Dr. Charles F. Babbs received his M.D. and M.S. (Anatomy) degrees from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and his B.S. in experimental psychology from Yale University, New Haven, CT. He is an associate research scholar with the Department of Basic Medical Sciences and an instructor in family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. He has received an NIH Research Career Development Award, and has written more than 150 refereed articles and ten chapters in scholarly journals and textbooks. His research is in the areas of biomedical engineering, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tumor blood flow, heat therapy for cancer, digital mammography, the biochemistry of cellular damage after cardiac arrest, including the roles of free radicals and iron in reperfusion injury and the biomechanics of closed head injury.

Dr. Babbs' research is in the areas of biomedical engineering, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tumor blood flow, heat therapy for cancer, digital mammography, the biochemistry of cellular damage after cardiac arrest, including the roles of free radicals and iron in reperfusion injury and the biomechanics of closed head injury.