Professor of Radiology, Medicine
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York  

Bachir Taouli, MD, MS, is a Professor of Radiology and Medicine in the Body Imaging Section of the Department of Radiology and at the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

He completed medical school and a radiology residency at Paris VI University in France in 2000. Afterward, he joined the Department of Radiology at UCSF for a research fellowship and post-doctoral clinical training.

Dr. Taouli later joined the Department of Radiology at NYU, where he worked for six years. During that time, he developed clinical applications of advanced MRI techniques for liver, kidney, and prostate diseases, including diffusion imaging, perfusion imaging, and MR spectroscopy.

In 2009, he joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He currently serves as Director of Body MRI and Cancer Imaging in the Department of Radiology and TMII. In April 2017, he was appointed Vice-Chair for Translational Research.

Dr. Taouli is a clinician-scientist with expertise in advanced MRI techniques, particularly for diffuse liver disease, liver cancer, and abdominal and pelvic malignancies, including prostate cancer.

He has extensive experience in body MRI and has received continuous NIH funding since 2010. Dr. Taouli has authored or co-authored more than 164 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mainly focused on body MRI, and has lectured internationally on advanced MRI techniques.

He is also an active member of several scientific societies, including the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR), the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR).

In addition, Dr. Taouli previously served as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Roentgenology and has been a member of both the ISMRM Annual Meeting Program Committee and the RSNA Gastrointestinal Radiology Subcommittee.