Dr. Brian Wong served as Program Track Chair for the Medical Photonics: Therapeutics and Diagnostics track at the Biomedical Optics Symposium, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and organized by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. The program track encompassed 11 individual meetings within the Biomedical Optics Symposium, which itself draws approximately 3,000 attendees and represents one of the most technically rigorous components of the meeting. The Biomedical Optics Symposium is part of SPIE’s flagship week-long annual symposium, a premier international meeting focused on optics and photonics and their translation into medicine, science, and engineering. With more than 20,000 attendees, it is the largest meeting of its kind in the United States and serves as a major forum for emerging technologies in imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics.

Within this framework, Dr. Wong co-chaired the conference Imaging, Therapeutics, and Advanced Technology in Head and Neck Surgery and Otolaryngology, together with Dr. Justus Ilgner of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Dr. Wong’s research team presented three papers at the meeting, highlighting ongoing translational work at the intersection of biomedical optics and otolaryngology. Featured in the accompanying photograph are Kyle Sugita, a junior research specialist in Dr. Wong’s laboratory, and Sarah Lu, an undergraduate majoring in biomedical engineering. Dr. Wong is also a Fellow of SPIE, an honor conferred on less than 1% of the Society’s membership, recognizing sustained and significant contributions to the field.