Douglas Arnold, MD

Douglas L. Arnold, MD is James McGill Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, and he is the Director of the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit and the Clinical Research Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr. Arnold received his BSc from McGill University in Montreal and his MD from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. After medical school he returned to McGill University for residency training in internal medicine and neurology. His training in magnetic resonance spectroscopy was obtained at the University of Oxford in the early 1980s when the in vivo applications of this technique were just being developed. He then returned to Montreal to join the staff of the Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University where he has developed the use of MR spectroscopy and other advanced MRI imaging techniques for the investigation of neurological disorders. In recent years Dr. Arnold has been using advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques to investigate how the disease Multiple Sclerosis progresses and the extent to which it causes brain damage.