James Wiskin

Dr. Wiskin was co-founder of the winner of the 2005 Stoel-Rives Innovation Award for Medical Devices and shared “Utah Best of State” Science and Technology: Medical Innovation, which was then acquired by QT Imaging in 2012. As Principal Scientist he was involved in the FDA clearance for the first transmission ultrasound tomography of the breast and is actively involved in orthopedic/whole-body cutting-edge research, quantitative breast imaging, and analysis of images.

Dr. Wiskin is an author/co-author on 14 Patents, with several additional patents pending, and he has over 100 peer reviewed papers, book chapters, and presentations, including anchor talks at IEEE and Acoustical Society of America International Symposia.

He has studied the mathematics and physics of wave propagation (EM, acoustic, elastic, quantum) and inverse scattering for over 35 years, and has been elected to the SPIE Medical Imaging Ultrasound Tomography Conference Steering Committee and the IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium Medical Ultrasound Technical Program Committee.

Dr. Wiskin received a Bachelor of Mathematics (Honors, Math & Physics) from the University of Waterloo, Canada, a MSc in Biomathematics from Dalhousie University, Canada, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Utah. He has also received a Descartes Fellowship, University of Waterloo, Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Utah, and was co-author of “Best Paper of the year,” in Computers. and Chemical Eng.