The American College of Radiology (ACR) has announced the appointment of Etta D. Pisano, MD, as chief science officer of the ACR Center for Research and Innovation.

Pisano’s career has led to academic appointments including: founding chief of breast imaging in the department of radiology and vice dean for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; dean of the Medical School at the University of South Carolina; and most recently vice chair of research in the department of radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor at Harvard.

In parallel, Pisano has led landmark clinical research trials studies while serving as the chair of the ACRIN Breast Imaging Committee (1998-2008) and Principal Investigator of the Digital Mammography Screening Trial (DMIST). DMIST accrued 49,528 women in a study comparing digital to film mammography, the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005 and which changed the breast cancer screening guidelines and reimbursement… Continue reading.