Dr. Arthur F. Gmitro is a Professor and Department Head of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona. He holds joint appointments as a Professor of Medical Imaging and as Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gmitro received his Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1982 under the mentorshiof Dr. Harrison H Barrett. He was an Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at Yale University from 1982 to 1987 and then returned to join the University of Arizona faculty in 1987. Dr. Gmitro has been involved in medical imaging research for over 40 years and published more than 80 papers in the field. He is the recipient of the Rudolph Kingslake award from SPIE and the Francois Erbsmann prize from IPMI Information Processing in Medical Imaging) Dr. Gmitro is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Gmitro’s major areas of research are in Biomedical Optical Imaging and in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He has done fundamental work on development of these technologies and directs an active research program in these areas. Dr. Gmitro has served as the primary mentor for 23 doctoral and 4 post-doc students. Dr. Gmitro is the founding and current Director of the NIH-supported Training Program in Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy at the University of Arizona. He has developed and co-teaches five graduate level courses in biomedical imaging Biomedical Imaging – BME516, Introduction to Image Science – OPTI536, Advanced Medical Imaging – OPTI/BME 638, and Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics – OPTI/BME 630)