Bern
Switzerland

Martin Frenz has been the director of the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bern since 2008. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Bern in 1990 and an MS in physics from Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg in 1985. He is a member of the Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy, Swiss Physical Society, American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, SPIE, Biomedical Optics Society, and Optical Society of America.

Daniel Fried, Ph.D. (bio)
University of California, San Francisco
USA

Daniel Fried is a professor in the division of biomaterials and bioengineering in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. His areas of expertise include dentistry, laser ablation, spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography, and caries detection.

James G. Fujimoto, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA

Amir Gandjbakhche, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
USA

Min Gu, Ph.D.
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia

Jürgen Lademann, Ph.D. (bio)
Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Jürgen Lademann is an internationally renowned physicist researching at the interface between dermatology, pharmacology, and biophysics. Since 1996, he has been in charge of the Center of Experimental and Applied Cutaneous Physiology at the Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In 2001, he was appointed professor of dermatology. In 2012, he was admitted as a member of the Berlin-based scientific society Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften. His areas of expertise include light-tissue interaction, cutaneous physiology, development and application of optical and spectroscopic methods in dermatology and skin physiology, laser techniques, development and application of optical sensors, and photochemistry.

Martin J. Leahy, Ph.D. (bio)
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland

Martin Leahy is a serial entrepreneur having been technical and/or managerial lead of several successful spin-out companies in biophotonics and energy. His main research interest is in the advancement of existing technologies, such as laser Doppler and laser speckle, as well as the development of new modalities such as TiVi and cmOCT for 2D, 3D and 4D imaging of microcirculation. In 2010, he delivered a dozen international invited lectures and published more than a dozen ISI journal articles. He was appointed chair of applied physics at NUI Galway in April 2011.

Xingde Li, Ph.D. (bio)
Johns Hopkins University
USA

Xingde Li received a BS degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, a PhD degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training from MIT. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to JBO, he also serves on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Optics Express (OSA), IntraVital Microscopy (Landes Biosciences), and Light: Science and Applications (Nature Publishing Group and CIOMP) plus several other international journals in biophotonics. He is a fellow of OSA and SPIE. His expertise includes optical coherence tomography, nonlinear microscopy, endoscopy, and biophotonics molecular imaging.

Qingming Luo, Ph.D. (bio)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China

Qingming Luo graduated from Xidian University in 1986, gained his Ph.D. degree in physicoelectronics and optoelectronics from HUST in 1993, and became a faculty member in the Department of Optoelectronic Engineering in HUST. He was promoted as an associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 1997. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in University of Pennsylvania (1995-1997), and visiting researcher at Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic in University of California, Irvine (2000). Luo joined School of Life Science and Technology in HUST in 1999 and was appointed deputy dean in 1999 and the dean from 2003 to 2007. In August 2007, the Ministry of Education of China appointed him the vice president of HUST. He was elected an SPIE Fellow in 2007.

Andreas Mandelis, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Toronto
Canada

Andreas Mandelis is a full professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, electrical and computer engineering at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto. He is a Canada research chair (tier 1) in diffusion-wave sciences and technologies. He received his BS degree (magna cum laude) in physics from Yale University in 1974, and MA, MSE, and PhD degrees from Princeton University. He is the director of the Center for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, SPIE and AAAS, and a member of the ASME K7 Committee on Thermophysics.

Michael D. Morris, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Michigan
USA

Michael Morris is Richard D. Sacks Collegiate Professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan and a member of Comprehensive Cancer Center and its Core Center for Musculoskeletal Research. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomedical Optics and Calcified Tissue International. He is the editor or co-editor of two monographs on spectroscopy and imaging, as well as several volumes of Proceedings of SPIE. His honors include the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis, the Anachem Award, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy New York Section Gold Medal and Meggers Award, the Mann Award in Applied Raman Spectroscopy, and several University of Michigan awards. His research interests include Raman spectroscopy and Raman imaging.

Mary-Ann Mycek, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
USA

Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Virginia
USA

Ammasi Periasamy received his PhD degree in 1983 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He did a postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, Seattle, in the department of bioengineering from 1985 to 1987. Currently, he is a full professor and center director at the W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Periasamy is an elected fellow of SPIE.

Barbara K. Pierscionek, Ph.D. (bio)
Kingston University
UK

Barbara Pierscionek holds clinical and scientific degrees (PhD in protein chemistry and optics) from the University of Melbourne in Australia and obtained an MBA and legal qualifications in the U.K. Her scientific expertise is in the area of ocular and biomedical optics and vision research. She currently works at Kingston University as the associate dean of research and enterprise in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. She manages a diverse research and enterprise portfolio and conducts a program of research in vision science and optics with colleagues from across the faculty. Her specialties include optics of the eye, aberrations of the lens and cornea, changes in optics of the eye with age and disease conditions, instrumentation used in ocular optics, and vision science including psychophysics.

Brian W. Pogue, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College
USA

Jianan Qu, Ph.D. (bio)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Jianan Qu received BS and MS degrees in optical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He received a PhD degree in optics from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1990. After that, he worked one year with the Department of Physics at the University of California, Irvine, and two more years with the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre as a postdoctoral fellow. Before joining HKUST in 1997, he was a staff scientist with the Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre and Ontario Cancer Institute. Qu is currently a full professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST. He is an elected fellow of the Optical Society of America and a member of SPIE. His research interests are biophotonics; modern optical devices and systems; optical imaging processing; laser spectroscopy; environmental monitoring.

David D. Sampson, Ph.D.
University of Western Australia
Australia

Richard Straight, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Utah
USA

Richard Straight is a retired research professor of surgery/medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the director of the research center at Protherics-Utah. He received a BA degree in experimental biology /chemistry and a PhD in photobiology/chemistry from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1961 and 1979, respectively. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical Optics since 1991. His specialties include photodynamic therapy, laser/free electron laser photobiology/phototherapy, optical imaging and spectroscopy, optical medical diagnostics, lab-on-chip photonics for clinical point of care protein analysis, and detection of medically important protein toxins and antibodies for antitoxin therapy.

Lars O. Svaasand, Ph.D. (bio)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway

Lars Othar Svaasand is a professor of physical electronics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received an MSc in electronics in 1961 and a PhD in optics in 1974, both from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was a research scientist from 1962-66 at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and the SINTEF Research Group Trondheim from 1966-74, and an associate professor at NTH from 1974-84. He has been a professor at NTNU since 1984. His specialties include nonlinear optics, optical fibers, photodynamic treatment of cancer, laser treatment of port wine stains and other skin lesions, hyperthermia of cancer, cooling technics and mathematical modeling of optical and thermal propagation in tissues.

Katarina Svanberg, Ph.D. (bio)
Lund University Hospital
Sweden

Katarina Svanberg is a professor of oncology at Lund University Hospital in Sweden. She received a PhD in medical science in 1989. Her areas of technical interest include detection and treatment of malignant tumors utilizing porphyrin-containing tumor-localizing substances and laser light, and diagnostics of atherosclerotic plaques utilizing laser-induced fluorescence. She has been a JBO editorial board member since 1995.

Valery V. Tuchin, Ph.D. (bio)
Saratov State University
Russian Federation

Valery V. Tuchin holds the Optics and Biophotonics chair and is a director of research in the Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics at Saratov State University, head of the Laboratory on Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems in the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Control, RAS. His research interests include biophotonics, biomedical optics, tissue optics, phototherapy, and optical and laser measurements in biomedicine. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and books. He has been awarded Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation and SPIE Fellow, and he is a vice president of Russian Photobiology Society. In 2007, he was awarded the SPIE Educator Award. He is a FiDiPro Professor of University of Oulu (Finland).

Ton G. van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (bio)
Academisch Medisch Centrum
Netherlands

Ton G. van Leeuwen was appointed professor of Clinical Application of Biomedical Optics at the University of Twente in 2001. From 2003 to 2008, he headed the Biomedical Optics Group at the Science Faculty and the Biomedical Technology Institute at UT. At UT, he started and headed the spearhead project Non-Invasive Molecular Tumor Imaging and Killing. In 2008, he was appointed professor of biomedical Photonics and head of the Biomedical Engineering and Physics Department in the Faculty of Medicine at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam (AMC- UvA). In 2009, he was appointed full professor in biomedical physics (AMC-UvA). His current research focuses on the physics of the interaction of light with tissue, and to use that knowledge for the development, introduction and clinical evaluation of newly developed optical imaging techniques for gathering quantitative functional and molecular information of tissue.

Alfred Vogel, Ph.D. (bio)
Medical Laser Center Luebeck
Germany

Alfred Vogel received a PhD degree in physics from Georg-August University Goettingen in 1987, and the degree of Habilitated Doctor of Physics from the University of Luebeck, Germany, in 1999. He is professor of physics and director of the Institute of Biomedical Optics, University of Luebeck, as well as deputy CEO of the Medical Laser Center Luebeck GmbH. Vogel is a fellow of SPIE and of the Optical Society of America.

Younan Xia, Ph.D. (bio)
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA

Younan Xia received a B.S. in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987, an M.S. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1996. He started as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997, and was promoted to associated professor and professor in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007 as the James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced Materials. At the beginning of 2012, he moved to Georgia Institute of Technology as the Brock Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine, with joint appointments in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research interests include nanomaterials, biomaterials, nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, imaging contrast agents, electrospinning, and colloidal science.

Changhuei Yang, Ph.D. (bio)
California Institute of Technology
USA

Changhuei Yang leads the Biophotonics Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. His specialties include microscopy, wavefront engineering, biosensors, and microfluidics.

Quing Zhu, Ph.D. (bio)
University of Connecticut
USA

Quing (Ching) Zhu received her Ph.D. from the Bioengineering Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and she is currently a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut. Zhu's research has focused on the development of novel imaging devices combining ultrasound and diffused light, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, nuclear detection and optical coherent tomography for breast and ovarian cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an SPIE Fellow.