Raymond Y. Kwong MD, MPH

Dr. Kwong is the Director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1992, residency in Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia, fellowship in clinical cardiovascular diseases at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC, and a fellowship in CMR imaging at the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

He joined the Cardiovascular Division of BWH faculty in 2001, focusing on clinical applications of CMR for patient care. His research focuses on noninvasive myocardial tissue characterization and its clinical impact, spanning ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. He has participated in committee positions within the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and as a permanent study member of NIH study sections.

Dr. Kwong has served on the Editorial Boards of Circulation, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), JACC Imaging, and the Journal for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR). He has authored more than 280 original peer-reviewed papers, review articles, or book chapters, most of which focused on the technical advancement or clinical applications of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Dr. Kwong’s current research focused on CMR's clinical utility and prognostic implication to patients with coronary artery disease and various cardiomyopathies.  Under his supervision, the CMR laboratory is the imaging core laboratory for several NIH and industry-funded international clinical trials of novel cardiac therapies.