Pamela K Woodard

Pamela K. Woodard is an American radiologist specializing in cardiovascular imaging. She is the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology and the Director the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. She also holds appointments as a professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Early life and education Woodard was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She has said that she wanted to be a physician from the age of four.

Woodard completed her bachelor's degree at Duke University. She remained at Duke for her medical degree,

Research and career In 1997, Woodard was appointed to the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where she established multi-detector CT scanning as the standard means to diagnose blood clots. These radiotracers can detect proteins that are associated with plaques, which can cause sudden heart attack and stroke, or monitor blood flow through heart muscles. In 2021, she was named the Radiological Society of North America Outstanding Researcher of the Year. In 2022, Woodard was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and also elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She has served on the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology, and in April 2024, Woodard was elected as President of the American College of Radiology for 2024–2025. In November of 2024, Woodard was chosen as President of The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. The Academy is a non-profit organization committed to advancing federal support of the NIH, and it was instrumental in advocating for the establishment of NIH's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering in 2001. In February of 2025, Woodard was named as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Research and Education (R&E) Foundation of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The R&E Foundation invests in the future of radiology by developing investigators and supporting biomedical imaging research through grant funding. In September of 2025, Woodard was awarded a gold medal by the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging in recognition of her career contributions to cardiac imaging. Selected publications