Elizabeth S Burnside MD, MPH, FACR

A champion for leveraging innovation to improve clinical care, Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, is a professor of radiology specializing in breast imaging and associate dean for team science and interdisciplinary research at UW. Dr. Burnside combines her medical training with her interests in public health and computer science—areas of expertise that converge in her development and use of computational methods to improve decision-making in breast imaging. She holds affiliate appointments in UW’s departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and Population Health Sciences, facilitating her pursuit of improving the population-based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.

Dr. Burnside has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Her research has secured continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 2006. She is a multiple principal investigator (MPI) of the NIH Clinical and Translational Sciences Award that supports the UW Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, where she is executive co-director. Previously, Dr. Burnside served UW Department of Radiology as vice chair of research and then vice chair of health services and outcomes. She was honored by UW’s Group on Women in Medicine and Science with the 2023 Advancing Women in Medicine and Science Award. She delivered an RSNA 2023 plenary session focusing on the integration of artificial and human intelligence in imaging. In 2024, she was awarded the RSNA gold medal, which highlights her exceptional impact on the field of radiology. Dr. Burnside is the first radiologist from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and the 22nd woman, to receive this honor since the award’s inception in 1919.

An avid student of effective leadership principles and professional development, Dr. Burnside has completed the UW Physician Leadership Development Program (PLDP), Drexel University Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), and UW Joseph F. Kauffman Administrative Development Program (The Kauffman Seminar).