Zahi A. Fayad BSEE, MSE, PhD

Dr. Fayad serves as a Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Director and Founder of the Eva and Morris Feld Imaging Science Laboratories, and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Fayad is one of the world's leaders in the development and use of multimodality cardiovascular imaging including, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and molecular imaging to study cardiovascular disease.

He is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards and recently he was the given the John Paul II Medal from Krakow, Poland as a recognition for the potential of his work on humankind. As a teacher and mentor, Dr. Fayad has been also extremely successful. He has trained over 30 postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and students. His trainees have received major awards, fellowships, and positions in academia and industry. In 2008 he received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the ISMRM for his teaching on cardiovascular imaging and molecular imaging. In 2002 he was guest editor of the Neuroimaging Clinics on Atherosclerosis Imaging. In 2004 he co-published a comprehensive book on CMR with the publisher Martin Dunitz from the Taylor and Francis Group.

Dr. Fayad had his training at Johns Hopkins University (Nitish Thakor, Elliott McVeigh, Elias Zerhouni, and William Brody) and at the University of Pennsylvania (Leon Axel). From 1996 to 1997 he was junior faculty in the Department of Radiology and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997 he joined the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.