Babak Shadgan MD, MSc, PhD, FSPIE

Babak Shadgan is an MD/PhD specialized in sports medicine and muscle biophysics. He received his MD degree in 1994 and a post-graduate Master degree in Sports & Exercise Medicine from the University of London in 2001. A year later he obtained a post-graduate diploma in Football Medicine from the England Football Association. In September 2006, Babak moved to Canada and joined the UBC Faculty of Medicine to start his PhD study on muscle bio-optics.

To extend his knowledge in cutting edge clinical optics, he completed a fellowship on NIRS-Diffused Optical Tomography at Harvard University in 2009. Babak is completing a MSFHR Postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for International collaboration on Repair Discoveries, UBC, Canada. As a sports physician, a medical officer of FILA, an independent observer of WADA and an IOC medical committee researcher, Dr. Shadgan has been actively involved in all summer and winter Olympic Games during the last ten years.

A senior member of the International Society of Optics & Photonics, Shadgan was recognized as the top graduate researcher of 2010 in the field of optics & photonics for developing several optical diagnostic methods in medicine. He is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship at ICORD and UBC Hospital on optical monitoring of bladder function in people with spinal cord injury.