Profile: Elizabeth A Morris, MD, FACR

Professor Elizabeth Morris is a radiologist who has dedicated her career to advance early breast cancer detection through improvements in breast imaging. She developed the breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) where she has been an attending for the last 13 years.

Elizabeth was educated at University of California San Francisco medical school and completed her radiology residency at Cornell Medical College. She is a fellow of the society of Breast Imaging and chair of the American College of Radiology Accreditation for breast MRI. She has been Principle Investigator of several IRB protocols including: “Breast MRI Positioning, Localization and Biopsy Device”, “Breast MRI using a Bilateral Sequence”, “Breast MR Spectroscopy” and “Breast MRI High Risk Screening”.

A grant from the Susan B Komen Foundation was instrumental in allowing her to pioneer the work on Breast MRI screening. Along with others, she has found that breast MRI is exquisitely sensitive in the detection of breast cancer and allows better characterization of known cancers along with better detection of early cancer in high risk groups of women.

She is considered one of the leaders in the field of breast imaging both nationally and internationally and has been an invited speaker at over 200 meetings throughout the world. She has authored or co-authored over 80 papers. Her best selling book on Breast MRI has become the standard in the field. She hopes that one day breast cancer can be detected early enough to be treated without radical therapies. Her future research will be in this direction.

Elizabeth A Morris, MD, FACR

Director, Breast MRI and Breast Imaging Research
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center