Stephen Boppart

U-Illinois Urbana-Champagne

Stephen Boppart, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory is focused on developing novel optical biomedical diagnostic and imaging technologies and translating them into clinical applications. Boppart received his doctorate in medical and electrical engineering from MIT, his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School, and specialty training in internal medicine. He has published over 450 invited and contributed publications and over 50 patents related to optical biomedical imaging technology.

Boppart has co-founded four startup companies, is a fellow of AAAS, IEEE, Optica, SPIE, AIMBE, IAMBE, and BMES, and was recently elected to the National Academy of Inventors. He has been a strong advocate for the integration of engineering and medicine to advance human health and our health care systems, and has been involved in envisioning, establishing, and developing UIUC’s new engineering-based Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Boppart is currently serving as interim director of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute at UIUC and leading a campus charge to envision the future of technology-inspired innovations in health.