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Hugh Monroe Wilson Professorship Installation: Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD

December 8, 2025

Location

Eric P. Newman Education Center - Seminar Room B
320 S Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110

Time

4:30 p.m.

Renowned physician-scientist Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD, will be installed as the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology. She will discuss her groundbreaking neuroimaging work in "Advancing Frontiers in Brain Imaging: Translating Alzheimer's Research into Clinical Medicine.”

Reception to follow.

Please RSVP by December 1.

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About Dr. Benzinger

Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD, and Pamela Woodard, MD, stand in front of a CT scanner.
Benzinger with MIR Director Pamela Woodard, MD, who served as the inaugural Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology.

Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, PhD, is the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology and serves as chief of MRI service for WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR). Benzinger’s research group, part of MIR’s Neuroimaging Labs Research Center, primarily focuses on the study of Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD) and related disorders. She uses PET and MRI imaging to investigate biomarkers she believes will become significant tools in detecting and diagnosing degenerative brain diseases before symptoms occur. Her group also serves as the imaging core for the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, international studies of ADAD, the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) and the DIAN-Therapeutic Unit.

In 2018, Benzinger, who is also a professor of neurological surgery, received the Women in Neuroradiology Leadership Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. She is an alumna, having completed both her diagnostic residency and a fellowship in neuroradiology at MIR. Benzinger earned both her medical and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago and her bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.