Dr. Pogue is an expert on innovations in medical imaging systems and is the chair of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. His research is within medical physics and biomedical engineering, with a core theme of advanced optical tools that allow for advances in surgical and radiation therapy guidance, photodynamic therapy, molecular imaging, and theranostics, which is the cutting-edge combination of the principles of therapeutics and diagnostics.

Pogue has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and taught classes in electrical and biomedical engineering. An accomplished inventor, Pogue holds 12 patents with another 12 pending, and has co-founded and led two companies, including DoseOptics LLC, which is advancing the world’s only camera system to image radiation dose in patients receiving radiotherapy. His accolades include being elected as a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, published by SPIE.