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Job Info

Employer:
Harvard Medical School,  Massachusetts General Hospital

Position Type:
Education
Research

Brett E. Bouma 's Job:
He teaches at Massachusetts General Hospital.  He has also established several active collaborations within the Massachusetts General Hospital,  conducting clinical studies in Gastroenterology,  Urology,  Otolaryngology,  Cardiology,  Dermatology and Gynecology within the Wellman Laboratories for Photomedicine.

His research interests are primarily focused on the development and validation of new optical methods for disease diagnosis.  His research has contributed substantially to the development of new imaging modalities,  including optical coherence tomography (OCT),  spectrally encoded confocal microscopy and spectrally encoded endoscopy.

Career Facts

Employer Type:
Medical

Physics Degree:
Doctorate

Educational Information

He earned his B.S in Physics from Hope College and his M.S in Physics from Michigan State University.  In 1993,  he earned his PhD in Physics from University of Illinois at Chicago.

More about Brett E. Bouma

Brett E. Bouma 's home page:
http://hst.mit.edu/public/people/faculty/facultyBiosketch.jsp?key=Bouma

Direct link to Brett E. Bouma 's profile:
http://www.hope.edu/academic/natsci/news_events/brochure.pdf

Biography:

He is currently employed through Harvard Medical School where he is an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Health Sciences & Technology.  He is also employed through Massachusetts General Hospital in the Wellman Laboratories for Photomedicine.