Michael Noseworthy, PhD

Dr. Michael D. Noseworthy received a M.Sc. from the University of Guelph for work in the evaluation of anaesthetic hepatotoxicity using MRI, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and in vivo ³¹P-NMR. He obtained a PhD from University of Guelph (1997) specializing in applications of MRI/NMR and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) methods to assess free radical induced brain damage.  From 1997-1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Imaging Physics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto) working on the evaluation of tissue microvasculature through development of correlative MRI and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDXS).  In January 2000 to August 2003, Dr. Noseworthy worked as an MRI physicist at The Hospital for Sick Children and University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, and was an Assistant Professor in Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto. 

He was recruited to St. Joseph’s Healthcare and Brain-Body Institute, McMaster University in August 2003.  Following 3 years as an Assistant Professor in Radiology and Medical Physics at McMaster, Dr. Noseworthy obtained a tenure-track assistant professor position in Electrical & Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where he currently resides as a full professor.  He was the Co-Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering (from 2010 to 2020) and has been Director of Imaging Physics and Engineering at the Imaging Research Centre, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton since 2003.  Dr. Noseworthy also has Special Professional Staff status at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in both Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.  He has received funding from numerous sources including NSERC, CIHR, CFI and ORF, has published over 150 peer reviewed papers, almost 300 conference papers and given over 150 invited lectures around the globe.  He has supervised over 70 graduate students and postdocs.  Dr. Noseworthy regularly performs MRI acceptance testing around Ontario and is Co-Founder and CEO of TBIfinder (www.tbifinder.com), a data analytics company specializing in brain injuries.  Dr. Noseworthy is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB).

Dr. Noseworthy plays guitar and sings in a rock cover band called the T2AllStars.  They have played gigs in Singapore, Honolulu, Toronto, Montreal, Paris, Barcelona, Cologne and a few others.  Their next gig is scheduled in London England (May 2022).  When he’s not playing guitar he’s playing hockey (4 times per week).