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Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR

Professor, Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging, McGill University Health Centre
McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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.
After appointments with the University of Calgary and the Université de Montréal/Montreal Heart Institute, he joined the Departments of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology as a Full Professor and currently also acts as Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging and Scientific Director of the Courtois Cardiovascular Signature Program at the McGill University Health Centre. He also has an appointment with the Department of Medicine at Heidelberg University in Germany.
He is a staff cardiologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and an active researcher with a strong interest in novel imaging techniques.
The scientific interest of his 20+ research team is focused on new approaches for diagnosing cardiovascular disease using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging, with a particular interest in novel diagnostic approaches to visualize heart disease. Currently, his team is working on Simultaneous Multiparametric Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques (SMART) CMR, Oxygenation-Sensitive CMR, and the diagnostic utility of breathing maneuvers in diagnosing coronary vascular diseases.
He authored or co-authored more than 270 peer-reviewed publications, with over 34,000 citations (current h-index: 74).
He was the Founding President of the Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and President of the Society for Cardiovascular MR (SCMR).
Furthermore, he is involved in several start-up companies related to cardiovascular imaging (CircleCVI) and machine learning (Area19 Medical, AiVALON Technologies)
Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/2Y3RZSd

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