Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Schär, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Mike trained in physics and received a PhD in biomedical engineering from ETH Zürich in Switzerland. Afterwards he joined Philips Healthcare as a senior clinical scientist working first at Johns Hopkins and then at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. In 2014 he joined Johns Hopkins as a faculty. Mike's research interests focus on the development of novel MRI and MRS techniques at 3 Tesla to study cardiovascular disease in patients: 1) development of MRI methods to non-invasively quantify coronary endothelial function that previously could only be measured by invasive cardiac catheterization. Endothelial dysfunction is a marker for sub-clinical disease, an independent predictor of adverse cardiac events, and a potential target for medical interventions when disease progression is still reversable, and 2) development of MRI/MRS methods to non-invasively quantify energy metabolism in the human heart and exercising leg to better understand disease mechanisms in people suffering from heart failure, fatigue, and HIV.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
9:00 AM – 9:12 AM East Coast USA Time
