Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, UCSF

Radiology

Edward Sickles practices Radiology. He attended Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University has a rank of 18 in research and a 49 in primary care Doctor Edward A. Sickles, MD is also a published MD. He has 71 publication published. The most recent publication is: The National Mammography Database: Preliminary Data.

Publications

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• Patient and Radiologist Characteristics Associated With Accuracy of Two Types of Diagnostic Mammograms.
• The Potential Impact of Risk-Based Screening Mammography in Women 40-49 Years Old.
• Criteria for identifying radiologists with acceptable screening mammography interpretive performance on basis of multiple performance measures.
• The developing asymmetry: revisiting a perceptual and diagnostic challenge.
• The evolution of breast imaging: past to present.
• Effect of Radiologists' Diagnostic Work-up Volume on Interpretive Performance.
• Educational interventions to improve screening mammography interpretation: a randomized controlled trial.
• Feasibility and acceptability of conducting a randomized clinical trial designed to improve interpretation of screening mammography.
• The California Breast Density Information Group: A Collaborative Response to the Issues of Breast Density, Breast Cancer Risk, and Breast Density Notification Legislat...
• Density and breast cancer risk.
• Mammographic surveillance after breast conservation therapy.
• Diagnostic Mammography: Identifying Minimally Acceptable Interpretive Performance Criteria.
• The ACR/Society of Breast Imaging Resident and Fellowship Training Curriculum for Breast Imaging, Updated.
• Stereoscopic digital mammography: improved specificity and reduced rate of recall in a prospective clinical trial.
• Radiologist agreement for mammographic recall by case difficulty and finding type.
• Benefit of Semiannual Ipsilateral Mammographic Surveillance Following Breast Conservation Therapy.
• Mammographic interpretive volume and diagnostic mammogram interpretation performance in community practice.
• Using a tailored web-based intervention to set goals to reduce unnecessary recall.
• Influence of annual interpretive volume on screening mammography performance in the United States.
• Limitations of minimally acceptable interpretive performance criteria for screening mammography.
• Feasibility and satisfaction with a tailored web-based audit intervention for recalibrating radiologists' thresholds for conducting additional work-up.
• Accuracy and outcomes of screening mammography in women with a personal history of early-stage breast cancer.
• Radiologists' perceptions of computer aided detection versus double reading for mammography interpretation.
• The use of breast imaging to screen women at high risk for cancer.
• Radiologists' attitudes and use of mammography audit reports.
• Identifying minimally acceptable interpretive performance criteria for screening mammography.
• Decreased accuracy in interpretation of community-based screening mammography for women with multiple clinical risk factors.
• Recommendation for short-interval follow-up examinations after a probably benign assessment: is clinical practice consistent with BI-RADS guidance?
• Solitary dilated duct identified at mammography: outcomes analysis.
• The ACR BI-RADS experience: learning from history.
• Variability in interpretive performance at screening mammography and radiologists' characteristics associated with accuracy.
• When radiologists perform best: the learning curve in screening mammogram interpretation.
• Variability of interpretive accuracy among diagnostic mammography facilities.
• Positive predictive value of specific mammographic findings according to reader and patient variables.
• Mammography facility characteristics associated with interpretive accuracy of screening mammography.
• Accuracy of short-interval follow-up mammograms by patient and radiologist characteristics.
• Auditing your breast imaging practice: an evidence-based approach.
• The probably benign assessment.
• The spectrum of breast asymmetries: imaging features, work-up, management.
• Probably benign breast masses at US: is follow-up an acceptable alternative to biopsy?
• Influence of computer-aided detection on performance of screening mammography.
• Developing asymmetry identified on mammography: correlation with imaging outcome and pathologic findings.
• Reactions to uncertainty and the accuracy of diagnostic mammography.
• Wolfe mammographic parenchymal patterns and breast cancer risk.
• American College Of Radiology/Society of Breast Imaging curriculum for resident and fellow education in breast imaging.
• Performance benchmarks for screening mammography.
• Reality check: perceived versus actual performance of community mammographers.
• The place of medical image perception in 21st-century health care.
• Correlation of radiologist rank as a measure of skill in screening and diagnostic interpretation of mammograms.
• Performance benchmarks for diagnostic mammography.
• Physician predictors of mammographic accuracy.
• Breast cancer yield for screening mammographic examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-up.
• Preoperative embolization of vascular phyllodes tumor of the breast.
• Mammography with breast cushions.
• Follow-up of palpable circumscribed noncalcified solid breast masses at mammography and US: can biopsy be averted?
• Re: Changes in breast cancer detection and mammography recall rates after the introduction of a computer-aided detection system.
• Computer-aided detection output on 172 subtle findings on normal mammograms previously obtained in women with breast cancer detected at follow-up screening mammography.
• A probabilistic expert system that provides automated mammographic-histologic correlation: initial experience.
• Evaluation of proscriptive health care policy implementation in screening mammography.
• Comparison of screening mammography in the United States and the United kingdom.
• Short-interval follow-up mammography: are we doing the right thing?
• Association of volume and volume-independent factors with accuracy in screening mammogram interpretation.
• Analysis of 172 subtle findings on prior normal mammograms in women with breast cancer detected at follow-up screening.
• Differential value of comparison with previous examinations in diagnostic versus screening mammography.
• Performance parameters for screening and diagnostic mammography: specialist and general radiologists.
• Factors affecting radiologist inconsistency in screening mammography.
• Interpreting data from audits when screening and diagnostic mammography outcomes are combined.
• Use of the American College of Radiology BI-RADS to report on the mammographic evaluation of women with signs and symptoms of breast disease.
• Concordance of breast imaging reporting and data system assessments and management recommendations in screening mammography.
• The National Mammography Database: Preliminary Data.

Schools

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• Joan Sanford I Weill Medical College Of Cornell University

Doctors Specialties

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• Diagnostic Radiology
• Internal Medicine
• Radiology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• UCSF
• New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
• Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

Hospital

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• San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
• UCSF Medical Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1396783551
Last Name Of The Provider	SICKLES
First Name Of The Provider	EDWARD
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