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Charles A. Cain is the Richard A. Auhll Professor of Engineering and Founding Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He received the B.E.E. (highest honors) degree in 1965 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; the M.S.E.E. degree in 1966 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engi- neering in 1972 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was an Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, for 17 years and was Chair of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Bioengineering Program before moving to Michigan. His current research area is biomedical ultrasonics. He and his students were pioneers in the use of large aperture ultrasound phased arrays for therapeu- tic applications including the technique that has been given the name “Histotripsy”.
Lawrence A. Crum (with his 4 year old granddaughter) is currently Principal Physicist and Founder/Former Director of the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound in the Applied Physics Laboratory, and Research Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He has held previous positions at Harvard University, the U. S. Naval Academy, and the University of Mississippi, where he was F. A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Physics and Director of the National Center for Physical Acoustics. He has published over 200 articles in professional journals, holds an honorary doctorate from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and was awarded the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Ultrasound/ Bioresponse to Vibration of the Acoustical Society of America (2000). He is Past President of the Acoustical Society of America, the Board of the International Commission for Acoustics, and the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound. His principal areas of interest are physical acoustics and image-guided therapy.
Jeffery Brian Fowlkes received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas in 1983, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi in 1986 and 1988, respectively, both in physics. He is cur- rently a Professor of Radiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michagan and is directing and conduct- ing research in medical ultrasound including the use of gas bubbles for diag- nostic and therapeutic applications. He has over 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications and over 250 abstract pre- sentations. Dr. Fowlkes is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering and the Acoustical Society of America. He has served as Secretary and as a member of the Board of Governors of AIUM and worked with the IEEE I&M Society Technical Committee on Imaging Systems. He also received the AIUM Presidential Recognition Award and the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award in Basic Science.
Zhen Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received the B.S.E. (highest honors) degree in biomedical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2001, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 2003 and 2005, respectively, both in biomedical engineering. Her research focuses on ultrasound therapy, particularly the applications of histotripsy for noninvasive surgeries. She received the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Outstanding Paper Award in 2006; American Heart Association (AHA) Outstanding research in Pediatric Cardiology in 2010; and the National Institute of Health (NIH) New Investigator Award at the First National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Symposium in 2011.
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