Prof. Brian W. Pogue

Brian W. Pogue, Ph.D. is the Robert A. Pritzker Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire USA, and is Honorary Fellow in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are in Physics, with Ph.D. in Medical/Nuclear Physics from McMaster University, Canada. He was Research Fellow at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass. General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. At Dartmouth since 1996, he works in the general area of Optics in Medicine, with a focus on novel imaging systems for characterizing cancer and tracking therapy. He was Dean of Graduate Studies at Dartmouth from 2008-2012, and was Chair of the Dept of Medical Physics in Wisconsin from 2022-25. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers and many conference papers in cancer therapy, surgery, medicine, medical oncology, and radiotherapy. His research has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2001 with over $52 million in support. He is Fellow of Optica, AIMBE, AAPM, SPIE and a member of the SPIE Board of Directors. He has founded 3 startup companies, including DoseOptics LLC, making the world’s first camera to image radiotherapy dose delivery as it happens, and Hypoxia Surgical LLC, making innovative cameras to image tissue hypoxia.