Dr. Bijan Najafi is a Full Professor of Surgery at UCLA, specializing in digital health and biotechnologies. He serves as the Research Director of the UCLA Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) and Co-Director of the NSF IUCRC Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP). He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at Harvard University. Dr. Najafi has authored over 300 publications, garnering more than 19,000 citations. In 2022, Expertscape ranked him among the top 1% of experts in his field, which includes digital health, diabetic foot care, and geriatrics research. In recognition of his pioneering contributions to digital health technologies for preventing falls and limb gangrene, he was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows in 2023.