Pamela K. Woodard
Alma materDuke University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Duke University

Pamela K. Woodard is an American cardiovascular physician who is the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.

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.[1] Woodard was a medical resident at Duke, where she studied blood clots in the lungs. She revealed that these blood clots could be detected by spinal 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.[1]

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.
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