DOUGLAS CHRISTENSEN

Douglas A. Christensen received the B.S.E.E. degree from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 1962, the M.S. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1963, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1967. From 1972 to 1974, he held a special National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctorate position in biomedical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has been a Faculty Member at the University of Utah since 1971. He currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the author of Ultrasonic Bioinstrumentation (New York: Wiley, 1988), coauthor of Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics (Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1999), and author of Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics and Bioelectricity (Morgan & Claypool, 2009). His major research interests are in the use of waves in bioengineering, including modeling and measurements in therapeutic ultrasound, and optical biosensors.