Elizabeth Burnside, MD, MPH, MS, FACR, is a Professor of Radiology at UW-Madison, as well as Deputy Executive Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). Her degrees include an M.D. combined with a master’s in Public Health as well as a master’s degree in Medical Informatics. As a result, her research investigates the use of computational methods to improve decision-making in the domain of breast imaging in the pursuit of improving the population based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. This multidisciplinary research is facilitated by affiliate appointments in the Departments of Industrial Engineering, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and Population Health Science at UW.

Roberta Strigel, MD, MS, is Chief of Breast Imaging Section for the Department of Radiology at UW-Madison. She received an undergraduate degree in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University and undergraduate and master’s degrees in engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. She returned to her home state of Wisconsin to attend medical school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She then completed her radiology residency and breast imaging fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle and has a research interest in breast MRI.

Stephanie Whitehorse, MS, is a Senior Intellectual Property Manager at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). She manages intellectual property in the fields of biomedical engineering, medical physics, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, micro and nanotechnologies, materials and processing as well as electrical engineering, computer science and software. Further, Stephanie works with the General Counsel, WARF staff and the university community to revise and implement WARF’s intellectual property procedures and policies.