Savannah Partridge, Ph.D., to be named Honorary Fellow at upcoming Breast Imaging Symposium

Savannah Partridge, Ph.D., will be inducted as an Honorary Fellow at the Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology (SBI/ACR) Breast Imaging Symposium, to be held May 16-19, 2022. Honorary Fellow status is designated to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to breast imaging.

Dr. Partridge, a professor of Radiology and research director of the Breast Imaging Section, is the only breast imaging faculty member at University of Washington who has been recognized for their contributions and impact by both the SBI/ACR and the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research, where she previously received the Distinguished Investigator award. 

She leads the Quantitative Breast Imaging research laboratory developing advanced MRI acquisition and analysis techniques for clinical breast applications. Her research group works to improve breast cancer screening technologies and to improve treatment outcomes through better differentiation of high and low risk disease and evaluation of therapeutic efficacy. She collaborates closely with multidisciplinary clinicians and scientists and mentors numerous students and trainees. She is also an active member in national oncology and imaging cooperative groups and has led two multicenter trials evaluating innovative breast MRI techniques (ECOG-ACRIN trials A6702 and A6698).