Christopher Nguyen, PhD

Christopher Nguyen, PhD is Director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Research Center, and Director of MRI Research in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a biomedical engineer by training and focuses on developing and clinically translating novel technologies and innovations into the clinic.

Education: Dr. Nguyen was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic staff in 2022 and holds appointments in cardiovascular medicine, radiology, and biomedical engineering as Associate Professor of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. He was recruited from Massachusetts General Hospital where he held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he was faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after having completed postdoctoral fellowships in Biomedical Imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and in Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from University of California Los Angeles with formal MRI physics training developing novel cardiac MRI pulse sequences and validating them in both pre-clinical and clinical settings.

Research, Publications and Speaking: Dr. Nguyen is an expert in developing cardiovascular imaging techniques including MRI and optical modalities as well as developing personalized imaging for physical and digital twin technologies.Dr. Nguyen currently is the Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple National Institutes of Health-funded studies (NIH Reporter) on developing novel cardiovascular techniques and evaluating treatments of heart failure. Dr. Nguyen has co-authored more than 90 scientific papers and editorials in peer-reviewed medical and engineering journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Robotics, Circulation, and JACC. Dr. Nguyen has been an invited lecturer at numerous international and national medical meetings and conferences. He currently serves on the ISMRM Annual Program Committee after recently stepping down as Chair of the ISMRM Education Committee. In the past, Dr. Nguyen has organized as co-Chair of the SCMR/ISMRM workshop and served on the SCMR Annual Program Committee.

Dr. Nguyen is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He sits on various counsels of the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health. He is a frequent peer reviewer for multiple medical journals including the Nature, Science, Advanced Materials, the American Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Circulation Research, JACC, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He is also serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine.

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
2022

Education & Fellowships

Graduate School - University of California Los Angeles
Biomedical Engineering
Los Angeles, CA [ None or N/A ] (Archived)
2016

Undergraduate - University of California Berkeley
Bioengineering
Berkeley, CA United States
2009

Professional Highlights

2023 Annual Program Committee Member, ISMRM
2023 Web Editorial Committee Member, ISMRM
2022 Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC)
2022 Fellow of Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR)
2022 Session Chair, Cardiovascular Imaging, World Congress of Biomechanics
2021 Web Editorial Board, ISMRM
2020-2023 Chair, Education Committee, ISMRM
2021-2022 Co-Chair, Special Interest Group Cardiac Diffusion, SCMR
2019-2020 Program Co-Chair, ISMRM/SCMR Workshop
2019 CV Table Chair, Education Committee, ISMRM
2017 Junior Fellow, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
2017 Annual Program Committee, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)
2017 NIH Early Career Trailblazer Award

Awards & Honors

2022 Expert in Diffusion Tensor MRI (Top 0.5% PubMed citations past 10 years), ExpertScape
2020 Finalist Novartis Global Scholars Program, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research
2018 NIH NIBIB / SCMR Plenary Keynote Lecture
2018 Pohost Award Runner-up Winner, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
2017 Summa Cum Laude Abstract, ISMRM
2017 Early Career Award Finalist, Basic Science Research, SCMR
2016 Best Abstract Award, Gordon Research Conference MRI
2016 Early Career Award Finalist, Translational Science Research, SCMR
2014 Magna Cum Laude Abstract, ISMRM
2014 Pohost Award Finalist, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
2007-2009 UC LEADS Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of California San Francisco

Innovations & Patents

2021 An organicsynethetic dynamic heart model, WO2021226186A1
2020 Free breathing 3D body diffusion imaging using motion-compensated diffusion preparation and motion robust readout, US10649056B2
2019 Low-rank tensor imaging for multidimensional cardiovascular MRI, US10436871B2
2019 Low-rank tensor imaging quantitative MRI, US20190346523A1

Research & Publications

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