Biography / Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD / Represents Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM)
Education:
She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and PhD from Temple University, both in Experimental Psychology.
Achievements:
Dr. Krupinski has published extensively. She serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals in both radiology and telemedicine, is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, and serves on review panels for the NIH, DoD, FDA and TATRC.
Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD is a Professor at the University of Arizona in Radiology and Psychology; and is Vice-Chair of Research for the Radiology Department. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and PhD from Temple University, both in Experimental Psychology. She began her career at Arizona in 1992 after initially becoming involved in radiology image perception as a Research Assistant in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn she was engaged in some of the early research studies using eye-position tracking to understand the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying image interpretation, and at Arizona runs one of the main labs doing eye-position recording studies in medical imaging. Her main interests are in medical image perception, assessment of observer performance, and human factors as they relate to the interpretation of medical images.
The impact of the digital reading environment on radiologists, diagnostic accuracy and the efficiency with which they interpret exams has been a major focus of her research, and in recent years has been investigating the role of reader fatigue. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program. She has published extensively in both of these areas, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.
She serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals in both radiology and telemedicine, is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, and serves on review panels for the NIH, DoD, FDA and TATRC. She is the President of the Medical Image Perception Society (MIPS), Past President of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and in 2010 will begin a 2-year term as Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
