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Walter Kucharczyk, MD, FRCPC

Walter Kucharczyk, MD, FRCPC

Walter Kucharczyk was born, raised and educated in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine in 1979, after which he undertook specialty training in Radiology in Toronto, followed by subspecialty training in Neuroradiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco from 1984 to 1986. He returned to a faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1986, and became the inaugural Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at what was then the Toronto General Hospital At the University, he became Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Imaging in 1991, a position he has held until 2007. He is a senior member of the ASNR and past member of the AASNR Executive Committee. He is Past-President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the largest research and education group in the world (5000 members) devoted to developing and teaching magnetic resonance to doctors and scientists.

Dr. Kucharczyk is author of a book on MRI of the Central Nervous System. He has written over 200 scientific papers, and has been invited to give more than 300 international lectures on every continent. He published several of the early papers on the design, operation, and treatment of novel Interventional MRI systems to guide surgical procedures, as well as research-based novel percutaneous and transcutaneous MRI-guided treatment systems including several of the early papers on MR thermometry to monitor the effects of heat ablation on human cancer in vivo. Dr. Kucharczyk’s research has focused on developing and applying modern high-speed 3D imaging technologies for non-invasive and minimally invasive treatment. He has been awarded several multi-million dollar grants from Technology Ontario, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund (CFI), and the Leading Edge Fund of CFI. In a related program, he has also been PI on an ORDCF grant for the Ontario Consortium of Image Guided Therapy and Surgery (OCITS).

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