NewsEtc., July, 1998. Steven Jacques, Oregon Medical Laser Center
The young and old in the field of Biomedical Lasers and Optics met for the biennial Gordon Research Conference in Medicine and Biology. This group first met in 1965 assembling many of the early investigators who were working to develop medical uses of lasers and light in medicine. Every other year the group has gathered to compare notes on emerging applications and unresolved basic science issues. The meeting is confidential which allows unpublished work to be presented for a preview of cutting-edge projects under development.
Morning and evening sessions are held and the afternoons are free for basketball, soccer, canoeing, hiking, fishing, etc. The robust late-night session from 10-12 PM is a free-for-all of discussion and argumentative fun lubricated by beer. The 5-day conference is held at a high school level boarding school (Kimball Union Academy, New Hampshire), attendees stay in the dorms and all meals are provided as part of registration. The GRC is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-docs to talk at length with the investigators in our field, and vice versa for investigators to learn from the brightest young people entering our field. The meeting is highly recommended.
The rules of the conference are that EVERYTHING IS CONFIDENTIAL, NOTHING IS CITABLE, and there are NO PHOTOS ALLOWED. So I can't tell you about all the fascinating topics and discussions at this year's meeting, both the lectures and the poster sessions. But the schedule of speakers was published on the WEB at the GRC website and is here reproduced to partially archive the topics covered by the meeting.
Schedule of talks at the 1998 GRC on Lasers in Medicine and Biology.
Joe Izatt, Chair Willem Starr, Co-Chair | Lasers in Medicine and Biology June 14-19, 1998 | Kimball Union Academy Meriden, New Hampshire, USA |
1. Raimund Hibst 2. David Sliney 3. Vanitha Sankaran 4. Eva Sevick-Muraca 5. David Boas 6. Vasan Venugopalan 7. Gerd Hausler 8. Myron L. Wolbarsht 9. Willem Star 10. Joseph Izatt 11. Alexander Oraevsky 12. Mary-Ann Mycek 13. Dan Jay 14. Shabbir Bambot 15. Tony Raven 16. Alfred Vogel 17. Reginald Birngruber 18. Rudolf Verdaasdonk 19. Angela Baumgartner 20. Changhuei Yang 21. Ben Ovryn 22. Joon S. You 23. Harry Zwick 24. Andrew Dunn 25. Dilip Paithankar 26. Andrew Berger 27. Brian Pogue 28. John Parrish 29. Alexei Lukashev 30. J. Stuart Nelson 31. Steven L. Jacques 32. Abraham Levy 33. Fabrice Manns 34. Rebecca Richards-Kortum 35. Federic Durville 36. Gennady Rubinstein 37. Jennifer Barton 38. Jay Walsh 39. Charles Lin 40. Josh Pfefer 41. Boris Majaron 42. ??? |
43. ??? 44. Gereon Huettmann 45. Duncan Maitland 46. Kester Nahen 47. Franz Hillenkamp 48. Benno Radt 49. Sharon Thomsen 50. Balasigamani Devaraj 51. Nobuo Shimamoto 52. Robert Godwin 53. Jeffery S. Reynolds 54. Tamara Troy 55. Judy Mourant 56. Karin Kunzi-Rapp 57. Johann Roider 58. Greg Burke 59. Claesaf Klinteberg 60. David Cohen 61. Christiaan van Swol 62. E. Duco Jansen 63. Irving Bigio 64. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen 65. Marta L. Dark 66. Ralf Brinkmann 67. Wei D. Tian 68. ??? 69. Zhongping Chen 70. Karen Shafer 71. Kai Zhang 72. Ilko Ilev 73. David Royston 74. ??? 75. Ron Waynant 76. Woody Ediger 77. Dan Fried 78. Urs Utzinger 79. Nathaniel Fried 80. ??? |
81. Henricus Sterenborg 82. Stefan Andersson-Engels 83. Richard Straight 84. Ton van Leeuwen 85. Theodore Papazoglou 86. ??? 87. Brett Hooper 88. Wei-Chiang Lin 89. Bruce Tromberg 90. Mathieu Ducros 91. Maria Franceschini 92. ??? 93. Martin Shim 94. ??? 95. Costas M. Pitsillides 96. Andrew Rollins 97. Siavash Yazdanfar 98. Brian McIlroy 99. Ujwal Sathyam 100. Frank Fischer 101. Lothar Lilge 102. Robert Weersink 103. Jon Viator 104. Peter Klopotek 105. Tom Flotte 106. Alex Vitkin 107. Gunther Paltauf 108. Stephen Mulhollano 109. Mark Modell 110. Tony Durkin 111. James Hsia 112. Nikiforos Kollias 113. Tuan H. Pham 114. Scott Prahl 115. Carrie Brookner 116. Brian Wilson 117. Rebekah Drezek 118. Gracie Vargas 119. Mel Judy 120. Tae-Woong Koo |
Bahmin Anvari Paul Baas Rox Anderson Vadim Backman Greg Bearman M J Block Brett Bouma Mark Brezinski Pina Colarusso Luiz B. da Silva Johannes de Boer Daniel Farkas Michael Feld Tayyaba Hasan Phil Haydon Stefan W. Hell Christoph Hitzenberger |
Robert Hoffman Gereon Huettmann Beop-Min Kim Mladen Korbelik James Lepock Mike Marron Tsuyoshhi Nishisaka Barry Payne Adrian Podoleanu Gerwin Puppels Bjorn Quistorff E. Victor Ross Wim Sluiter Vincent P. Wallace Tony Wilson Aleksandr Zelenchuck |
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