Melissa L. Rosado-de-christenson MD, FACR

Melissa L. Rosado de Christenson retired from active duty in the United States Air Force as a Colonel in 2001 after over 25 years of service. She was a member of the charter class of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, where she received her M.D. degree and was commissioned as a Captain in the United States Air Force in 1980. She completed her residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC and became a diplomat of the American Board of Radiology in 1984. Her first assignment as a radiologist was at the 13th Air Force Medical Center, Clark Air Base, Republic of the Philippines, where she was Consultant in Radiology to the Pacific Air Force Surgeon General. Dr. Rosado de Christenson was assigned to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in September 1988 as Chief of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Radiology and became Chairman and Registrar of the Department of Radiologic Pathology in 1995. She is the first woman and the first Air Force officer ever to serve in this capacity since the establishment of the department in 1947. She served in the faculty of the Department of Radiologic Pathology at the AFIP for more than thirteen years and trained more than 20,000 radiologists, residents, and other physicians who attended AFIP courses. After serving as a Clinical Professor of Radiology at the Ohio State University for over 4 years, she joined the Department of Radiology of the Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City as Section Chief of Thoracic Radiology and is Professor of Radiology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.