Isaac Pence received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2016. He then moved to Imperial College London to complete a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellowship before joining the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Laboratory for Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School for additional postdoctoral training. In 2022 Dr. Pence joined UT Southwestern Medical Center as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with secondary appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, as well as an adjunct Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at UT Dallas. His work has focused on the development and translation of noninvasive optical monitoring devices for applications including surgical guidance, disease characterization, and drug delivery that have led to 4 patents and 1 FDA approved device. In 2023 he was awarded the American Heart Association’s Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award. His lab is focused on the development and translation of optical spectroscopy and imaging tools to address outstanding challenges in medicine including a specific focus on noninvasive assessment of chronic kidney disease and mechanical changes in the pelvic floor.