Keith A. Wear is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received the 2019 AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award. He has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for IEEE Trans Ultrason., Ferroelect,, & Freq. Contr. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Ultrasonic Imaging. 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, AIUM Bioeffects Committee, AIUM Basic Science and Instrumentation Community, and AIUM Therapeutic Ultrasound Community. He is Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group 333 on Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound Quality Assurance. His research interests include hydrophone measurement methodology, high intensity therapeutic ultrasound, photoacoustics, and quantitative ultrasound.