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Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH, FACR, a nationally renowned physician-scientist at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center, has been named Chair of the department of Radiology at Penn Medicine, effective June 1, 2025.
Pandharipande has served as Chair of Radiology at The OSU College of Medicine and Chief of Radiology Services at Wexner Medical Center since 2021. Under her leadership at OSU, the department has substantially grown its imaging infrastructure, volumes, and service line, and has significantly expanded its training program.
She previously spent 17 years at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a physician and researcher, studying topics ranging from imaging value to cancer screening, surveillance, and treatment selection. Pandharipande also served as Associate Chair of Integrated Imaging and Imaging Sciences and as Executive Director of Clinical Enterprise Integration for Mass General Brigham Radiology, leading a transformative project for integration of imaging services across MGH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and their community affiliates.
“Dr. Pandharipande brings a wealth of experience in key leadership roles that uniquely position her to lead our ‘One Penn Medicine Radiology’ efforts at this critical time for health care,” said Kevin B. Mahoney, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Pandharipande brings strong national leadership experience, currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Radiological Society of North America, where she oversees the Government Relations portfolio, and on the Advisory Board of the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute. She also has served as Chair of the American Cancer Society’s Healthcare Outcomes, Policy, and Systems grant review committee and currently serves as a member of the NIH’s Organization and Delivery of Health Services study section.
Pandharipande earned both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Cornell University. She completed an internship at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell and her diagnostic radiology residency at New York University Medical Center. She earned her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“We are fortunate for her guidance as Penn Medicine Radiology continues to set new standards for the role of imaging in health care delivery of the future.” said Jonathan A. Epstein, MD, Interim Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine.
Founded in 1898, Penn Medicine’s Department of Radiology is the first academic department of radiology in the world. Penn Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
