Faculty & Staff
Emily Fox Conant
Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
HUP Medical Legal Committee, Penn Medicine
Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Department of Radiology/1 Silverstein
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology/1 Silverstein
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2156624032
Fax: 2156627436
Fax: 2156627436
Email:
emily.conant@uphs.upenn.edu
emily.conant@uphs.upenn.edu
Education:
B.A. (Zoology)
University of Vermont, 1976.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
B.A. (Zoology)
University of Vermont, 1976.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, PA, 1984-1985.
Radiology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1985-1989.
Fellowship-Concentration Year Pulmonary & Breast Imaging, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1988-1989.
Intern, Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, PA, 1984-1985.
Radiology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1985-1989.
Fellowship-Concentration Year Pulmonary & Breast Imaging, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1988-1989.
Certifications
Diplomat National Board of Medical Examiners, 1985.
Written Radiology Board Completion, 1988.
Oral Radiology Board Completion, 1989.
Permanent linkDiplomat National Board of Medical Examiners, 1985.
Written Radiology Board Completion, 1988.
Oral Radiology Board Completion, 1989.
Description of Research Expertise
Multi-modality Breast Imaging, Breast Cancer Screening, High Risk ScreeningDescription of Clinical Expertise
Multi-modality Breast Imaging and Interventional ProceduresDescription of Other Expertise
Patient EducationSelected Publications
Pati S, Reum J, Conant E, tuton LW, Scott P, Abbuhl S, Grisso JA: Tradition meets innovation: Transforming academic medical culture at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Acad Med 88(4), April 2013.McCarthy AM, Armstrong K, Handorf E, Boghossian L, Jones L, Chen J, Demeter MB, McGuire, Conant EF, Domcheck SM: Incremental impact of breast cancer SNP panel on risk classification in a screening population of white and African-American women. Breast Cancer Res Treat March 2013.
Daye D, Keller B, Conant EF, Chen J, Schnall MD, Maidment ADA, Kontos D: Mammographic parenchymal patterns as an imaging marker of endogenous hormonal exposure: A preliminary study in high-risk population. Academic Radiology 2013 Notes: accepted for publication.
Keller BM, Nathan DL, Gavenonis SC, Chen J, Conant EF, Kontos D: Reader variability in breast density estimation from full-field digital mammograms: The effect of imaging post-processing on relative and absolute measures. Academic Radiology 2013 Notes: accepted for publication.
Keller BM, Nathan DL, Wang Y, Zheng Y, Gee JC, Conant EF, Kontos D: Estimation of breast density in raw and processed full field digital mammography images via adaptive fuzzy e-means clustering and support vector machine segmentation. Medical Physics 39(8): 4903-17, August 2012 Notes: Published online July 25, 2012 DOI: 10.1118/1.4736530.
Wu S, Weinstein S, Keller B, Conant E, Kontos D: Fully-automated fibroglandular tissue segmentation in breast MRI. Breast Imaging (IWDM), Lecture notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ADA Maidment, PR Bakic, S Gavenonis (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 7361: 244-251, June 2012.
Keller B, Conant E, Oh H, Kontos D: Breast cancer risk prediction via area and volumetric estimates of breast density. Breast Imaging (IWDM, Lecture notes in computer Science (LNCS). ADA Maidment, PR Bakic, S Gavenonis (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 7361: 236-43, June 2012.
Karemore G, Keller B, Oh H, Tchou J, Nielsen M, Conant E, Kontos D: Mammographic parenchymal texture analysis for estrogen-receptor subtype specific breast cancer risk estimation. Breast Imaging (IWDM), Lecture notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ADA Maidment, PR Bakic, Gavenonis G (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 7361: 596-603, June 2012.
Rauscher GH, Allgood KL, Whitman S, Conant E: Disparities in screening mammography services by race/ethnicity and health insurance. J Women's Health 21(2): 154-60, Feb 2012 Notes: Epub 2011 Sep 23.
Wu S, Weinstein SP, Conant EF, Localio AR, Schnall MD, Kontos D: Fully automated chest wall line segmentation in breast MRI by using context information. SPIE Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis. B VanGinneken, CL Novak (eds.). Feb 2012 Notes: accepted, oral.
