Babak Shadgan

Dr. Babak Shadgan is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), an associate faculty member at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering and a principal investigator at ICORD, where he is directing the Implantable Biosensing Laboratory. 

Dr. Shadgan is a medical doctor specialized in sports and exercise medicine, graduated from the Queen Mary College of the University of London, with a PhD in experimental medicine from UBC. He completed a fellowship on NIRS-Diffused Optical Tomography at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging of MIT/Harvard University. His post-doctoral fellowship at UBC was focused on remote optical monitoring of muscle dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury. With more than two decades of medical practice and research, Dr. Shadgan has developed a specific knowledge in clinical applications of biosensing technologies with a unique integrated transitional bedside-to-bench and bench-to-bedside approach. He is actively working on design and development of novel wearable and implantable biosensors and their applications in health and diseases. 

Dr. Shadgan is a fellow member, an instructor and a conference chair at the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He is an advocate of multidisciplinary networking and collaborations between biomedical engineering and clinical scientists for innovative and applied technology development in medicine. 

As an Olympic sports physician leading the Medical & Anti-Doping Commission of the International Federation of Olympic Styles Wrestling (UWW), Dr. Shadgan has been serving elite athletes at world championships and Olympic Games since 2002. He is also actively working on design and development of novel wearable sport monitoring biosensors and their applications in sports and exercise medicine.