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 Karen D. Godette, M.D.
Chief of Service, Crawford Long Hospital
Residency Program Director
Assistant Professor

Education and Degrees

  • M.D., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1988
  • M.S., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1982
  • B.S., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1979

Certification

  • American Board of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, 1995

Training

  • Residency in Radiation Oncology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, 1989-92
  • Internship in Transitional Medicine, Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1988-9

Special Interests

  • Malignancies of the breast
  • Gynecologic malignancies

Committee Memberships

  • National Medical Association, Radiology Section, Vice Chairman, 2003-4
  • National Medical Association, Radiology Executive Committee, Secretary, 2002-3
  • National Medical Association, Radiology Executive Committee, Physician Member at Large, 2001
  • American Board of Radiology, Task Force for New Item Development, 2001

Selected Recent Publications
  • Halkos M, Godette K, Lawrence C, Miller JI. High dose rate brachytherapy in the management of lung transplant airway stenosis.  Annals of Thoracic Surgery 76(2): 381-4; 2003.
  • Herron DE, Godette KD, Wynn R, Arterberry E, Streeter O, Roach M, Simpson JR, Blough M, Thomas CR.  Radiation medicine innovations for the new millennium.  Journal of the National Medical Association 95(1): 55-63; 2003.
  • Morris CD, Budde JM, Godette KD, Kerwin TL, Miller JI. Palliative management of malignant airway obstruction.  Annals of Thoracic Surgery 74(6): 1928-32; 2002.
  • Godette KD, Thomas C. Clarification on the potential of subcutaneous ethyol as a radioprotective agent. Journal of Clinical Oncology 19(5): 1582-3; 2001.