Professor of Medicine
McGill University Health Centre
McGill University Health Centre
Matthias G. Friedrich earned his MD at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nuernberg, Germany. He completed his training as an internist and cardiologist at the Charité University Medicine Center, Humboldt University in Berlin.
From 2004 to 2011, he was Professor of Medicine with the Departments of Cardiac Sciences and Radiology at the University of Calgary and developed the Stephenson Cardiovascular MR Centre, one of North Americas largest centers for Cardiovascular MR.
From 2011 to 2015, he held the Chair in Cardiac Imaging as Full Professor of the Université de Montréal.
Since 2015, is Full Professor of Medicine with the Departments of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology. He also acts as the Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging of the McGill University Health Centre and as the Scientific Director of the Courtois Cardiovascular Signature Program. He also has an appointment with the Heidelberg University in Germany.
His scientific interest is in new approaches for diagnosing cardiovascular disease using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging, with a special interest in multidimensional simultaneous CMR data acquisition and oxygenation-sensitive CMR.
He supervised more than 30 students, authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, with close to 15,000 citations (current h index 54). He is member of international writing groups, editorial boards and grant review committees in Europe and North America. He is Co-PI of Canada’s national Cardiovascular Cohort Study.
He is also actively involved in the development of leading medical image post-processing software (cvi42) and the CMR Atlas for the iPad.
Matthias Friedrich was the Founding President of the Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and is Past President of the Society for Cardiovascular MR (SCMR).
Thursday, October 24
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM