Adrienne Campbell-Washburn

Adrienne Campbell-Washburn is an MRI scientist who left the National Institutes of Health, where she served as chief of the MRI Technology Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to join the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine as the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Medical Imaging Technology. She earned a BSc (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario in 2009 and a PhD in medical physics from University College London in 2012.

Campbell-Washburn's research focuses on developing novel heart-imaging technology and translating it into clinical practice. Her lab builds rapid MRI methods and low-latency image-reconstruction techniques that bring high-performance computing into the clinical environment, prioritizing real-time, intelligent, patient-adaptive approaches that improve imaging efficiency and accessibility.

At NIH, her lab pioneered a high-performance 0.55T MRI system — since commercialized as a more accessible imaging platform — and demonstrated its value for cardiac and pulmonary imaging, alongside MRI-guided cardiovascular catheterization techniques. Her appointment was announced as part of the University of Toronto's cohort of six Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs, under Canada's $1.7 billion Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative.