Pamela K. Woodard, MD

Senior Vice Chair and Division Director, Radiology Research Facilities

Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR)
Head, Advanced Cardiac Imaging (CT/MR)
Director, Research Residency Program
Director, T32 TOP-TIER Program

Clinical Expertise:

Cardiothoracic

Research Centers:

Precision Radiotheranostics Translation Center Research Leadership

Lab:

Woodard Lab

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, is the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology and professor of biomedical engineering at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In 2017, she was named senior vice chair of radiology research facilities, providing administrative oversight for MIR’s 11 research facilities — including the Center for Clinical Imaging Research, for which she is the director.

Woodard completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Duke University Medical Center. An alumnus of MIR’s cardiothoracic imaging fellowship, she is also head of cardiac MR/CT and the research residency track. She has several patents and has served on study sections for the NIH.

Clinical Interests

cardiac CT and MRI, pulmonary embolism diagnosis, targeted molecular imaging

Research Interests

coronary MR angiography, myocardial perfusion imaging, coronary CT angiography, atherosclerotic plaque characterization, pulmonary embolism diagnosis and imaging biomarkers

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Education History

Fellowship

Cardiothoracic Imaging, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine

Residency

Diagnostic Radiology, Duke University Medical Center

Internship

University of North Carolina Hospital at Chapel Hill

Medical Degree

Duke University School of Medicine

Undergraduate

Duke University

Associations

Radiological Society of North America
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
American Heart Association
American College of Radiology
American Board of Radiology
American Association for Women Radiologists
American Roentgen Ray Society
Association of University Radiologists
Society of Thoracic Radiology
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Secretary-Treasurer, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research
Board of Directors, Missouri Radiological Society
Legacy and History Committee, North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging

Awards

2022 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2021 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2021 Outstanding Researcher Award, Radiological Society of North America
2019 Fellow, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
2018 Board of Chancellors, American College of Radiology
2017 Distinguished Achievement Award, Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention Council, American Heart Association
2016 Charles T. Dotter Award/Lecture, American Heart Association
2015 Distinguished Investigator Award, Academy of Radiology Research
2015-2019 Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd