Chairs & Committee Members
The Technical Program Chairs and Committee Members are integral to the success of the meeting. These volunteers dedicate countless hours to planning, including such critical activities as raising funds to support the event, securing invited speakers, reaching out to colleagues to encourage submissions, reviewing papers, and scheduling sessions. On behalf of OSA, its Board, and its entire staff, we extend enormous gratitude to the following members of the Biomedical Optics (BIOMED) Technical Program Committee.
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Program Committee
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Information for Session Chairs/Presiders
Program Committee
General Chairs
Claude Albert Boccara, ESPCI, France
Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Lev T. Perelman, Harvard Univ., USA
BIO 2: BioNanophotonics and Molecular Probes
Samuel Achilefu, Washington Univ. in St Louis, USA, Co- Chair
Gang Zheng, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, Co- Chair
Stephen A. Boppart, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Shawn Chen, National Instit. Of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, USA
Christopher Contag, Stanford Univ., USA
Ute Resch-Genger, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
Andrew Tsourkas, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Yasuteru Urano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Itamar Willner, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
BIO 3: Optical MicroscopyTechniques
Peter So, MIT, USA, Co- Chair
Tony Wilson, Univ. of Oxford, UK, Co- Chair
Adela Ben-Yakar, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Paul J Campagnola, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kristen Carlson Maitland, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Ji-Yen Cheng, Center for Applied Sciences/Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Wonshik Choi, Korea Univ., South Korea
Alberto Diaspro, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
David L. Dickensheets, Montana State Univ., USA
Melike Lakadamyali, Instit. of Photonic Science, ICFO, Spain
Dan Oron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Jianan Y. Qu, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
BIO 4: Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy
Lihong V. Wang, Washington Univ. in St Louis, USA, Co- Chair
Wiendelt Steenbergen, Universiteit Twente/MIRA Institute, Netherlands, Co- Chair
Mark A. Anastasio, Washington Univ. in St Louis, USA
Paul C. Beard, Univ. College London, UK
Stanislav Emelianov, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Martin Frenz, Universitat Bern, Inst. of Applied Physics, Switzerland
Jan Laufer, Univ. College London, UK
Pai-Chi Li, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Alexander A. Oraevsky, Fairway Medical Technologies Inc, USA
Guenther Paltauf, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, Austria
Roger J Zemp, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
BIO 5: Optical Coherence Tomography
James G. Fujimoto, MIT, USA, Co- Chair
Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria, Co- Chair
Iwona Maria Gorczynska, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Poland
Robert Huber, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, Germany
Michael W Jenkins, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA
Michael Pircher, Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Guillermo J. Tearney, Harvard Medical School, USA
Alex Vitkin, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
Ruikang K. Wang, Univ. of Washington, USA
Yoshiaki Yasuno, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
BIO 6: Optical Imaging and Tomography
Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lunds Universitet, Sweden, Co- Chair
Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College, USA, Co- Chair
Randall L. Barbour, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
David Cuccia, Modulated Imaging, USA
Hamid Dehghani, Univ. of Birmingham, UK
Jeremy C. Hebden, Univ. College London, UK
Huabei Jiang, Univ. of Florida, USA
Robert J. Nordstrom, NIH/NCI, USA
Eiji Okada, Keio Univ., Japan
Michael S. Patterson, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Canada
Antonio Pifferi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nirmala Ramanujam, Duke Univ., USA
Ilya Turchin, Institute of Applied Physics, Russia
Arjun Yodh, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Quing Zhu, Univ. of Connecticut, USA
BIO 7: Optical Spectroscopy
Vadim Backman, Northwestern Univ., USA, Co- Chair
Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State Univ., Russia, Co- Chair
Jennifer Barton, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Irving J. Bigio, Boston Univ., USA
Nada Boustany, Rutgers University, USA
Rinat Esenaliev, Univ .of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, USA
Bob Filkins, General Electric, USA
Kirill Larin, Univ. of Houston, USA
Martin Leahy, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
Qingming Luo, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Igor Meglinsky, Univ. of Otago, New Zeeland
Herbert Schneckenburger, Hochschule Aalen, Germany
Dick Sterenborg, Univ. Hospital Rotterdam-Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, The Netherlands
Bruce Tromberg, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
Urs Utzinger, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Martin Wolf, Univ. Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
If you are a member of the committee and have any questions or concerns at any point along the way, please refer to the information below or contact your program manager.
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Information for Session Chairs/Presiders
Presiders are requested to identify themselves at least 20 minutes before the session begins to the audiovisual personnel for a quick review of equipment and procedures.
Guidelines
Remember to introduce yourself as the presider and announce the session. The total amount of time allotted for each paper will be listed in the online program as well as in the conference program book. Generally, invited talks are allowed 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Generally, contributed talks are allowed 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for discussion. Generally, tutorials are allotted 45 minutes to 1 hour, with 5 minutes for discussion. A 60-minute mechanical timer will be available for your use. We recommend that the timer is set two minutes prior to the end of the presentation time in order to provide a warning to wrap up the talk and start the discussion period. Notify the authors of this warning system. It is also important to remind the speaker to repeat the questions asked from the audience.
Maintaining the scheduled timing of papers is very important. In cases where the paper is withdrawn or the speaker does not show, use the time for an extended question period for authors of previously presented papers or call a break. PLEASE DO NOT START TALKS EARLIER THAN THEY ARE SCHEDULED. All requests to modify the program schedule should be directed to the program chair.
Speaker Check-in Sheet
Once you arrive at your session room, you’ll find a folder at the podium or on the table at the front of the room. This folder will contain a sheet for each session in that room. Please be sure to remove only your session sheet. The check-in sheet will list the talks within your session, the order in which they will be given, and the name of the author giving the presentation. Please be sure to check the box to indicate which speakers presented during the session. Make note of any no-show speakers or replacement speakers. Also, please try to estimate the number of attendees at the session at the start of the session, about halfway into the session, and at the end of the session; note these counts where indicated in the upper right corner. Leave the completed sheet in the folder in the pocket marked “Completed” and leave the folder on the podium or table for the next session presider. The check-in sheet serves two purposes: 1) to assist you in running an effective session and 2) to help us ensure that the appropriate speakers’ files are archived on OSA Optics InfoBase after the meeting. Only those authors who attend and present are included in the InfoBase, so it’s important that you make note of any presenters who are absent.
View a sample check-in sheet.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to licensing restrictions, the use of music in presentations, including video presentations, is prohibited. If a speaker uses music during his/her presentation, please inform Meeting Management immediately.
