Elsie Nguyen MD, FRCPC

Dr. Elsie Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of Cardiac Imaging at Womens’ College Hospital where she started the Cardiac MR and CT Imaging Program. She is the only radiologist in Canada to be certified by the American Society of Echocardiography (level III certification) and the only radiologist currently reporting echocardiograms in a tertiary care academic hospital setting. She is passionate about education and has won numerous teaching awards for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In 2018, University of Toronto medical students voted Dr. Nguyen as “Best Undergraduate Teacher”. Her research interests include micro coil lung nodule localization techniques; cardiac computed tomography optimization techniques and iron overload imaging with magnetic resonance imaging.