Pamela K. Woodard, MD, is the Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she is also the Senior Vice Chair and Division Director of Radiological Research Facilities. In this role she provides administrative oversight to the directors of the department’s ten research facilities. These include the pre-clinical and clinical imaging PET and MRI research facilities, the Cyclotron Facility, and the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC). She is also Head of Cardiac MR/CT, Director of the Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR) and Director of the Research Residency Program. Prior to her role as Sr. Vice Chair, she served as the Vice Chair of Clinical Translational Research.

Dr. Woodard leads her own research program and led one of the key projects on the Washington University NIH contract, Programs of Excellence in Nanotechnology (PEN) which developed a receptor-targeted radiotracer for atherosclerotic plaque imaging. She is PI or MPI on several NIH R01 grants and is PI of the MIR NIH T32 TOP-TIER training grant in translational imaging research.  She has over 180 manuscripts, several patents and has served on NIH study sections, including as a standing member on Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS) and Medical Imaging (MEDI).  She most recently served for two years as chair of the NIH study section, Imaging Guided Interventions and Surgery (IGIS). She has received numerous awards for her work including being named an Academy of Radiology Research Distinguished Investigator.

She is a member of many professional organizations, including the American College of Radiology (ACR) where she serves on the Board of Chancellors, the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research where she serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), American Heart Association (AHA), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and Society for Cardiac Computed Tomography (SCCT). She is past president of the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI). She is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR), American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR), and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (FNASCI).