Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Bader on being elected as Chair of the Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Bader has been an active member of the Acoustical Society since the earliest days of his professional career and is particularly pleased to have been nominated and voted on by his peers. The Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee is concerned with the study of the interactions of acoustic waves with biological materials, including cells, tissues, organ systems and entire organisms.