Elliot McVeigh

Elliot McVeigh is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and a Professor of Bioengineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in medical biophysics from the University of Toronto in 1988 and a bachelor's degree in physics from the same university in 1984. Prior to joining UCSD in 2015, McVeigh served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he joined the faculty in 1988 and founded the Medical Imaging Laboratory. In 1999, he collaborated with the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics at the National Institutes of Health to develop a research program in cardiovascular interventional MRI. His career has focused on advancing medical imaging technologies for cardiovascular applications.

McVeigh directs the Cardiovascular Imaging Lab at UCSD, where his research specializes in cardiovascular imaging, MRI and CT methods, image-guided therapy, and novel techniques such as ultra-low dose CT angiography to identify high-risk patients for heart attacks and inform therapies like stents, bypass surgery, or medications. Current NIH-funded projects include patient-specific thrombosis risk assessment in atrial fibrillation using 4D CT imaging of atrial kinetics combined with computational fluid dynamics (R01HL160024, co-Principal Investigator), deviceless and autonomous prospective cardiac CT triggering (R01HL153250, co-Principal Investigator), and true 4DCT for quantifying left ventricular dyssynchrony and function to target LV lead placement in cardiac resynchronization therapy (R01HL144678, Principal Investigator). Key publications encompass "Cardiac motion tracking using CINE harmonic phase (HARP) magnetic resonance imaging" (1999), "Mapping of regional myocardial strain and work during ventricular pacing: experimental study using magnetic resonance imaging tagging" (1999), "Phase-sensitive inversion recovery for detecting myocardial infarction using gadolinium-delayed hyperenhancement" (2002), "Serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of injected mesenchymal stem cells" (2003), and recent works such as "Low dose threshold for measuring cardiac functional metrics using four-dimensional CT with deep learning" (2025). His contributions have shaped cardiac imaging paradigms and functional assessment methodologies.

Professional Email: emcveigh@ucsd.edu