Advancing Care of the Diabetic Foot

Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance

Bijan Najafi, PhD 

Assistant Professor and Director 
Human Performance Laboratory
Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR)

bijan.najafi@rosalindfranklin.edu

Dr. Najafi, is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomechanics at the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory in the Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR) at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He has almost a decade of experience in the development ambulatory devices based on body-wearable sensor technology integrated with biomechanical model of human body for human movement analysis, and in particular, in the evaluation of risk of falling and fall prevention among elderly subjects. He has been involved in various multidisciplinary national and European projects on characterizing changes in moving ability in terms of type of pathology: osteoarthritis, balance, pain and movement disorder, etc. He is also an associate of Harvard-School of Engineering and applied Sciences, invited expert at the European network in fall prevention in elderly people (ProFANE) and member of several professional associations in orthopedics, biosignal processing and neuroscience. Prior to joining Rosalind Franklin University, he was a research fellow with the Harvard NeuroMotor Control Lab, Lecturer, and senior researcher with the Laboratory of Movement analysis and measurement (LMAM) in the Swiss Federal Institute of technology (EPFL), where he received also his PhD in field of Biomedical Engineering. During his research career, he was the author and co-author of more than 60 scientific publications with more than 250 citations, and reviewer for several international journals such as Gait & Posture, Journal of Biomechanics, IEEE transactions on Biomedical Eng., IEEE signal processing letters, IEEE transactions on Neural systems and Rehabilitation Eng.

Human Performance Laboratory