Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ohliger obtained his PhD in Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2005, and he received his MD in Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 2007. He completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology and fellowship training in Abdominal Imaging at UCSF. He joined the UCSF faculty in 2013, where he is a member of the Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound section.

Dr. Ohliger’s main research involves the development and clinical translation of new MRI techniques for the abdomen and pelvis, with a focus on molecular imaging of liver tumors, liver metabolism and liver injury. Current research projects involve using hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI to image liver tumors as well as fatty liver disease. Dr. Ohliger also has a major research effort developing novel methods for imaging bacterial injection.