Center for
Global Health

Scholar

Languages Spoken - English, Hebrew (moderate), Russian and Mongolian 

BIO STATEMENT

Brian S. Englander, M.D. is the Robert E. Campbell Professor of Clinical Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and serves as Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine. He is a board certified, fellowship-trained diagnostic radiologist, with sub-specialization in breast imaging and intervention. He has a particular interest in addressing women's health inequities regionally and globally. As a 2018 Eisenhower Fellow (USA), he visited Mongolia and Israel to understand cultural, religious, and ethnic barriers to health care, in particular breast cancer, and opportunities to address these barriers in the United States. He established an NGO, Benek Global Health Project, which focuses on these same issues, as well as the impact of conflict upon healthcare. He has worked in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) to intersect with the accompaniment model to reduce barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening. He works with local physicians in Mongolia, Rwanda, Vietnam, India, and Israel to optimize breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and management, and to establish standardized breast cancer services. He also is involved in applying new technology globally and an inexpensive pre-screening device for breast cancer in LMIC. He is currently establishing mobile cancer and community screening program through Penn Medicine to address health inequities and access issues in the Philadelphia region and beyond.

RECENT GLOBAL HEALTH PROJECTS

Working with APHA (American Public Health Association) on the Role of Public Health in War/Conflict and cited Israeli policy.

Working as part of the strategic group for the implementation of Penn Center for Global Cancer under Larry Shulman, et al.

Established curriculum for medical student education at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Rwanda.

Working with colleagues at U Minnesota and U Utah to work with the National Cancer Center of Mongolia (NCCM) and establish a breast cancer program in Mongolia, initially in Gobi region. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Landesman LY, Rubinstein RA, Englander BS: Peacebuilding Through Cooperation in Health Care and Public Health Between Israel and Palestine. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 30(3): 315-318, May/June 2024.

Julie M. Clanahan, Sanjana Reddy, Robyn B. Broach, Anne F. Rositch, Benjamin O. Anderson, E. Paul Wileyto, Brian S. Englander, Ari D. Brooks Clinical utility of a hand-held scanner for breast cancer early detection and patient triage JCO Glob Oncol. 2020 Feb;6:27-34 doi: 10.1200/JGO.19.00205

Robyn B. Broach, Rula Geha, Brian S. Englander, Lucy, DeLaCruz, Holly Thrash, & Ari D. Brooks  A cost-effective handheld breast scanner for use in low-resource environments: a validation study World J. Surg Oncol. 2016 Oct 28;14(1):277. doi:10.1186/s12957-016-0122-2

Last Updated: 12 December 2024