Dr. Masoom Abbas Haider

Dr. Masoom Haider is Director of the Sinai Health Research MRI and Head of the Radiomics and Machine Learning Lab at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is a Staff Radiologist, in the Joint Dept of Medical Imaging at Mount Sinai Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital, Senior Clinician Scientist, LTRI and Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto as well as an Ontario Institute of Cancer Research Clinician Scientist. He was previously Chief, Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Head of Abdominal MRI.

He received his MD from the University of Ottawa and undertook additional training at the University of Toronto and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Dr. Haider’s research focuses on prostate cancer localization with MRI using multiparametric approaches; radiological pathologic correlation in prostate cancer, GU malignancies and other abdominal and pelvic malignancies; and feature analysis of tumors for imaging biomarker validation (radiomics) and therapy response assessment.

He is also interested in functional assessment of tumors using MRI and CT, pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancer assessment with MRI and computer-aided diagnosis.

Dr. Haider holds three patents on technologies related to medical imaging as well as intellectual property related to medical imaging teaching. He has published more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.