Hisham Alshaer MSc, MD, PhD

Dr. Alshaer is a physician and a biomedical engineer, who is dedicated to developing intelligent diagnostic and therapeutic medical instrumentation from inception to productization. Also, he has a special interest in electronic embedded design and digital signal processing.

Through collaboration with fellow scientists and engineers, he led the development of several medical instruments, including a portable, self-contained, battery-operated device for home diagnosis of sleep apnea. This project was one of the first to be selected by a government-sponsored program (MaRS EXCITE), which enables the best health technologies to get to market faster. Besides many peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Alshaer is listed as the main inventor of 6 patent families. Throughout his career, he has won 6 academic excellence and entrepreneurial awards and helped to raise significant funding for his projects.

Dr. Alshaer obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in biomedical engineering. He completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the Ottawa Heart Institute and The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. He holds an MD from Marmara University and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.