Mitchell D. Schnall, MD, PhD
Group Co-Chair

Dr. Schnall is the group co-chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN), overseeing governance and scientific initiatives. He is the senior vice president for data and technology solutions for the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, a position he has held since 2024, following two terms as chair of the Department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, where he is the Eugene P. Pendergrass Professor of Radiology. He is a physician at Penn Medicine within its Abdominal Imaging Services program. He oversees ECOG-ACRIN’s large-scale Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) and serves as secretary/treasurer of the ECOG-ACRIN Medical Research Foundation. Dr. Schnall was a key architect of the merger that formed ECOG-ACRIN in 2012. He is an international leader in translational biomedical and imaging research, working throughout his career across the interface between basic imaging science and clinical medicine to ensure the effective integration of radiology research with other medical disciplines. His contributions have led to fundamental changes in the imaging approaches to breast and prostate cancers, and he continues to have a significant influence on emerging imaging technologies, including those in optical imaging.