The Southern Medical Association (SMA) is proud to feature J. Quincy Brown, PhD, as the Keynote Speaker for SMA's 117th Annual Scientific Assembly in New Orleans. Dr. Brown's presentation will take place on Friday, November 14, at 8:00 am.

An Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University, Dr. Brown received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 2001 and 2005, respectively.  This was followed by an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University.  He is a biomedical engineer whose career has been focused on the development and translation of light-based sensing and imaging technologies in medicine. As director of the Translational Biophotonics Laboratory at Tulane, major themes in his current research are the use of novel imaging devices and computational analysis tools to improve patient outcomes in surgical tumor removal in organs where positive surgical margins are a factor affecting patient co-morbidity and prognosis; rapid screening of biopsies at the bedside for maximizing biospecimen quality for diagnosis and personalized medicine; and new technologies and applications for human-machine interaction in real-time hybrid analog-digital pathology.

Most recently, Dr. Brown and his team were selected as an awardee of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Precision Surgical Interventions program.  The project, called MAGIC-SCAN, is seeking to develop an end-to-end, human + AI collaborative rapid microscopic scanner for comprehensive pathologic imaging of resected tumors in the operating room.