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From left to right: Oleg Sapozhnikov, Adam Maxwell, Vera Khokhlova, and Michael Bailey
Adam D. Maxwell received his M.S. degree in electrical engi- neering in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering in 2012 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2006 from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Urology and Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. His research interests include development of focused ultrasound therapy, nonlinear acoustics, acoustic cav- itation, ultrasound metrology, and ultrasound transducer technology. He is a Member of the Acoustical Society of America (since 2011) and a Member of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (since 2008). He has received Best Student Paper Awards from the Acoustical Society of America in 2005 and at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in 2009.
Vera A. Khokhlova received her M.S. degree in physics in 1986 and Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in acoustics in 1991 and 2012, respectively, from Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Acoustics of the Physics Faculty of MSU and she is also a Senior Principal Engineer of the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research interests are in the field of nonlinear acoustics, therapeutic ultrasound including metrology and bioeffects of high intensity focused ultrasound fields, shock wave focusing, nonlinear wave propagation in inhomogeneous media, and nonlinear modeling. She is a Member of the Executive Council (since 2012) and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (since 2008); a Member of the Board of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (2004 – 2008, 2011 – present time), a Member of the “Physical Ultrasound” division of the Scientific Council on Acoustics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2009).
Oleg A. Sapozhnikov received his M.S. degree in physics in 1985 and Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in acoustics in 1988 and 2008, respectively, from Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Acoustics of the Physics Faculty of MSU and he is also affiliat- ed with the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the University of Washington in Seattle as a Senior Principal Engineer. His research interests are in the field of physical acoustics, nonlinear wave phenomena, medical ultrasound including shock wave lithotripsy, high intensity focused ultrasound, and ultrasound- based imaging. He is a Member of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (since 2001), Member of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics (since 2008), Head of the “Physical Ultrasound” division of the Scientific Council on Acoustics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2009), a Fellow (since 2009) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (since 2007).
MichaelR.BaileyreceivedhisB.S.in1991fromYaleandM.S.in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Texas in Austin, all in mechanical engineering. He is currently a Senior Principal Engineer at the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of the Applied Physics Laboratory and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. His research areas are cavitation, shock wave lithotripsy, HIFU, and ultrasound imaging; currently, his energy is focused on develop- ing ultrasound-based technology to reposition kidney stones. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA, since 2006). He served on the Board of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU, 2008-2011), the Bioeffects Committee of the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, and the Biomedical and Physical Acoustics Technical Committees of the ASA (2005-2008). He received Bruce Lindsay Early Career Award from ASA in 2004 for contributions to the understanding of shock wave lithotripsy and nonlinear acoustics and Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award from the ISTU in 2005.
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