Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging
King's College London
Dr. Botnar received his PhD from the ETH Zurich. From 1996-97 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Radiology at the University Zurich. In1997, he joined the Cardiac MR Center at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.
In 2003, Dr. Botnar became the Scientific Director of the Cardiac MR Center at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was appointed to Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. In 2005, Dr. Botnar accepted a Professorship of Biomedical Imaging at the Technische Universität München where he setup a cardiac MR program with a special focus on pre-clinical and translational multi modality imaging. His work was funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education, by the German Excellence Program, and by industry. At the end of 2007, he joined the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London where he is currently Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging and Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department. Dr. Botnar is a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine and a member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance; he was a board member of Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance from 2008-2011 and was on the scientific advisory board of the High Risk Plaque initiative. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed original papers, 30 review articles and 25 book chapters in the field of CMR. He also holds 5 patents and is an editor of a CMR textbook on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Wednesday, February 6
2:30 PM – 2:40 PM
Thursday, February 7
6:40 PM – 6:55 PM
Friday, February 8
1:45 PM – 1:54 PM
Friday, February 8
2:59 PM – 3:02 PM
Saturday, February 9
10:41 AM – 10:50 AM