Udo Hoffmann, MD, MPH - Director

Dr. Hoffmann, is a clinical cardiac radiologist with over ten years of experience in noninvasive cardiovascular imaging. He received his MD from the Medical School at the University of Leipzig, Germany and received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in radiology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is an Associate Professor in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School. He was the American Roentgen Ray Society, Elio Bracco Scholar in 2005.

He is the Director of the MGH Cardiac MR PET CT Program. He has conducted several NIH-sponsored and industry-supported studies, and leads the CT Core Lab of the Framingham Heart Study.

His research initially focused on the feasibility of cardiac CT for the detection of coronary stenosis and assessment of atherosclerotic plaque. More recently, he has built a multidisciplinary research team to systematically assess the clinical utility of novel imaging technologies. His research has resulted in over 100 publications to date.

Dr. Pien has been with the MGH community since 1998.  He became the Managing Director of the Center for Biomarkers in Imaging in 2004, and more recently took on the additional role of Managing Director for the CVCT Core Lab.  Dr. Pien is also the Director of Imaging Processing and Computational Science within the Cardiac Imaging Program.

Prior to joining MGH, Dr. Pien was co-founder, CEO, and COO of SRU Biosystems, a biotech startup focusing on the development of a novel biosensor for drug discovery and proteomics. Before SRU, Dr. Pien was Vice President and Technical Director of Medical OnLine, Inc., which provides web-based neuroradiological image delivery service. Prior to Medical OnLine, Dr. Pien was with Draper Laboratory for 10 years, first as the leader of the Image Processing Group, and later as the Director of Biomedical Technologies program office. While at Draper, Dr. Pien helped to establish the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), and served as CIMIT’s first Director of Technology. Before Draper, Dr. Pien was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory for five years.

Dr. Pien received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, MS and PhD in Computer Science, focusing on image processing and computer vision, from Northeastern University, and MS in Management from MIT.


Ricardo Cury, MD -
Director of Education and Teleradiology

Dr. Ricardo Cury is a non-invasive cardiovascular radiologist (CT and MRI) and is the Director of Teleradiology and Education for the Cardiovascular CT Core Lab and Director of Clinical Cardiac MRI for the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Cury is author of more than 50 original scientific publications in major radiology and cardiology journals. He is an Assistant Professor in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School, an associate editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular CT, and also a reviewer of several journals such as Circulation, JACC, AJR and others. 

Dr. Cury has interpreted more than 3,000 Cardiac CT angiograms and more than 2,000 Cardiac MRI scans. He has been director or instructor in multiple dedicated hands-on workshops in coronary CTA, including: SCCT Academy, MGH and University of Erlangen workshops. He has been invited to speak about cardiac CT and MRI nationally, throughout the USA, and internationally in Europe, Central and South America. He is a member of AHA, RSNA, SCMR, ACR and a founding member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT.

Dr. Fabian Bamberg is an instructor in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School and a member of the radiology faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his MD from the University of Witten/Herdecke and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Heath.