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Keith A. Wear received the B.A. degree in Applied Physics from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics, with a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering, from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He is currently a Research Physicist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Dr. Wear is a Life Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He received the 2019 AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award. He served as Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (IEEE-TUFFC) (2019-2021). He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE-TUFFC (2002-2021; 2025-present), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2012-present), and Ultrasonic Imaging (2013-2024). He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Access (2024-present). He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Beijing, China. He was the General Program Chair of the 2017 IEEE IUS, Washington, DC, USA.  He has served as chair of the AIUM Technical Standards Committee (2014-2016), AIUM Bioeffects Committee (2021-2023), AIUM Basic Science and Instrumentation Community (2004-2006 and 2014-2016), and AIUM Therapeutic Ultrasound Community (2013-2015). He is Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 333 on Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound Quality Assurance. He served as an invited instructor in six short courses at the IEEE IUS (2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2023, 2024). His research interests include hydrophone measurement methodology, high intensity therapeutic ultrasound, photoacoustics, and quantitative ultrasound.