Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee

Leadership

Chair

Julianna C. Simon
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Acoustics
The Pennsylvania State University
jcsimon@psu.edu

Biomedical Acoustics Committee Representatives

Bob McGough, Membership
Vera A. Khokhlova, Medals and Awards
Julianna C. Simon, Archives and History
Vera A. Khokhlova, Committee Chair on International Research and Education (CIRE)
Wayne E. Kreider, ASACOS

Student Council Representative

Chirag A. Gokani
PhD student, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
chiragokani@utexas.edu

Student Poster Competition Subcommittee

Yashwanth Nanda Kumar, chair
PhD student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
ynandaku@uw.edu

Ga Won (Jenny) Kim
PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering
Drexel University
gk454@drexel.edu

Grace M. Wood
PhD student, Graduate Program in Acoustics
The Pennsylvania State University
gmw5253@psu.edu

Kenneth B. Bader
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
University of Chicago
baderk@uchicago.edu

Kevin Haworth
Associate Professor, College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
hawortkn@ucmail.uc.edu

Matthew J. Olmstead
PhD student, Graduate Program in Acoustics
The Pennsylvania State University
mjo5585@psu.edu

Siaka Federa
PhD student, Chen Ultrasound Laboratory
Washington University in St. Louis
s.fadera@wustl.edu

Past BATC leadership

Past chairs	Term
John Erdreich	1984 — 1987
Anthony J. Brammer	1987 — 1990
Ronald T. Verrillo	1990 — 1993
Janet M. Weisenberger	1993 — 1996
Ronald A. Roy	1996 — 1999
E. Carr Everbach	1999 — 2002
Robin C. Cleveland	2002 — 2005
Michael R. Bailey	2005 — 2008
Jeffrey A. Ketterling	2008 — 2011
Robert J. McGough	2011 — 2014
Nathan J. McDannold	2014 — 2017
Subha Maruvada	2017 — 2020
Kenneth B. Bader	2020 — 2023
Past Student Council representatives	Term
Sandy Poliachik	2000 — 2002
Tyrone Porter	2002 — 2005
Neil Owen	2005 — 2006
Michael Canney	2006 — 2008
Lucie Somaglino	2008 — 2010
Derek Thomas	2010 — 2012
Jason L. Raymond	2012 — 2014
Camilo Perez	2014 — 2015
Vacant	2015 — 2016
Sanjay Yengul	2016 — 2017
Tao Sun	2017 — 2018
Asis Lopez	2018 — 2021
Megan S. Anderson	2021 — 2023