Mark Schafer, PhD – Senior Acoustic Consultant

Dr. Schafer has been a pioneer and leader in the field of diagnostic ultrasound since the mid 1980′s. He was a senior scientist at Interspec; an ultrasound company purchased by ATL (which was subsequently purchased by Philips) in the mid-1990′s. Dr. Schafer is the world’s leading expert in ultrasound acoustic measurement technology and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and was also recently named a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Dr. Schafer obtained his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was awarded his doctorate, in Biomedical Engineering, from Drexel University.