Harold F. Bennett, MD, PhD, FACR

Expert Publications

• Interobserver variability in determining enhancement of renal masses on helical CT.
• Renal cysts: is attenuation artifactually increased on contrast-enhanced CT images?
• Considerations in the choice of contrast media for MR imaging.
• Anatomy of the retroperitoneum: observations of the distribution of pathologic fluid collections.
• MR imaging of renal function.

Media Releases

Get to know Radiologist Dr. Harold F. Bennett, who serves patients in Madison, Wisconsin. 

Dr. Bennett is a board-certified radiologist whose areas of expertise include abdominal imaging, genitourinary imaging, gastrointestinal imaging, ultrasound, CT, and MRI. He can be found on staff at Madison Radiologists, S.C. in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison Radiologists, S.C. is a medical group that consists of 35 radiologists serving in 12 hospitals and 32 clinics. Their mission is to provide the highest quality radiologic care and services to the patients, communities, and institutions that they serve. 

In his professional experience, Dr. Bennett serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He is also a Scientific Member of the Dean Foundation and a Radiology Liaison of the Wildwood Clinic in Madison. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, Missouri from 1994 until 1998.

His medical career began in 1988 when he earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He then went on to complete his internship at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, followed by his residency in radiology at the University of California-San Francisco. He completed his fellowship in abdominal imaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology-Washington University. He also holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988.

In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, the doctor is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Wisconsin Medical Society, and the Dane County Medical Society.

Furthermore, he is board-certified in diagnostic radiology by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). The ABR is a non-profit physician-led organization that oversees the certification and ongoing professional development of specialists in diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and medical physics. 

The author of 18 published scientific articles and 5 book chapters, Dr. Bennett has held 30 presentations at scientific meetings in the area of radiology. He has also won several awards throughout his line of work, including the Hounsfield Award by the Society of Computed Body Tomography, the Editor’s Award for Distinction in Reviewing, and the Resident Teaching Award by the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, among others. 

Radiology is a medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose and treat diseases within the human body. Radiologists are medical doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging procedures, such as exams and tests, X-rays, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, mammography, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound.

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