Mark J. Kransdorf MD

Kransdorf received his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his internship and residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and an Orthopedic Radiologic Pathology Fellowship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He concluded his Army service as the Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiologic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C, in April 1993. Following his retirement from the Army, he entered private practice, subsequently joining the Mayo Clinic in 1999.

Doctor Kransdorf is a past President of the Society of Skeletal Radiology; the organization representing musculoskeletal radiology in North America. He is currently an Editor of Skeletal Radiology, the Journal of the International Skeletal Society and the Official Journal of the Society of Skeletal Radiology. Additionally, he was a Visiting Professor in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, for more than 25 years.

He is recognized as an accomplished musculoskeletal radiologist with expertise in radiologic pathology and is the author of four textbooks, more than twenty-five book chapters and over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has extensively lectured both nationally and internationally and was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology in 2007. He is the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Mayo Clinician Award.