Pamela Woodard
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Pamela K. Woodard | |
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| Alma mater | Duke University |
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| 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 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine[1] in 2025.
Woodard was born in Newton, Massachusetts.[2][3] She has said that she wanted to be a physician from the age of four.[4]
Woodard completed her bachelor's degree at Duke University.[2][5] She remained at Duke for her medical degree,[4] before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a one year internship.[2] 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.[4] Her research considered diagnostic radiology, including positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and CT scanning.[4][6]
