Penn Medicine Provider
Radiology
Elizabeth S. McDonald, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Director, Breast MRI
  • Co-Director, Breast Cancer Translational Research Group
  • Program Director, Breast/Women's Imaging Fellowship
  • Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Mayo Medical School
  • Residency: Mayo Clinic
  • Fellowship: Mayo Clinic
  • Fellowship: University of Washington Hospital and Clinics

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. McDonald is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Park, KU, Somerfield, MR, Nirupama, A, Brackstone, M, Conlin, AK, Couto, HL, Dengel, LT, Eisen, A, Harvey, BE, Hawley, J, Kim, JN, Lasebikan, N, McDonald, ES, Pradhan, D, Shams, S, Mailhot Vega, R, Thompson, AM, Torres, MA Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update , Journal of Clinical Oncology: 2025


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: 2025


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


O’Brien, SR, Medrano, D, Birnbaum, J, McDonald, ES, Conant, EC, Weinstein, SP, Fayanju, OM, Zuckerman, SP, Edmonds, CE. Feasibility and Accuracy of Ultrasound-Guided Core Needle Biopsy for Nipple Abnormalities , Journal of Breast Imaging: 2024


Lee, M*, Nguyen, B, Jung, J, Razzak, E, Oluyemi, ET, McDonald, ES, Miles, RC, Sadigh, G, Carlos, R. Assessing the correlation between allostatic load and image-guided breast biopsies in false positive mammograms. , Journal of Women's Health: 2024


McDonald, ES and Conant, EC Can AI reduce the harms of screening mammography? , Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 5(6): 2023,e230304.


Chitalia R, Miliotis M, Jahani N, Tastsoglou S, McDonald ES, Belenky V, Cohen EA, Newitt D, Van't Veer LJ, Esserman L, Hylton N, DeMichele A, Hatzigeorgiou A, Kontos D. Radiomic tumor phenotypes augment molecular profiling in predicting recurrence free survival after breast neoadjuvant chemotherapy , Commun Med (Lond), 3(1): 2023,46


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


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