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Final Program


Program-At-A-Glance

Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH, FSCMR

Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Kwong is the Director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kwong completed his medical training at University of Toronto, Canada in 1992, residency in Internal Medicine at University of British Columbia, and fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. He then pursued a 2-year fellowship in CMR imaging at the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics at the National Institutes of Health.

Since 2001, Dr. Kwong directs an active clinical CMR program at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Circulation, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), and the Journal for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) and he is an Associate Editor of JACC imaging. Dr. Kwong has authored more than 300 original peer-review papers, review articles or book chapters, most of them focused the clinical applications of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Kwong’s current research focused on the clinical utility and prognostic implication of CMR to patients with coronary artery disease. He was appointed the Chair of the SCMR registry and led conduct of the multicenter Stress Perfusion in the United States (SPINS) Study . Dr. Kwong’s CMR laboratory current served as the imaging core laboratory for NIH-funded multicenter multinational clinical trials (including the ISCHEMIA trial, HCMR: novel predictors of outcome in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) as well as several industry –sponsored multicenter trials that employed CMR technology in addressing key key clincal questions. Dr. Kwong has served as a permanent standing member of the NIH CICS study section.

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