Bijan Najafi PhD, MSc

Dr. Najafi is currently serving with the Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery as a tenured Professor and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Director of NSF Center to Stream HealthCare in Place (C2SHIP), and Director of Interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance (iCAMP). He is also serving as an adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, and an Adjunct Professor at the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

He completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech (Lausanne, Switzerland), and in Neuroscience at Harvard University, Neuromotor Control Lab. Dr. Najafi’s career has focused on developing technologies that improve stability, healing, and mobility worldwide through research and the mentorship of young scientists and engineers and collaboration with clinical and industrial partners. He has over two decades of experience in designing bio-inspired sensors for objective evaluation of the healthy state of patients with locomotor dysfunctions, over 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings. He worked with a wide network of clinical and bioengineering collaborators across the globe primarily in the clinical areas of falls, frailty, gait, digital health, remote patient monitoring, telehealth, ergonomic/posture, dementia, and diabetes and diabetic foot ulcers.

He also serves as Editor, Associate Editor, or guest editor for several scientific journals including Section Editor for Gerontology, ‘Technological Section’, Associate Editor for PLOS One, and guest editor for Sensors. He received multiple prestigious awards including “the most Influential Health and Medical Leaders” award by Tucson Local Media in 2014. He is also included in the Stanford List of Top 100,000 Scientists (top 2%) in the world in the year 2019 (re. Loannidis et al, PLOS Biology, 2020).