Matthew J. Wilson Associate Professor of Research Radiology

Associate Chair of Research, Department of Radiology

Clinical Director, MMRRCC

Contact

Department of Radiology

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

3400 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

Tel: 215-662-7238

Fax: 215-662-3013

Email: mitchell.schnall@uphs.upenn.edu

Education

BA, 1981 University of Pennsylvania (Physics)

MD, 1986 University of Pennsylvania

PhD, 1986 University of Pennsylvania (Biophysics)

Recent Work

Research Interests

To improve diagnostic capabilities for high risk of cancer and cancer patients.

To develop an understanding of the relative performance of the new generation of breast imaging modalities.

To develop anatomic and functional markers of SERM effect on the breast.

Honors and Awards

1989 Outstanding Paper Award, Society of Uroradiology

1992 Lauterber Award, Society of Computed Body Tomography and MR

1992 RSNA Scholars Award

1999 Luigi Mastroianni Clinical Innovator Award

Publications

• Aberle, D.R., Chiles, C., Gatsonis, C., Hillman, B.J., Johnson, C.D., McClennan, B.L., Mitchell, D.G., Pisano, E.D., Schnall, M.D., Sorensen, A.G. American College of Radiology Imaging Network. Imaging and cancer: research strategy of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network', Radiology 235(3): 741-51 (2005).

• Lehman, C.D., Schnall, M.D., Kuhl, C.K., Harms, S.E. 'Report of the Working Groups on Breast MRI: report of the High-Risk Screening Group', Breast Journal 10 Suppl 2:S9-S12 (2004).

• Lee SG, Orel SG, Woo IJ, Cruz-Jove E, Putt ME, Solin LJ, Czerniecki BJ, Schnall MD. MR imaging screening of the contralateral breast in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer: preliminary results. Radiology226: 773-778; 2003.

• Uematsu H, Dougherty L, Takahashi M, Butler NS, Song HK, Ohno Y, Gefter WB, Schnall MD, Hatabu H. A direct comparison of signal behavior between 4.0 and 1.5 T: a phantom study. European Journal of Radiology 45: 154-159; (2003).

• Tillman GF, Orel SG, Schnall MD, Schultz DJ, Tan JE, and Solin LJ. Effect of breast magnetic resonance imaging on the clinical management of women with early-stage breast carcinoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 20 (16): 3413-3423; (2002).

• Lo, LD, Orel, SG, and Schnall, MD. MR imaging-guided interventions in the breast. MRI Clinics of North America 9(2):373-380; (2001).

• Seltzer SE, Getty DJ, Pickett RM, Swets JA, Sica G, Brown J, Saini S, Mattrey RF, Harmon B, Francis IR, Chezmar J, Schnall MD, Siegelman ES, Ballerini R, Bhat S. Multimodality diagnosis of liver tumors: feature analysis with CT, liver-specific and contrast-enhanced MR, and a computer model. Acad Radiol 9:256-269; (2002).

• Azar FS, Metaxas, DN, Schnall MD. Methods for modeling and predicting mechanical deformations of the breast under external perturbations. Medical Image Analysis 6:1-27; (2002).

• Schnall, MD, Rosten, S, Englander, S, Orel, SG, Nunes, LW. A combined architectural and kinetic interpretation model for breast MR images. Acad Radiol 8:591-597; (2001).

• Lo, LD, Orel, SG, Schnall, MD. MR imaging-guided interventions in the breast. MRI Clinics of North America 9(2):373-380; (2001).

• Schnall MD. An overview of interpretation strategies for breast MR imaging. MRI Clinics of North America 9(2): 289-293.

• Schneider E, Rohling KW, Schnall MD, Giaquinto RO, Morris EA, Ballon D. An apparatus for MR-guided breast lesion localization and core biopsy: design and preliminary results. JMRM 14: 243-253 (2001).

• Ikeda, DM, Hylton NM, Kinkel K, Hochman MG, Kuhl CK, Kaiser WA, Weinreb JC, Smazal ST, Degani H, Viehweg P, Barclay J, and Schnall MD. Development, standardization, and testing of a lexicon for reporting contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging studies. JMRI 13(6): 889-895; 2001.

• Penn AI, Kumar NA, Thompson SF, Schnall MD, Wang F, Gatsonis C. Preliminary performance analysis of breast-MRI CAD system. The International Society for Optical Engineering 4322: (2001).

• Nunes LW, Schnall MD, and Orel SG. Update of breast MR imaging architectural interpretation model. Radiology 219: 484-494; 2001.

• Weinstein, SP, Orel, SG, Heller R, Reynolds C, Czerniecki B, Solin, LJ, Schnall, M. MR imaging of the breast in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma. AJR 176: 399-406 (2001).

• Schnall, MD, Ikeda, DM. Lesion diagnosis working group report. JMRI 10:(6)982-90 (2000).

• Kumar, NA, Schnall, MD. MR imaging: its current and potential utility in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. MRI Clinics of North America 8 (4):715-728 (2000).