Faculty

Associate Members

Associate Membership in the School of Biomedical Engineering is an unofficial position given to a faculty member outside of the school when there is a need to have a formal arrangement to participate in teaching, research and service. This is not a joint appointment. To request membership please see here for more instructions: Associate Membership Application. Each application will be reviewed by the School’s leadership team.

Notes on Applying for Associate Membership

Term for associate membership is a maximum of 3 years. For renewal, a new application package must be submitted. It is expected that each member participate in at least one teaching and/or service activity (i.e. serve on a SBME committee, other than graduate supervisory committees). This activity must be clearly outline in the letter of intent.

Teaching and Committees

Teaching activities fall under our undergraduate and graduate curriculum umbrellas. Note that our students do take courses in other departments. SBME-specific courses are BMEG. They can be viewed here:

• Undergraduate Curriculum
• Graduate Curriculum

Our list of committees continues to expand as the school itself expands. Below is a list SBME committees:

• Undergrad Curriculum Committee
  
• Undergrad Admissions Committee
  
• Graduate Program Scholarship/Awards Committee
  
• Graduate Program Policy Committee
  
• MEng Admissions Committee
  
• PhD Rotation Committee
  
• Research Awards Committee
• Research Advisory Committee
  
• Faculty Mentorship Committee
• REDI Committee

Current Members:

	Name & Contact Info	Primary Affiliation	Roles	Research Areas
	Purang Abolmaesumi purang@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Canada Research Chair, Tier II (Biomedical Engineering)	Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis.
	Mattia Bacca mbacca@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Assistant Professor	Mechanics of functional materials, such as gecko-inspired adhesives, high toughness elastomers, hydrogels, and nanostructured metal alloys.
	Mark Cembrowski mark.cembrowski@ubc.ca	Cellular & Physiological Sciences	Assistant Professor	Anxiety, Big data, Bioinformatics, Cell types, Computation, CRISPR-Cas9, Fear, Genetics, Modeling, Neural circuits, Neuroscience, Neuroscience of memory, PTSD, RNAseq.
	Mu Chiao muchiao@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Professor	Micro-energy sources, protein-MEMS interaction, MEMS-based photonic devices, design, fabrication and packing of MEMS for biological applications.
	Edward Conway ed.conway@ubc.ca	Medicine	Professor Canada Research Chair (Endothelial Cell Biology) Director, Centre for Blood Research	Molecular links between coagulation and innate immunity; tumor endothelial marker CD248.
	Agnes d'Entremont adentremont@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Associate Professor of Teaching	Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control.
	Guy Dumont guyd@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Co-director, Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine (ECEM)	Orthopaedic biomechanics; human joint kinematics; magnetic resonance imaging of the musculoskeletal system; pediatric orthopedics.
	Leah Edelstein-Keshet keshet@math.ubc.ca	Mathematics	Professor	Mathematics-based study of autoimmune diseases and Alzheimer’s disease.
	Sid Fels ssfels@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Human computer interaction, human 3D biomechanical modeling, speech synthesis, medical applications of modeling, computer vision, interactive arts and music.
	Thalia Field thalia.field@ubc.ca	Medicine	Associate Professor	Clinical trial process improvement, participant recruitment and retention, resource optimization, outcomes selection; telemedicine for remote recruitment and assessment; artificial intelligence to enhance clinical trial efficiency.
	Rafeef Garbi rafeef@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Visual computing in biomedical imaging; computational techniques for efficient, reproducible, accurate and robust analysis of structural and functional multi-dimensional biomedical data.
	Dana Grecov dgrecov@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Associate Professor	Liquid crystals and nanomaterials; cellulose nanocrystals; biofluid mechanics; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; computational fluid dynamics; rheology and tribology.
	Matthias Gӧrges mgorges@cw.bc.ca	Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Therapeutics	Assistant Professor	Patient monitoring alarms, medical displays, decision support systems, mobile health applications, and data integration/communication platforms.
	Jane Hill jane.hill@ubc.ca	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Professor	Metabolomics, transcriptomics, diagnostics, infectious disease, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, mass spectrometry, chromatography, MEMS.
	Aly Karsan akarsan@bcgsc.ca	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	Professor Medical Director, Centre for Clinical Genomics, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency Medical Director, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Cancer Agency	Myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematopoietic system development, toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways, Notch signaling pathway.
	Christian Kastrup ckastrup@msl.ubc.ca	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Associate Professor	Therapeutic control of blood clotting, Alzheimer’s disease, biomaterial synthesis, imaging, patient blood, microfluidics, RNA biotechnology, animal models.
	Jay Kizhakkedathu jay@pathology.ubc.ca	Pathology	Professor	Macromolecular iron sequesters, anticoagulant antidotes, universal blood donor cells, cell-based therapeutic carriers, antithrombotic/antimicrobial surfaces, proteomics.
	Peter Lansdorp plansdor@bccrc.ca	Medical Genetics	Professor	Genome instability in aging and cancer, structural genomic variations, single-cell DNA template strand sequencing.
	Tim Lee tlee@bccrc.ca	Dermatology and Skin Science	Associate Professor	Early detection of skin cancer, epidemiologic research on skin cancer, artificial intelligence for analysis of skin lesion images, hand-held diagnostic imaging devices.
	John Madden jmadden@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Director, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory	Artificial muscle and application to medical devices, photosynthetic photovoltaics, super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube devices.
	Bassam Masri bas.masri@vch.ca	Orthopaedics	Professor Head, Department of Orthopaedics Head, Department of Orthopaedics at Vancouver Acute (Vancouver General and University Hospitals)	Hip and knee reconstruction and replacement; joint replacement outcomes; failure mechanisms of joint replacement; metallurgical response to failed hip replacement.
	Freda Miller freda.miller@msl.ubc.ca	Michael Smith Laboratories & Medical Genetics	Professor Canada Research Chair, Developmental Neurobiology Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children	Neural stem cells; neurotrophin regulation of neuronal survival; growth and connectivity; p53 family in the nervous system; molecular regulation of neurogenesis.
	Tim Murphy timothy.murphy@ubc.ca	Psychiatry	Professor	Structure-function of brain circuits in relation to stroke; CNS synaptic plasticity/physiology mesoscale level; automated mouse brain imaging and brain stimulation.
	Santa Ono santa.ono@ubc.ca	Ophthamology & Visual Sciences; Microbiology & Immunology	Professor UBC President & Vice-Chancellor	Immune system; eye inflammation, age-related macular degeneration; ocular melanoma; retinoblastoma.
	Tom Oxland toxland@icord.org	Orthopaedics & Mechanical Engineering	Professor Canada Research Chair (Spine Biomechanics) Associate Director, Preclinical Discovery Research, ICORD	Experimental and computational studies of spinal cord injury; biomechanical injury threshold; bone-implant interface in the aging spinal column; orthopedic implants.
	Josef Penninger josef.penninger@ubc.ca	Medical Genetics	Professor Canada 150 Chair (Functional Genetics) Director, Life Sciences Institute	Genetic editing; human iPS cell models of disease; organoid cultures; blood vessel engineering; T cell biology; glycoproteomics in cancer; haploid stem cells.
	James Piret james.piret@ubc.ca	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Professor	Biochemical and biomedical engineering, bioreactor, bioprocess, fed-batch, perfusion, hollow fibre, hybridoma, CHO, hematopoietic cells.
	Arman Rahmim arman.rahmim@ubc.ca	Radiology	Associate Professor	Improved cancer diagnosis, prognosis & radiotherapy by quantifying how radiopharmaceuticals, a combination of drugs & radioactive isotopes, precisely target cancer cells, in both imaging and therapy applications; machine learning; radiomics; theranostics.
	Lynn Raymond lynn.raymond@ubc.ca	Psychiatry	Professor Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Louise A. Brown Chair, Neuroscience	Synaptic function in Huntington disease; NMDA-type glutamate receptor and calcium homeostasis in synaptic function; mouse models & automated assessment.
	Robert Rohling rohling@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Director, the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)	New acquisition techniques for 2D and 3D ultrasound, medical image processing, medical image guidance systems, and navigating very large medical image datasets. Applications in diagnostics, anesthesia, surgery, and radiation therapy.
	Tim Salcudean tims@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Canada Research Chair (Intelligent Computer Interface Design) C.A. Laszlo Chair (Biomedical Engineering)	Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design
	Peyman Servati peymans@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Low-cost and flexible photovoltaic (PV) devices, Flexible electronics, Semiconductor nanowires (NWs), Nanostructured electronic films, Nanostructure growth and synthesis, Nanocomposite electronics.
	Babak Shadgan babak.shadgan@ubc.ca	Orthopaedics	Assistant Professor	Biophotonics to study tissue processes, including blood and oxygen supplies, in the clinic; continuous monitoring of spinal cord hemodynamics and oxygenation in acute spinal cord injury; implantable NIRS sensors; sports injury prevention.
	Kenichi Takahata takahata@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor Canada Research Chair (Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS)	Micro/nanofabrication; micromachined sensors and actuators; medical MEMS; nanotechnology; microplasma control; wireless drug delivery chips; smart stents.
	Shuo Tang tang@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy
	Mike Van der Loos vdl@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Associate Professor Associate Head, External and Industry Relations (Mechanical Engineering) Director, Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (ICICS)	Development of mechatronic exercise systems for movement therapy and diagnostic technologies for improved sleep quality; research into human-robot interaction, the neurophysiology of standing balance and the field of roboethics.
	Konrad Walus konradw@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations.
	Alexander Weber aweber@bcchr.ca	Pediatrics	Assistant Professor	Non-invasive imaging for brain to study health and disease; MRI; insults, injuries and diseases of the brain; multimodal imaging techniques.
	Cheryl Wellington cheryl.wellington@ubc.ca	Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	Professor	Genetic and environmental risk factors for dementia; apolipoprotein E (apoE) metabolism; history of traumatic brain injury (TBI); cerebrovascular dysfunction.
	David Wilson david.wilson@ubc.ca	Orthopaedics	Professor Co-Director, Centre for Hip Health & Mobility	Hip, knee and spine mechanics; causes and treatments of osteoarthritis; medical imagine and medical image processing; orthopaedic sports medicine.
	Lyndia Wu lwu@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Assistant Professor	Sensing and data analytics to study biomechanics; brain injury or concussion biomechanics; sensing, modeling, and machine learning; sleep biomechanics.