Sylvia K. Plevritis PhD

Dr. Plevritis is a Professor in the Department of Radiology in the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Plevritis holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Stanford, 1992) with the concentration on MRI spectroscopic imaging of tumors. She also holds an MS in Health Services Research (Stanford, 1996), with the concentration on the evaluation of cancer screening programs on reducing cancer mortality. Dr. Plevritis is the Director of the Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Director of the Cancer Systems Biology Scholars (CSBS) Program, and the co-Section Chief of the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS).

Dr. Plevritis is a Principal Investigator of the Stanford Cancer Intervention Surveillance Network (CISNET), which develops mathematical models of cancer progression and evaluates the effectiveness of mammography and MRI in screening for breast cancer and CT in screening for lung cancer.