Elizabeth Burnside

About

Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, FACR, is a professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she also serves as Associate Dean for team science and interdisciplinary research. She specializes in breast imaging and is a champion for leveraging innovation to improve clinical care. Dr. Burnside combines her medical training with interests in public health and computer science, focusing on developing and utilizing computational methods to enhance decision-making in breast imaging. She holds affiliate appointments in the departments of Biostatistics, Medical Informatics, and Population Health Sciences, facilitating her work in improving population-based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Data science
• Marketing
• Gynecology
• Radiology
• Business
• Physics
• Biology

Selected publications

• A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · 851 citations

  BACKGROUND: Population-based estimates of the risk of breast cancer associated with germline pathogenic variants in cancer-predisposition genes are critically needed for risk assessment and management in women with inherited pathogenic variants. METHODS: In a population-based case-control study, we performed sequencing using a custom multigene amplicon-based panel to identify germline pathogenic variants in 28 cancer-predisposition genes among 32,247 women with breast cancer (case patients) and…

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• Cancer Yield and Patterns of Follow-up for BI-RADS Category 3 after Screening Mammography Recall in the National Mammography Database

  Radiology · 2020 · 75 citations

  See also the editorial by Moy in this issue.

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• Clinical implementation of AI-based screening for risk for opioid use disorder in hospitalized adults

  Nature Medicine · 2025-04-03 · 20 citations

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• A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being

  NEJM AI · 2025-11-26 · 19 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Electronic health record (EHR) documentation is a major contributor to work-related practitioner exhaustion and the interpersonal disengagement known as burnout. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) scribes that passively capture clinical conversations and draft visit notes may alleviate this burden, but evidence remains limited. METHODS: A 24-week, stepped-wedge, individually randomized pragmatic trial was conducted across ambulatory clinics in two states. Sixty-six health care p…

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• A Novel Playbook for Pragmatic Trial Operations to Monitor and Evaluate Ambient Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice

  NEJM AI · 2025-08-28 · 17 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) offers the potential to reduce documentation burden and improve efficiency through clinical note generation. Widespread adoption, however, remains limited due to challenges in electronic health record (EHR) integration, coding compliance, and real-world evaluation. This study introduces a framework and protocols to design, monitor, and deploy ambient AI within routine care. METHODS: , Tenth Revision (ICD-10) compliance were performed using an inte…

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Recent grants

• Mentoring And Research In Patient-Oriented Breast Cancer Diagnosis

  NIH · $963k · 2015–2020

• Integrating Machine Learning and Physician Expertise for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

  NIH · $1.2M · 2011–2016

• NIH Grant R01CA127379

  NIH · $1.4M · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Amy Trentham‐Dietz

  University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

  220 shared

• Oğuzhan Alagöz

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  206 shared

• Natasha K. Stout

  West Virginia University

  181 shared

• Sandra J. Lee

  176 shared

• Harry J. de Koning

  Erasmus MC

  173 shared

• Hui Huang

  First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College

  173 shared

• Nicolien T. van Ravesteyn

  Erasmus MC

  173 shared

• Mehmet Ali Ergün

  Istanbul Technical University

  172 shared

Education

• M.D., Medicine

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

• Other, Public Health

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

Awards & honors

• 2023 Advancing Women in Medicine and Science Award from UW’s…
• RSNA Gold Medal (2024)

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