Graeme Bydder
7.30 pm Tuesday, 17 February 2026, Palmerston North Central Library, George Street, Palmerston North
Professor Graeme Bydder, CNZM, FMedSci, received his physics training at the University of Canterbury and his medical training at the University of Otago. For much of the early history of clinical MRI, he was the pre-eminent radiologist in the field. The systematic interpretation of MR images which began with his paper on the brain in 1982 is used worldwide. The ultra high contrast sequences developed at Mātai by Drs Mark and Graeme Bydder appear destined to substantially expand the range of applications of MRI and provide unequivocal diagnoses in diseases affecting the brain where previously this has not been possible.