Etta Pisano

Dr. Etta Pisano serves as the Chief Research Officer at the American College of Radiology and as the Principal Investigator for the NCI-funded ECOG-ACRIN-sponsored Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) which is comparing digital mammography to tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening and has recruited 108,600 women at 133 sites around the world since it opened in July 2017. She holds faculty appointments in radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
After completing her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Dartmouth College, Dr. Pisano received her MD from Duke University School of Medicine. She did her radiology residency at Beth Israel Hospital at Harvard Medical School. She next served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina Medical School where she was founding Chief of Breast Imaging for 16 years before becoming Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, overseeing the research and education missions of the medical school. While at UNC, she also served as the first Principal Investigator for the CTSA grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the founding Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center. After serving as Dean of the College of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina, she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School serving as Professor in Residence at Beth Israel-Deaconess Health System from 2015-2021. Her career has focused on breast imaging with a special focus on the development and testing of new technologies, most recently studying the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to breast cancer screening. She has extensive experience assisting companies who are seeking authorization from the FDA for sale of their devices, including software, in the US.