Pamela Woodard

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Pamela K. Woodard
Alma mater Duke University
Scientific career
Institutions Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Washington University

Pamela K. Woodard is an American radiologist specializing in cardiovascular imaging. She is the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology and the Director the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. She also holds appointments as a professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.

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Early life and education

Woodard was born in Newton, Massachusetts. [1] [2] She has said that she wanted to be a physician from the age of four. [3]

Woodard completed her bachelor's degree at Duke University. [1] [4] She remained at Duke for her medical degree, [3] before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a one year internship. [1] Woodard was a radiology resident at Duke, where she studied blood clots in the lungs. She revealed that these blood clots could be detected by spiral CT scans. She moved to Washington University in St. Louis as a cardiothoracic fellow. [3] Her research considered diagnostic radiology, including positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and CT scanning. [3] [5]

Research and career

In 1997, Woodard was appointed to the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where she established multi-detector CT scanning as the standard means to diagnose blood clots. [1] Her research has concentrated on translating pre-clinical imaging to patients. She has developed atherosclerosis agents and PET radiotracers. [6] These radiotracers can detect proteins that are associated with plaques, which can cause sudden heart attack and stroke, or monitor blood flow through heart muscles. [1]

Woodard was named the inaugural Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology in 2019. [7] In 2021, she was named the Radiological Society of North America Outstanding Researcher of the Year. [8] [9] In 2022, Woodard was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and also elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. [10] [1] She has been a standing member of three National Institutes of Health study sections, most recently serving as the Chair of the Imaging Guided Interventions and Surgery section. [11] She has served on the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology, and in April 2024, Woodard was elected as President of the American College of Radiology for 2024–2025. [12] In November of 2024, Woodard was chosen as President of The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. [13] The Academy is a non-profit organization committed to advancing federal support of the NIH, and it was instrumental in advocating for the establishment of NIH's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering in 2001. [14] In February of 2025, Woodard was named as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Research and Education (R&E) Foundation of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). [15] The R&E Foundation invests in the future of radiology by developing investigators and supporting biomedical imaging research through grant funding. [16]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Woodard named an AAAS fellow". Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. January 29, 2022. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Women in Radiology Spotlight Pamela Woodard". www.acr.org. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Pamela Woodard, MD". Washington University Physicians. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  4. ↑ ACADAdmin (October 26, 2016). "Pamela K. Woodard, MD". The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Pamela K. Woodard, MD". Washington University Physicians. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ "RSNA 2021 Outstanding Researcher". www.rsna.org. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Woodard named Wilson Professor of Radiology". Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. February 25, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Woodard named outstanding researcher by radiology society". Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. September 3, 2021. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  9. ↑ Mahoney, Mary C. (January 1, 2022). "2021 RSNA Outstanding Researcher" . Radiology. 302 (1): 9. doi:10.1148/radiol.219024. ISSN   0033-8419. PMID   34846199.
  10. ↑ Dr. Pamela Woodard Elected to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows | https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-7145/
  11. ↑ "Faculty Bio: Pamela Woodard". Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography.
  12. ↑ https://www.acr.org/Media-Center/ACR-News-Releases/2024/Matsumoto-announced-chair-of-American-College-of-Radiology-Board-of-Chancellors
  13. ↑ https://www.acadrad.org/executive/
  14. ↑ https://www.annualreviews.org/deliver/fulltext/be/6/1/annurev.bioeng.6.062403.131947.pdf
  15. ↑ https://www.rsna.org/foundation-focus/2025/february/dr-woodard-appointed-re-foundation-chair
  16. ↑ https://www.rsna.org/re-foundation
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