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Etta Driscoll Pisano, M.D., F.A.C.R., received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and earned her MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1983. She trained in radiology at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before serving as their Chief of Breast Imaging and Instructor in Radiology.

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In 1989, Pisano joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in Radiology. She served as Chief of Breast Imaging at UNC Hospitals until stepping down in 2005. During her final year as chief, Pisano was the principal investigator of the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, a study on the importance of digital mammography for young women. She was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in 2006 and held the title of Kenan Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. In 2007, she was named the inaugural Director of UNC’s Center for Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Imaging. The following year, she was named the principal investigator of a five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award grant administered by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. Pisano’s research resulted in her election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.

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Pisano served as Dean of the MUSC College of Medicine – the first woman to hold this position – and Vice President for Medical Affairs from 2010 to 2014, when she stepped down to focus on breast cancer imaging research. She returned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Radiology. While serving in this position, Pisano led the first randomized trial to compare two types of digital mammography for breast cancer screening. The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial compares standard digital mammography (2-D) to digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D) to determine if digital breast tomosynthesis is more effective at reducing advanced breast cancers.

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Pisano was named Chief Science Officer of the American College of Radiography Center for Research and Innovation. She held this position until becoming the American College of Radiography’s first woman Chief Research Officer. Since November 2015, she has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School.

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In recognition of her pioneering work in breast imaging research, Pisano is a recipient of the Gold Medal from the Association of University Radiologists (2010), the American Roentgen Ray Society (2012), and the Radiologic Society of North America (2014) and of the Alice Ettinger Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Association for Women Radiologists (2012). At MUSC and UNC, Dr. Pisano received honors for her work on behalf of faculty diversity. She received the National Women’s History Museum Helen Taussig Living Legacy Award in 2013.