The Robert E. Campbell Professor in Radiology
This Professorship was established in 2019, and honors Robert E. Campbell, MD (M’57, INT’59), former professor of radiology at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Campbell was born in Salem, Ohio. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, earned a BA from Harvard, and a medical degree from the Penn School of Medicine in 1957. He then interned at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1959 and served a residency at HUP.
He contributed more than 50 years of service to Pennsylvania Hospital, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Campbell joined the faculty at Penn’s School of Medicine in 1958 as an assistant instructor of radiology. He was an instructor and a resident from 1961 to 1964 and then became a full instructor. He became an assistant professor in 1970, an associate professor in 1973 and a professor in 1976, all in radiology. He left Penn in 1995 but returned in 1997 as a clinical professor; he stayed at Penn until 2011.
He served in the radiology department at Pennsylvania Hospital from 1955 to 2005 and was chair of radiology from 1986 to 2005. This past January, HUP announced the Robert E. Campbell Endowed Professorship in Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital.
In addition to mentoring radiologists at PSOM, he also worked with young radiologists at Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) and was a consultant to Wills Eye Hospital. He served the College of Physicians of Philadelphia as board chairman and president.
Dr. Campbell was involved with the Radiological Society of North America for two decades, holding numerous positions including first vice president in 1981 and president in 1989. He was a founding trustee and chairman of the Radiological Society of North America’s Research and Education Foundation. In 1993, he received the society’s Gold Medal. He also served as chancellor of the American College of Radiology and received the College’s Gold Medal in 2006. He was chairman of the examination committee of the American Board of Radiology and the first honorary member of the European Congress of Radiology (now the European Society of Radiology). Dr. Campbell received Pennsylvania Hospital’s Good Samaritan Award in 2004 and the Philadelphia County Medical Society’s 2007 Strittmatter Award, the organization’s highest honor.
He authored numerous publications and was editor of Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology.
Current Chairholder
Brian S. Englander, MD
Brian S. Englander, MD is the Chair of the Department of Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital and the Robert E. Campbell Professor in Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Englander focuses on breast imaging and interventions with a focus on minimally invasive biopsy technology and health care innovations. He also has a particular interest in addressing women’s health inequities locally and globally. His work and research focuses on reducing barriers to breast cancer screening and offering technology to diagnose and manage cancer early. He is spearheading efforts to implement mobile cancer screening and diagnosis to improve access and reduce disparities in Philadelphia and beyond.
In 2018, he became an Eisenhower Fellowships USA Fellow, traveling to Israel and Mongolia, and he is a Penn Center for Global Health Scholar.
Dr. Englander joined Penn Medicine after completing an internship in internal medicine, a residency in diagnostic radiology, and fellowship in women’s imaging at Jefferson Medical College. He earned a BA in history and molecular biophysics & biochemistry at Yale University and an MD at Jefferson Medical College.