
Michael Hutchinson is co-author of Healing American Healthcare: A Plan to Provide Quality Care for All, While Saving $1 Trillion a Year, is a neurologist and biophysicist. He is senior faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, with 30 years of clinical experience. He is certified in neurology and neuroimaging, and is immediate past president of the American Society of Neuroimaging. He holds a PhD in molecular physics and invented parallel MRI in 1987, now the standard for clinical MRI. While a resident at the University of Washington, he pioneered an approach to status epilepticus – the most lethal form of epilepsy – which is now standard of care in the U.S. Dr. Hutchinson has a large private practice in Manhattan. In addition, he teaches and conducts research, including fundamental MRI theory and its application to neurodegenerative conditions. He has recently published a theory of ultrafast MRI.