Mary Helene Scanlon, MD FACR, is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at Penn Medicine and the Vice Chair of Education. She divides her clinical practice between the Division of Neuroradiology at Penn Medicine and the Department of Radiology of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Her subspecialty within Neuroradiology is Head and Neck. She has been program director for Diagnostic Radiology since 2006, which is the same year she won the Wallace T. Miller Sr. Teaching Award.
Dr. Scanlon’s research interests center on radiology education and new ways to reach Gen Z and Millennials.
She is passionate about organizational and political activism:
• She is past president of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society and Pennsylvania Radiological Society. She was the honored radiologist by both societies.
• She is the current faculty liaison to PRS RFS section.
• She is President of APDR (Association of Program Directors in Radiology), APDR Councilor to ACR and is currently chairing a national task force on how to ensure that resident training meets the procedural needs of the populations we serve.
• She is currently a board member and Treasurer for ACR’s RadPac.
• She was named 2020 ACR Advocate of the Year.