Professor James Bassingthwaighte

James Bassingthwaighte is a professor of bioengineering and cardiology at the University of Washington. An active teacher and researcher, he is known for an integrative, quantitative approach to cardiovascular physiology. He earned his MD at U of T, completing his PhD at the Mayo Clinic where later joined the faculty, before moving onto the University of Washington . There, he chaired the Department of Bioengineering and founded the National Simulation Resource Facility for Circulatory Mass Transport and Exchange. In 1997, he founded the Physiome Project, an international effort to define the physiome through the development of databases and models which facilitate the understanding of the integrative function of cells, organs and organisms.

The author of two books and more than 300 papers, Bassingthwaighte is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of both the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has been honoured by the American Physiological Society, Maastricht University in the Netherlands and McGill University, among other institutions.