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Paul Finn, MD, MSc

Professor
UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States

J. Paul Finn, MD is a Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Biomedical Physics at UCLA and served as President of ISMRM in 2006-7. From 1993-1997, he directed the MR Research and Development group for Siemens in the U.S. and in 1997 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, where he remained until moving to UCLA in 2003. Dr. Finn has authored 253 peer reviewed papers and was instrumental in the original development of several techniques now standard for cardiovascular MR, including segmented SSFP cine, inversion recovery imaging of delayed myocardial enhancement, time-resolved and high resolution contrast MR angiography and MR angiography with low dose gadolinium. He is a Fellow of the ISMRM and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). His current research interests include CMR in congenital heart disease, CMR in patients with implanted cardiac devices, and the evolving use of ferumoxytol for cardiovascular MR. Dr. Finn's clinical practice encompasses a wide spectrum of MR and CT in congenital and acquired Cardiovascular diseases in both adults and children. Throughout his career, he has been committed to fostering inter-disciplinary collaboration among radiologists, cardiologists and imaging physicists. He believes that with the rapid growth of advanced imaging technology, the cardiac imagers of the future will need to call upon both clinical and technical skills, which the SCMR can help to define and grow.

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