European Congress on Biomedical Optics 2009
Technical Program Committee

General Chairs
Mary-Ann Mycek, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Wolfgang Drexler, Cardiff Univ., UK

Program Chairs
Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College, USA

Advanced Microscopy Techniques

Conference Chairs:
Paul J. Campagnola, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr., USA, Co-Chair
Ernst Stelzer, European Molecular Biology Lab, Germany, Co-Chair
Gert von Bally, Medical Ctr., Univ. of Münster, Germany , Co-Chair

Keith Berland, Emory Univ., USA
Kishan Dholakia, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Kevin Eliceiri, Lab for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Paul French, Imperial College London, UK
Jesper Glückstad, Technical Univ. of Denmark Fotonik, Denmark
Charles Lin, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ., USA
Vinod Subramaniam, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
Rainer Uhl, Ludwig Maximillians Univ. Munchen, Germany

Clinical and Biomedical Spectroscopy

Conference Chairs:
Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts Univ., USA, Co-Chair
Jürgen Popp, Univ. Jena, Inst. of Photonic Technology, Germany, Co-Chair
Katarina Svanberg, Lund Univ. Medical Laser Ctr., Sweden, Co-Chair

Volker Deckert, ISAS, Germany
Max Diem, Northeastern Univ., USA
Rebekah Drezek, Rice Univ., USA
Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia Univ., USA
Lise Randeberg, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Univ., Norway
Paola Taroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Diffuse Optical Imaging

Conference Chairs:
Rinaldo Cubeddu, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Co-Chair
Andreas H. Hielscher, Columbia Univ., USA, Co-Chair

Joseph P. Culver, Washington Univ., USA
Anabela da Silva, CEA/DBTS, France
Jeremy Hebden, Univ. College London, UK
Alwin Kienle, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
Alexander Klose, Columbia Univ., USA
Jens Steinbrink, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Germany

Molecular Imaging

Conference Chairs:
Kai Licha, mivenion GmbH, Germany , Co-Chair
Charles Lin, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, Co-Chair

Samuel Achilefu, Washington Univ., USA
Christoph Bremer, Univ. Münster ULB, Germany
Giannis Zacharakis, FORTH - IESL, Greece
Gang Zheng, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, Canada

Novel Optical Instrumentation for Biomedical Applications

Conference Chairs:
Christian D. Depeursinge, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Co-Chair
Alex Vitkin, Ontario Cancer Inst., Canada, Co-Chair

Vadim Backman, Northwestern Univ., USA
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, Univ. of San Paolo, Brazil
Daniel Côté, Laval Univ., Canada
Benoit C. Forget, EPSCI, France
Olivier Haeberle, Groupe LabEl - Lab MIPS, France
Steen Madsen, Univ. of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA
Igor Meglinski, Cranfield Univ., UK
Guenther Paltauf, Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz, Austria
Ton G. Van Leeuwen, Acad. Medisch Centrum, Netherlands
Robert Weersink, Photonics Res. Ontario, Canada
Maurice Whelan, European Commission, Italy

Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Techniques

Conference Chairs:
Peter E. Andersen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark, Co-Chair
Brett Bouma, Harvard Medical School, USA, Co-Chair

Jennifer Barton, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Johannes de Boer, Free Univ., Netherlands
Stephen A. Boppart, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Wolfgang Drexler, Cardiff Univ., UK
James Fujimoto, MIT, USA
Gereon Hüttman, Univ. of Luebeck, Germany
Joseph Izatt, Duke Univ., USA
Ton G. van Leeuwen, Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rainer Leitgeb, Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Constantinos Pitris, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
Adrian Podoleanu, Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Andrew Rollins, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA
Theo Lasser, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland
Natalia M. Shakhova, Inst. of Applied Physics of RAS, Russia
Julia Welzel, General Hospital Augsburg, Germany
Maciej Wojtkowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Poland
Yoshiaki Yasuno, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan

Therapeutic Laser Applications and Laser-Tissue Interactions

Conference Chairs:
Ronald Sroka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München, Germany, Co-Chair
Lothar Lilge, Univ. Health Network, PMH/Ontario Cancer Inst., Canada, Co-Chair

Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lunds Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
Wolfgang Baeumler, Univ. of Regensburg, Germany
Steve Bown, Univ. College London, UK
Ralf Brinkmann, Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lubeck GmbH, Germany
Martin Frenz, Univ. Bern, Switzerland
Christoph Haisch, Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany
Michael Hamblin, Harvard Medical School, USA
Raimund Hibst, Univ. Ulm, Germany
Colin Hopper, Eastman Dental Inst., UK
Duco Jansen, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
Barbara Krammer, Univ. of Salzburg, Austria
Mladen Korbelik, BC Cancer Agency, Canada
Serge Mordon, INSERM - Pavillon Vancostenobel, France
Ethne Nussbaum, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Dominic Robinson, Erasmus Univ. Medical Ctr., Netherlands
Ricardas Rotomskis, Vilnius Univ. Laser Res. Ctr., Lithuania
Herbert Stepp, Univ. of Munich, Germany
Alfred Vogel, Univ. of Luebeck, Germany
Georges Wagnieres, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Timothy Zhu, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA