Pogue Named Editor of SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics

Brian Pogue of Dartmouth University has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) starting January 1, 2018. The journal is published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Pogue will succeed Lihong Wang of the California Institute of Technology, who has served as JBO editor-in-chief since 2010.

Pogue is professor of Engineering Science and director of M..S and Ph.D. programs at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering in Hanover, N.H.. He is also adjunct professor in Physics and Astronomy and in Surgery at Dartmouth, and director of their Medical Physics program. He retains an appointment as visiting research scientist at the Wellman Laboratories for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital ever since being a post-doctoral research fellow there in 1995-96. He completed his Ph.D. in medical/nuclear physics at McMaster University in Canada.

Pogue is a fellow of The Optical Society and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and served as chair of the NIH Biomedical Imaging Technology grant review study section.

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technology.