Doctor Chris McIntosh

Chris McIntosh is a Senior Scientist at the University Health Network’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Research Institute, and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, holding appointments in Medical Biophysics, Computer Science, and Medical Imaging. His research focuses on the theory, development, and clinical application of AI in medicine for improving patient care, encompassing multimodal learning, meta learning, and explainable AI. His past work on AI in radiation therapy has received regulatory approvals and is used directly in patient care around the world. His current investigations include AI and wearable technologies for heart failure management, and using multimodal learning to build foundational models in healthcare. He has authored publications in clinical and technical venues including Nature Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, the International Conference on Computer Vision, and Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.