Edward A. Sickles, MD

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 -- 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.