Expertise

• Photodynamic Therapy
• Light Transport
• Near Infrared Tomography
• Medical Physics
• Photochemistry
• Lasar

Experience

Current Activities

• Associate Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
• Research Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine
• Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Member, Radiobiology and Biomedical Engineering Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med. Center

Selected Consulting Projects

• Evaluate biomedical startup company for venture capital investment.
• Developing tissue spectroscopy systems for neonatal hemoglobin and photosensitizer uptake.
• Development of a fluorescent fiberbundle for photosensitizer quantitation in vivo.

Recent Research Activity

• Alternative Methods for Breast Cancer Imaging and Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging of Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer Detection with Frequency Domain Near-Infrared Imaging
• Near Infrared/MR System for Imaging Brain Oxygenation
• Physical and Biological Determinants for Optimal PDT
• Tissue Response Dosimetry in Photodynamic Therapy
• Breast Cancer Multi-dimensional Diffuse Optical Imaging

Honors & Publications

• Several Patents
• Invited Conference Talks (23)
• Invited Academic Seminars & Talks (8)
• Invited Review Papers & Book Chapters (6)
• Peer-Reviewed Publications (Many)
• Conference Proceedings & Abstracts (Many)

Education

• PhD Medical Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
• MS Physics, York University, North York, ON, Canada
• BS Physics, York University, North York, ON