Martin Ugander, MD, PhD

Professor of Cardiac Imaging
Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney/ Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Professor Martin Ugander, MD, PhD, is since 2019 Professor of Cardiac Imaging at the University of Sydney, where he also serves as Director of Clinical Imaging. He received his MD in 2001 and PhD in 2006 from Lund University, Sweden. 2009-2011 he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. 2011-2019 he undertook clinical training in the medical specialty Clinical Physiology, and became Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. His research interests are in non-invasive cardiac imaging with MRI of ischemic heart disease and heart failure, as well as basic cardiac pumping physiology. His research spans technical, pre-clinical translational, and clinical cardiovascular imaging using cardiac MRI, echocardiography, SPECT, CT, and ECG.

Presentation(s):

• Decreasing myocardial edema correlates with functional recovery in Takotsubo syndrome

  Thursday, February 5, 2026
  3:52 PM - 3:59 PM