Elizabeth S. McDonald, MD
Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director, Breast MRI
- Co-Director, Breast Cancer Translational Research Group
- Program Director, Breast/Women's Imaging Fellowship
- Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Mayo Graduate School of MedicineMedical School
- Mayo ClinicResidency
- Mayo ClinicFellowship
- University of Washington HospitalsFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. McDonald is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2008
- Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Local
- American College of Radiology, International
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), International
- Breast Cancer Alliance, National
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ECOG-ACRIN) Cancer Research Group; Breast Committee (2016-present) | Laboratory Science and Pathology Committee (2020-present) | Laboratory and Pathology Sciences Committee (2021-present) | Non-contrast imaging working group (2022-present), International
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ECOG-ACRIN) Image Analytics Working Group, International
- I-SPY 2 TRIAL: Neoadjuvant and Personalized Adaptive Novel Agents to Treat Breast Cancer (I-SPY 2): Site PI for Radiology, International
- ISPY-2 imaging working group | Biomarker subgroup (2020-present) | Diffusion imaging subgroup (2020-present), International
- ISPY-2 working group, International
- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Local
- Society of Breast Imaging, National
- The Chrysalis Initiative, National
- The Doctor's Mayo Society of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association, National
- Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium (TBCRC) Correlative Science Working Group | Locoregional Disease Working Group, International
- Women’s Campaign International, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
McDonald, ES, Scheel, JR, Lewin, AA, Weinstein, SP, Dodelzon, K, Dogan, BE, Fitzpatrick, A, Kuzmiak, CM, Newell, MS, Paulis, LV, Pilewskie, M, Salkowski, LR, Sanford, MF, Silva, C, Sharpe, RE, Specht, J, Ulaner, GA, Slanetz, PJ. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Imaging of Invasive Breast Cancer. , Journal of the American College of Radiology: 2024,S168-S202
Young, AJ, Pantel, AR, Kiani, M, Doot, RK, Bagheri, S, Pryma, DA, Farwell, MD, Li, S, Lee, H, Schubert, E, Secreto, A, Zuckerman, S, Nayak, A, Choi, H, Carlin, S, DeMichele, A, Mankoff, DA, Zhou, R, Mach, RH, McDonald, ES. "Kinetic Analysis and Metabolism of Poly-(Adenosine Diphosphate- Ribose) Polymerase-1–Targeted 18F-Fluorthanatrace PET in Breast Cancer" , Journal of Nuclear Medicine: 2024
McDonald, ES, Pan, T, Pant, DK, Troester, MA, Kossenkov, AV, Mankoff, DA, Mach, RH, Chodosh, L. Ternary Complex Components Responsible for Rapid LDL Internalization as Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Associated with Proliferation and Early Recurrence , Cancer Research Communications, 5: 2025,226-239
McDonald, ES, Doot, RK, Pantel, AR, Farwell, MD, Mach, RH, Maxwell, KN, Mankoff, DA Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Poly-(Adenosine Diphosphate-Ribose) Polymerase 1 Expression in Breast Cancer: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial , JAMA Oncology, 6(6): 2020,921-923
Zuckerman S and McDonald ES Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) and ACR Accreditation Programs , CORE Requisites series in breast imaging: 2022
McDonald ES, Pantel AR, Shah PD, Farwell MD, Clark AS, Doot RK, Pryma DA, Carlin SD. In vivo visualization of PARP inhibitor pharmacodynamics , JCI Insight, 6(8): 2022,e146592.
McDonald ES, Romanoff J, Rahbar H, Kitsch AE, Harvey SM, Whisenant JG, Yankeelov TE, Moy L, DeMartini WB, Dogan BE, Yang WT, Wang LC, Joe BN, Wilmes LJ, Hylton NM, Oh KY, Tudorica LA, Neal CH, Malyarenko DI, Comstock CE, Schnall MD, Chenevert TL, Partridge SC. Mean Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Is a Sufficient Conventional Diffusion-weighted MRI Metric to Improve Breast MRI Diagnostic Performance: Results from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group A6702 Diffusion Imaging Trial , Radiology, 298(1): 2021,60-70
Chitalia, R., Pati, S., Bhalerao, M., Thakur, S., Jahani, N., Belenky, J. V., McDonald, E., Gibbs, J., Newitt, D., Hylton, N., Kontos, D., & Bakas, S. Expert tumor annotations and radiomic features for the ISPY1/ACRIN 6657 trial data collection [Data set]. , The Cancer Imaging Archive. (NCI): 2022
Lee, HS, Schwarz, SW, Schubert, EK, Chen, DL, Doot, RK, Makvandi, M, Lin, LL, McDonald, ES, Mankoff, DA, Mach, RH. The Development of 18F Fluorthanatrace: A PET Radiotracer for Imaging Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 , Radiol Imaging Cancer, 4(1): 2022,e210070.
O'Brien SR, Ward R, Wu GG, Bagheri S, Kiani M, Challa A, Ulaner GA, Pantel AR, McDonald ES. Other Novel PET Radiotracers for Breast Cancer , PET Clin, 18(4): 2023,557-566