Masoom Haider

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

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

Dr. Haider is the imaging lead on national MRI trials in prostate cancer. He has worked on guideline development for the use of multiparametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) for prostate cancer, namely the Pi-Rads standard. He holds a Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Imaging Biomarkers and Radiomics at the LTRI, Sinai Health. In the JDMI and LTRI, he leads the AI, Radiomics and Oncologic Imaging Research Lab and collaborates with oncologists, computer scientists, engineers, radiologists, and biomedical physicists.

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 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.