Email

bijan.najafi@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor of Surgery

Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine

Director, Clinical Research

Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Department of Surgery

Member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

iCAMP (Lab)

McNair Campus
Rm B01.532
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-7536
bijan.najafi@bcm.edu
http://www.bcm.edu/icamp

Education

PhD from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Lausanne, Switzerland

Biomedical Engineering

MSc from Sharif University of Technology

Tehran, Iran

Biomedical Engineering

BSc from Isfahan University of Technology

Isfahan, Iran

Electrical Engineering

Professional Statement

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 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 healthy state of patients with locomotor dysfunctions, over 200 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals or conference proceeding. 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 of 2019 (re. Loannidis et al, PLOS Biology, 2020).

Websites

Selected Publications

• Toosizadeh N, Mohler J, Najafi B "Assessing Upper Extremity Motion: An Innovative Method to Identify Frailty." J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015;63(6):1181-6. doi: 10..; Pubmed PMID: 26096391
• Schwenk M, Grewal GS, Honarvar B, Schwenk S, Mohler J, Khalsa DS, Najafi B "Interactive balance training integrating sensor-based visual feedback of movement performance: a pilot study in older adults." J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2014;11:164. doi: 10.1186.; Pubmed PMID: 25496052
• Toosizadeh N, Mohler J, Lei H, Parvaneh S, Sherman S, Najafi B "Motor Performance Assessment in Parkinson's Disease: Association between Objective In-Clinic, Objective In-Home, and Subjective/Semi-Objective Measures." PloS one. 2015;10(4):e0124763. doi: 10.1371/j.; Pubmed PMID: 25909898
• Najafi B, Armstrong DG, Mohler J "Novel wearable technology for assessing spontaneous daily physical activity and risk of falling in older adults with diabetes." ; Pubmed PMID: 24124940