Michael A. Bruno

Michael A. Bruno, MS, MD, is Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine and Director of Quality Management Services at Penn State University College of Medicine and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where in 2001 he initiated and served as the first program director of the Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship training program. Prior to that, Dr. Bruno was Assistant Professor of Radiology and Clinical Director of Emergency Radiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he first developed his research interest in the application of Doppler ultrasonography for assessment of rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases. In 1998, he initiated the MSK Radiology fellowship training program at Vanderbilt and served as its program director until relocating to Hershey Medical Center in 1999. Dr. Bruno specializes in musculoskeletal imaging and nuclear medicine.
Dr. Bruno’s research efforts over the past decade have been primarily focused on functional imaging, emphasizing quantified power Doppler ultrasonography. Dr. Bruno’s arthritis imaging research has been supported by private foundations including a 1998 seed grant from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is a frequent invited lecturer and keynote speaker on arthritis imaging and other musculoskeletal and practice quality improvement topics at national and international scientific meetings. He has written several scientific papers on these topics and serves as a reviewer for multiple medical and scientific journals. Dr. Bruno has also served on the editorial advisory panel for the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) and as a medical editor for the e-medicine online radiology textbook. He is a member of The RSNA Policy & Practice Committee, the “Examination of the Future” Development Committee for Musculoskeletal Radiology, the Research Committee of the Society of Skeletal Radiology and the RSNA’s Roster of Distinguished Scientific Advisors. He lives in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.