Christopher Nguyen PhD, FSCMR, FACC

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.

Dr. Nguyen earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles following his undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in biomedical imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School. Following training, Dr. Nguyen held academic faculty appointments at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center (2017-2018), Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2022), Harvard Medical School (2017-2023), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021-2023). He was named to the Cleveland Clinic staff in 2022.

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 the National Institutes of Health. He is a frequent peer reviewer for multiple medical journals including 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 also serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine.