From the December 2014 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Etta D. Pisano, M.D.
Pisano became the first woman dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 2010. But her biggest contributions to radiology have been the research and testing she has done to integrate emerging technology into breast imaging. Her groundbreaking study, Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Tool (DMIST), was the largest clinical trial ever led by a radiologist, and provided essential information about the efficacy of digital mammography.
Pisano served MUSC as vice president for medical affairs and dean of the College of Medicine from 2010 to 2014. Prior to her positions at MUSC, Pisano served in numerous positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including vice dean for academic affairs in the School of Medicine, Kenan Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, founding director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, and director of the Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. From 1989 until 2005, she served as founding chief of breast imaging at UNC Hospitals.
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Pisano received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College and earned her medical degree from Duke University. She completed her radiology residency at Beth Israel Hospital of Harvard Medical School and remained at the institution as chief of breast imaging and instructor in radiology for one year. In 2003, she was appointed the first director of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), a core facility that develops and commercializes new imaging technologies. She successfully raised over $20 million from private donors, industry and the university to support its activities and helped to convince the State of North Carolina to fund the construction of the Marsico Building where the BRIC is housed.
Pisano gained international attention as the principal investigator of DMIST, a study which enrolled 49,528 women to compare digital to film mammography. The results of the $26 million study, published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that digital mammograms are as reliable as film mammograms and are better at finding breast cancer in young women and those with dense breast tissue.
