Optical microsystems for disease diagnosis: an interview with Guillermo Tearney

Abstract

JOM Associate Editor Dr. Hui Min Leung of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital interviews Dr. Guillermo (Gary) Tearney, the Remondi Family Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He maintains a lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. With the use of advanced endomicroscopy technologies, Tearney’s lab performs development and clinical validation of non-invasive, high-resolution optical imaging methods for human disease diagnosis. Through this interview, he described how he got into the field and how important and relevant optical microsystems are to those research projects. He also gave his thoughts on the future of the field and the grand challenges that remain to be tackled.