Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, November 30, 2007
Optical Imaging for Medicine and Biology: Applications in Cancer Detection
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Host:
Professor Jerome Mertz, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University
College of Engineering
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Short Biography of Guillermo J. Tearney

Guillermo J. Tearney, M.D. Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Pathology at the Harvard Medical School, an Assistant Physicist at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, and an affiliated faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Dr. Tearney is additionally the Optical Diagnostics Program Leader at the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT). The research interests of Dr. Tearney are primarily focused on the development and validation of non-invasive optical methods for disease diagnosis, including optical coherence tomography (OCT), endoscopic confocal microscopy, speckle imaging, and fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy. Dr. Tearney has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles and his work has been featured on the cover of a variety of prestigious journals, such as Science, Circulation, Gastroenterology, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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