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)	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	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	Professor	Liquid crystals and nanomaterials; cellulose nanocrystals; biofluid mechanics; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; computational fluid dynamics; rheology and tribology.
	Matthias Gӧrges mgoerges@bcchr.ca	Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Therapeutics	Associate Professor (Partner)	Patient monitoring alarms, medical displays, decision support systems, mobile health applications, and data integration/communication platforms.
	Ilker Hacihaliloglu ilker.hacihaliloglu@ubc.ca	Radiology	Assistant Professor	Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, ultrasound imaging, image-guided surgery, computer-aided diagnostics, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, traumatic brain injury, brain health, chronic disease, liver and lung disease, endometriosis.
	Jane Hill jane.hill@ubc.ca	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Professor	Metabolomics, transcriptomics, diagnostics, infectious disease, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, mass spectrometry, chromatography, MEMS.
	Antony Hodgson ahodgson@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Professor	Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery; real-time 3D ultrasound imaging; mini-robotic devices and simulations for surgical accuracy & efficiency; human eye model for sensorimotor studies.
	Aly Karsan akarsan@bcgsc.ca	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	Professor	Myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematopoietic system development, toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways, Notch signaling pathway.
	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.
	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.
	Sabrina Leslie sabrina.leslie@msl.ubc.ca	Physics & Astronomy	Associate Professor	DNA, RNA and protein interactions and dynamics; therapeutic oligonucleotides; nano-characterization and analytics; DNA super-structure; polymers under confinement.
	Hongshen Ma hongma@mech.ubc.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Associate Professor	Microfabrication, microfluidics, instrumentation, product development, data analytics and visualization; development of new technologies for cell sorting, cell deformability, chemotaxis, single cell sequencing, and image cytometry; application of technologies to evaluate blood quality, test immune cell function, personalize cancer therapies, and expedite antimalarial drug development.
	John Madden jmadden@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Artificial muscle and application to medical devices, photosynthetic photovoltaics, super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube devices.
	Freda Miller freda.miller@msl.ubc.ca	Michael Smith Laboratories & Medical Genetics	Professor Canada Research Chair, Developmental Neurobiology	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 sjo@ubc.ca	Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences	Professor	The immune system, eye inflammation and age-related macular degeneration
	Josef Penninger josef.penninger@ubc.ca	Medical Genetics	Professor Canada 150 Chair (Functional Genetics)	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.
	Eitan Prisman eitan.prisman@ubc.ca	Otolaryngology	Clinical Associate Professor	Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Microvascular Facial Plastic Reconstruction, Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery, Endocrine surgery, Airway Reconstruction, Salivary Gland Malignancy, Cutaneous Malignancy
	Arman Rahmim arman.rahmim@ubc.ca	Radiology	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 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	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.
	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.
	Vesna Sossi vesna@phas.ubc.ca	Physics and Astronomy	Professor	Algorithm and instrumentation development; multi-modal imaging analysis in Parkinson’s disease, neurodegeneration; PET/MRI in discovering new markers for brain energetics and interactions between hemodynamic and metabolic networks.
	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	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.
	Fidel Vila-Rodriguez fidel.vilarodriguez@ubc.ca	Psychiatry	Assistant Professor	Clinical applications of Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies (NINETs); neurobiology of psychiatric disorders
	Konrad Walus konradw@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations.
	Jane Z. Wang zjanew@ece.ubc.ca	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Professor	Statistical signal processing for information security, biomedical imaging, genomic and wireless communications; model-based genomic/proteomic signal processing for cancer classification/prediction, modeling of genetic regulatory networks by incorporating genomic data sources, identification of cell-cycle related genes.
	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	Hip, knee and spine mechanics; causes and treatments of osteoarthritis; medical imaging 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.