Michael D. Hope BA, BS, MD

Michael D. Hope, MD, is an Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Radiology at UCSF. He obtained his medical degree from Stanford in 2004. The following year, he did a Medicine internship at California Pacific Medical Center. Dr. Hope completed his Diagnostic Radiology residency at UCSF in 2009, followed by a fellowship in Cardiopulmonary Imaging. He is the Co-Director of the Vascular Imaging Research Center at UCSF, Chair of the MR Safety Committee, and increasingly recognized as an expert in advanced cardiovascular imaging techniques with over 50 invited lectures and 70 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited over 1,700 times.

Dr. Hope was recently awarded an R01 grant entitled, "Hemodynamic and inflammatory imaging in evaluation of abdominal aortic aneurysms" (R01HL123759). His long-term goal is to expand significantly the role of MR vessel and blood flow imaging in the clinical management of patients with cardiovascular disease