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Cross-appointed senior scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room AG 57
Toronto, ON
M4N 3M5
Education:
- MD, 1986, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Internship, 1987, medicine, Wellesley Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
- B.Math., 1990, computer science, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Residency, 1994, radiology, U of T, Canada
- Fellowship, 1995, abdominal imaging, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, U.S.
Appointments and Affiliations:
- Senior scientist, Physical Sciences, Odette Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Clinician scientist, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Associate member, Institute of Medical Science, U of T
- Professor, department of medical imaging, U of T
- Chief, department of medical imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Research Summary:
Dr. Haider's major research activities focus on abdominal and pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with a special interest in therapeutic response assessment and functional imaging (“radiomics”) of cancer using MRI and computed tomography. He has a particular interest in prostate cancer imaging, as well as in pancreatic, renal and liver cancers.
Dr. Haider has held peer-reviewed grants from Prostate Cancer Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) for MRI-related prostate cancer research. He holds a protected research time grant from the OICR. He is also the imaging lead on national prospective MRI trials in prostate cancer. Dr. Haider has worked on establishing guidelines for the use of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) for prostate cancer including the Pi-Rads standard for performance and interpretation of prostate mpMRI. At Sunnybrook he leads a program in the use of mpMRI for detection, localization and image-guided biopsy of prostate cancer and is collaborating in image-guided approaches to focal prostate cancer ablation often referred to as “the male lumpectomy”.
Selected Publications:
See current publications list at PubMed.
- Nam RK, Wallis CJD, Stojcic-Bendavid J, Milot L, Sherman C, Sugar L, Haider MA. A pilot study to evaluate the role of magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer screening in the general population. J Urol. 2016 Aug;196(2):361–6.
- Langer DL, van der Kwast TH, Evans AJ, Plotkin A, Trachtenberg J, Wilson BC, Haider MA. Prostate tissue composition and MR measurements: investigating the relationships between ADC, T2, K(trans), v(e), and corresponding histologic features. Radiology. 2010 May;255(2):485–94.
- Langer DL, van der Kwast TH, Evans AJ, Trachtenberg J, Wilson BC, Haider MA (SRA). Prostate cancer detection with multi-parametric MRI: logistic regression analysis of quantitative T2, diffusion-weighted imaging, and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009 Aug;30(2):327–34.
- Haider MA, Chung P, Sweet J, Toi A, Jhaveri K, Menard C, Warde P, Trachtenberg J, Lockwood G, Milosevic M. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for localization of recurrent prostate cancer after external beam radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Feb;70(2):425–30.
- Haider MA, van der Kwast TH, Tanguay J, Evans AJ, Hashmi AT, Lockwood G, Trachtenberg J et al. Combined T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI for localization of prostate cancer. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Aug;189(2):323–8.
Related News and Stories:
- "Bespoke" prostate cancer treatment: Genomics and imaging tools are cracking the tough nut of prostate cancer, exposing which patients are most likely to get worse, and where tumours might be concealed (SRI Magazine, 2016)
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