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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
EDWARD A. SICKLES, MD

Professor, Radiology; and Section Chief, Breast Imaging, UCSF

CONTACT

(415) 885-7465 (appts)
(415) 885-7829 (fax)

Box 1667, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1667

additional websites:

UCSF Physician Referral Directory

EDUCATION

Columbia University, A.B., 1961-65, Zoology, Chemistry
Cornell University Medical College, M.D., 1965-69, Medicine
Cornell Cooperating Hospitals, Intern & Resident, 1969-71, Internal Medicine
National Cancer Institute, Clinical Associate, 1971-73, Medical Oncology
University of California San Francisco, Residency 1973-75, Diagnostic Radiology
University of California San Francisco, Fellowship, 1976, Acad. trainee in Diagnostic Radiology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 1976-June 1976

Clinical Instructor, Radiology, Chief, Mammography & Thermography, UCSF

July 1976-December 1976

Instructor, Radiology; Chief, Mammography & Thermography, UCSF

January 1977-June 1978

Assistant Professor, Radiology; Chief, Mammography & Thermography, UCSF

July 1978-June 1982

Assistant Professor, Radiology; Chief, Breast Imaging Section, UCSF

July 1982-June 1987

Associate Professor, Radiology; Chief, Breast Imaging Section, UCSF

July 1987-present

Professor, Radiology; Chief, Breast Imaging Section, UCSF

HONORS & AWARDS

1965

A.B., magna cum laude, Columbia University

1965

Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University

1969

Alpha Omega Alpha, Cornell University Medical College

1969

William Mecklenburg Polk Prize for research (Cornell Univ. Med. College)

1977

Outstanding Paper Award, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

1978

Cum Laude Award (Scientific Exhibit), Radiological Society of North America

1978-81

American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Clinical Fellowship

1989

Fellow, American College of Radiology

1991

Susan G. Komen Foundation Community Service Award, San Francisco

1998

Wendell Scott Memorial Lecturer, American College of Radiology

1999

Gold Medalist, Society of Breast Imaging

2000

Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Radiology, UCSF School of Medicine

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(selected from a total of 291)

Sohlich RE, Sickles EA, Burnside ES, Dee KE. Interpreting data from audits when screening and diagnostic mammography outcomes are combined. Am J Roentgenol 2002; 178:681-686.

Beam CA, Conant EF, Sickles EA. Factors affecting radiologist inconsistency in screening mammography. Acad Radiol 2002; 9:531-540.

Sickles EA, Wolverton DE, Dee KE. Performance parameters for screening and diagnostic mammography: specialist and general radiologists. Radiology 2002; 224:861-869.

Burnside ES, Sickles EA, Sohlich RE, Dee KE. Differential value of comparison with previous examinations in diagnostic versus screening mammography. Am J Roent 2002; 179:1173-1177.

Ikeda DM, Birdwell RL, O'Shaughnessy KF, Brenner RJ, Sickles EA. Analysis of 172 subtle findingson prior normal mammograms in women with breast cancer detected at follow-up screening. Radiology2003; 226:494-503.

Beam CA, Conant EF, Sickles EA. Association of volume and volume-independent factors with accuracy in screening mammogram interpretation. J Natl Cancer Inst 2003;95:282 290.

Smith-Bindman R, Chu PW, Miglioretti DL, Sickles EA, Blanks R, Ballard-Barbash R, Bobo JK, LeeNC, Wallis MG, Patnick J, Kerlikowske K. Comparison of screening mammography in the United States and the United Kingdom. JAMA 2003; 290:2129-2137.

Beam CA, Conant EF, Sickles EA, Weinstein SP. Evaluation of proscriptive health care policy implementation in screening mammography. Radiology 2003; 229:534-540.

D'Orsi CJ, Bassett LW, Berg WA, Feig SA, Jackson VP, Kopans DB, Linver MN, MendelsonEB, Moss LJ, Sickles EA. Breast Imaging and Reporting Data System ив Mammography. 4th ed. Reston, VA: American College of Radiology, 2003.

Burnside ES, Rubin DL, Shachter RD, Sohlich RE, Sickles EA. A probabilistic expert system that provides automated mammographic-histologic correlation: initial experience. Am J Roentgenol 2004 182:481-488.

Ikeda DM, Birdwell RL, O'Shaughnessy KF, Sickles EA, Brenner RJ. Computer-aided detection output on 172 subtle findings on normal mammograms previously obtained in women with breast cancer detected at follow-up screening mammography. Radiology 2004; 230:811-819.

3/15/05

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