Mammography expert to serve as Applebaum Visiting Professor at UF Jacksonville

Carl D'Orsi, M.D., director of oncologic imaging and of the division of breast imaging at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute, will discuss the latest advances in the field of mammography during his four days as the Joseph and Leila Applebaum Visiting Professor at the University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville beginning Thursday.

His noon lectures on Thursday and Friday will be teleconferenced from Jacksonville to Room 4150 of the 1329 Building in Gainesville. D'Orsi is among the investigators in a nationwide mammography study that compares digital and standard mammograms of 45,000 women. He will review basic technical aspects of digital mammography and the largest obstacle facing digital mammography today "monitors" during his talk at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Epping Forest Yacht Club.

Prior to that, he will discuss "path-mammo correlation based on Bi-Rads classifications" at noon Thursday in the Alumni Auditorium at the Health Science Center in Jacksonville. On Friday, he will discuss breast ultrasound at noon. Both lectures will be teleconferenced to the 1329 Building.

D'Orsi was nominated for the Applebaum professorship by Harry Griffiths, M.D., FACR, professor of radiology and orthopaedics at UF Health Science Center in Jacksonville and director of the diagnostic radiology residency program.

Before joining Emory University, D'Orsi served as professor and vice chairman of the department of radiology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. Before that he served as the assistant director of radiology at the Charles A. Dana Cancer Research Center in Boston. He studied at Emory under Dr. Richard Egan, known as the father of mammography.

Please call 904-244-2210 for more information.