Prof. Babak Shadgan
Assistant Professor at International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries
SPIE Involvement:
Conference Chair | Conference Program Committee | Author | Editor | Instructor | Special Event Speaker
Area of Expertise:
Clinical Biophotonics , Optical Diagnostics , Implantable Biosensors , Sports Medicine , Musculoskeletal Medicine , Muscle Biophysics
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Profile Summary

Dr. Babak Shadgan is an SPIE Fellow member. He is a medical doctor specialized in Sports Medicine and Clinical Biophotonics. Dr. Shadgan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics, the University of British Columbia with an Associate Faculty appointment at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering. He received his MD degree in 1994, an MSc in sports medicine from the University of London in 2001 and a Ph.D. in clinical biophotonics from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2011. He also completed a fellowship on NIRS-Diffused Optical Tomography at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging of MIT/Harvard University. His postdoctoral fellowship at ICORD (the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries) was focused on remote optical monitoring of bladder dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury. With more than two decades of medical practice and research Babak has developed a specific knowledge in clinical biophotonics with a unique bedside-to-bench approach. His current research focuses on advancing novel implantable and wearable methods for real-time monitoring of internal organ and tissue hemodynamics, metabolism, and function in health and diseases. As an Olympic sports physician and medical director, Babak is actively working on sports and exercise applications of Biophotonics. He is currently involved in developing optical diagnostics and monitoring interventions in Sports Medicine and Exercise Sciences. Dr. Shadgan chairs "Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables" BIOS Conference and teaches “Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology in Biomedical Engineering” at SPIE.
Publications (38)

Proceedings Article | 10 April 2024 Presentation + Paper
Arshdeep Khurana, Christopher Nguan, Kourosh Afshar, Purang Abolmaesumi, Babak Shadgan
Proceedings Volume 12817, 128170F (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3003340
KEYWORDS: Kidney, Tissues, Oxygenation, Transplantation, Hemodynamics, Surgery, Biopsy, Adipose tissue, Oxygen, Near infrared spectroscopy

Proceedings Article | 12 March 2024 Presentation + Paper
Mehdi Nouri Zadeh, Aaron Mah, Justin K. Wyss, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Lazarevik, Arshdeep Khurana, Babak Shadgan
Proceedings Volume 12838, 1283809 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3000084
KEYWORDS: Oxygenation, Muscles, Near infrared spectroscopy, Prefrontal cortex, Brain, Tissues, Oxygen, Sensors, Brain tissue, Mode conditioning cables

Proceedings Article | 28 April 2023 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12482, 124820B (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2658489
KEYWORDS: Design and modelling, Sensors, Dielectrics, Injuries, Detector arrays, Capacitance, Prototyping, Polydimethylsiloxane, Electrodes

Proceedings Article | 6 March 2023 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12375, 123750C (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2668817
KEYWORDS: Near infrared spectroscopy, Sensors, Tissues, Surgery, Neck, Head, Oxygenation, Hemodynamics, Optical sensing, Pulse signals

Proceedings Article | 6 March 2023 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12375, 123750B (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2668675
KEYWORDS: Near infrared spectroscopy, Muscles, Heart, Sensors, Blood, Oxygenation, Oxygen, Education and training, Wearable devices, Injuries

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Proceedings Volume Editor (5)

Conference Committee Involvement (28)
Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics
27 January 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables VI
25 January 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Advanced Photonics in Urology 2025
25 January 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXIV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics
29 January 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Advanced Photonics in Urology 2024
27 January 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
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Course Instructor
SC1205: Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology in Optical Diagnostics
This course is a critical and fundamental introduction to main pathophysiologic processes across the human body, emphasizing on optics and photonics engineering approaches for innovative design and development of novel methods and devices to screen, detect, diagnose and monitor clinical conditions. The majority of human diseases are rooted in one of the few main pathological processes such as inflammation, infection, atrophy, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, ischemia and hypoxia. Understanding the basics, natures, mechanisms, specifications and effects of these main pathologic processes on human body structure and function helps biophotonics engineers and researchers to better comprehend contemporary methods of detection and management of these conditions. This knowledge enables them to theorize, innovate and design new optical techniques and devices for diagnosis and monitoring of pathologic conditions in different organ systems. Such an approach will also enable engineers to extrapolate standard diagnostic techniques from one to other organs for various disorders that are similar in pathology. This should be considered as a critical and necessary skill in modern biomedical engineering. This course aims to provide this essential intuition.
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