Starting 2 June, SPIE Members eligible to vote can select four new directors, a vice president, and a secretary/treasurer. Directors will serve three-year terms and officers will serve for one year, beginning 1 January 2022. Candidates for vice president are SPIE Fellows Jennifer Barton, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the BIO5 Institute at University of Arizona, and Kristen Maitland, associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Microscopy and Imaging Center at Texas A&M University.
Jennifer Barton (left) and Kristen Maitland (right) are candidates for 2022 SPIE vice president.
Barton is known for her development of miniature endoscopes that combine multiple optical imaging techniques, particularly optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy. Her research into light-tissue interaction and dynamic optical properties of blood laid the groundwork for a novel therapeutic laser to treat disorders of the skin's blood vessels. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers in these research areas.
Barton has a long history with SPIE, including serving on its Board of Directors and on various committees including the Engineering, Science, and Technology Policy Committee and the Membership and Communities Committee. She was session chair at SPIE Photonics West, and SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics. Barton's awards include the 1997 DJ Lovell Scholarship and the 2016 SPIE President's Award.
Maitland's research focuses on the development of optical imaging and sensing technologies for the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. She is recognized as a leader in multimodal optical imaging and an expert in endoscopic microscopy.
Maitland performed clinical studies at MD Anderson Cancer Center on precancers of the cervix and oral cavity. Following her PhD, she worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a staff scientist, where she constructed a coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectrometer using a single laser as the pump beam and to pump a photonic crystal fiber to produce a broadband Stokes beam.
Maitland serves on the editorial board of the SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics. She has also served on the Board of Directors, and program committees for conferences in SPIE Photonics West and SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics.
The person elected vice president for 2022 will join the SPIE presidential chain, becoming SPIE president-elect in 2023 and president of the Society in 2024.
Jason Mulliner, CFO at Alluxa (USA), is the candidate for secretary/treasurer. Mulliner, who is the current SPIE treasurer, has also served as a judge for the SPIE Startup Challenge, and serves on the SPIE Committees for Compensation; Engineering, Science, and Technology Policy; Financial Advisory; and Strategic Planning.
Director candidates are:
Audrey Bowden, Vanderbilt University (USA)
Gong-Ru Lin, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Mark Clampin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA)
Allison Barto, Ball Aerospace (USA)
Craig Olson, L3Harris (USA)
Rebecca Fahrig, Siemens Healthineers (Germany)
Reinhard Voelkel, Süss MicroOptics (Switzerland)
Mark Tolbert, TOPTICA Photonics Inc. (USA)
Voting will close on 22 July 2021.
