Dr Bachir Taouli graduated in medicine from Université d’Alger (Algeria) and the Medical University of Paris VI (France). He completed Radiology Residency in Paris VI University in 2000. After a research postdoc at UCSF, he completed a clinical Fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at UCSF. He then joined the NYU Body MRI group in 2003. Dr Taouli then moved to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2009 to become Director of Body MRI, co-director of Abdominal Imaging and Director of the Body MRI Fellowship. In 2013, Dr Taouli was appointed director of the Cancer Imaging Program at Mount Sinai. Dr Taouli is also the director of the Quantitative Imaging Research Group at Mount Sinai. Dr Taouli’s research interests are focused on quantitative MRI methods, including diffusion, perfusion, elastography, and fat/iron quantification methods, applied for diffuse and focal liver diseases, and cancer imaging. He is a full member of the RSNA, ISMRM, ARRS, SAR, ESR, AASLD and ESGAR. He is a reviewer for Radiology, AJR, JMRI and European Radiology, and abstract reviewer for ISMRM, RSNA, AASLD, DDW, ARRS and SAR. He was the Associate editor for Gastrointestinal imaging for AJR. Dr Taouli was a member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee at the ISMRM and is/was a member of the RSNA Gastrointestinal Radiology Subcommittee, the ARRS Scientific Program Subcommittee (for GI/Liver/Biliary/Pancreas section), and member of the SAR Educational Program Committee. He authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 13 book chapters on body MRI.

Special Interest & Researches Done: Quantitative MRI methods, diffusion, perfusion, elastography, and fat/iron quantification methods, applied for diffuse and focal liver diseases, and for cancer imaging