Filippi Christopher

(Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto)

Dr. Christopher G. Filippi, “Risto”, is the Alice Ettinger-Jack R. Dreyfuss Chair and Professor of Radiology the Tufts University School of Medicine and Radiologist-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center. He graduated from Cornell University Medical College and completed training in diagnostic radiology at New York Hospital-Cornell and a 2-year neuroradiology fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in pediatric and adult neuroradiology. Past President of the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology and Eastern Neuroradiology Society and formerly the Director of MRI Research at the University of Vermont and Division Chief of Neuroradiology at Columbia University, his research interests include artificial intelligence (AI) and translation of emerging MR techniques in both pediatric and adult patients, DTI and functional neuroradiology, glial lymphatic flow, demyelinating (neuroinflammatory) disease and CNS neoplasms. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and more than 100 presented/published abstracts at national and international meetings. He formerly was Chair of the Cross Organ Table and Co-Chair of the Neuroradiology Section of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Program Committee. Recently, he became a member of the Radiology Society of North America’s Scientific Advisory Council and Chair of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) Task Force. He is currently a Senior Editor at the AJNR and Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc AI Committee for the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), and he was recently named a fellow of both the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology (ASFNR).

Lecture: Neonatal MR Imaging