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    Mary P. Harty, MD

    Medical Imaging
    Researcher Profile

    Get to Know Me

    Both of my parents were in the medical field and strongly influenced the direction of my career. I became a physical therapist, which I enjoyed immensely, but I thought I could make a different contribution to patient care by becoming a physician. In radiology, we are part of the medical team that helps diagnose or exclude an illness and we help to direct the course of our patient’s treatment.

    Why I Treat Children

    Working with children is an amazing experience. Kids are so resilient and bounce back from all types of difficult situations. They each have such a unique perspective and we try our best to tailor our interactive imaging procedures to the child. Sometimes this involves providing anatomy lessons to teen patients, other times it involves just “getting it over with.” We aim to make our imaging procedures as interesting and as comfortable as possible.

    What I'm Passionate About

    My areas of interest include: Pediatric Body Imaging  Fetal Imaging Child Abuse

    How I Try to Make A Difference

    I try to provide the most accurate information based on our imaging studies to the patient’s medical team so that the child can be treated as quickly as possible. I am fortunate to work with an incredible group of medical practitioners at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children who share my passion to provide the highest quality medical care to all children. 

    Education & Training

    Fellowship

    • Pediatric Radiology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1992

    Internship

    • Flexible - Chestnut Hill Hospital, 1986

    Residency

    • Diagnostic Radiology - SUNY Health Science Center At Syracuse, 1990

    Medical/Dental School

    • M.D. - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1985

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Radiology/Pediatric Radiology
    • American Board of Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology

    • Harty, M. P., Gould, S. W., & Harcke, H. T. (2021). Navigating the perils and pitfalls of pediatric forensic postmortem imaging in the United States. Pediatric Radiology, 51(6), 1051-1060. doi:10.1007/s00247-020-04833-8

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    • Milkovich, N. M., Milkovich, S. M., Harty, M. P., Kecskemethy, H. H., Briddell, J. W., Levi, J. R., & Reilly, J. S. (2019). Computerized Tomography Analysis of Young Children for Prevention of Aspiration Injuries. Laryngoscope, 129(6), 1468-1476. doi:10.1002/lary.27354

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    • Gould, S. W., Harty, M. P., Givler, N. E., Christensen, T. E., Curtin, R. N., & Harcke, H. T. (2019). Pediatric postmortem computed tomography: initial experience at a children's hospital in the United States. Pediatric Radiology, 49(9), 1113-1129. doi:10.1007/s00247-019-04433-1

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    • Grissom, L. E., Harty, M. P., Guo, G. W., & Kecskemethy, H. H. (2018). Maturation of pelvic ossification centers on computed tomography in normal children. Pediatric Radiology, 48(13), 1902-1914. doi:10.1007/s00247-018-4233-6

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    • Harty, M. P., Harcke, H. T., Gould, S. W., & Sukula-Perlman, A. (2018). Pulmonary embolus as cause of death in an adolescent: demonstration on postmortem CT. Pediatric Radiology, 48(5), 745-748. doi:10.1007/s00247-017-4041-4

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    • Hurd, L. M., Thacker, M. M., Okenfuss, E., Duker, A. L., Lou, Y., Harty, M. P., & Bober, M. B. (2017). Aneurysmal bone cysts and pathologic fracture associated with supernumerary ring chromosome 6 in two unrelated patients. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 173(12), 3205-3210. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.38498

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    • Gould, S. W., Harty, M. P., Givler, N., Christensen, T., & Harcke, H. T. (2017). Pediatric Postmortem CT: Initial Experience at a Tertiary Care Children's Hospital. Current Radiology Reports, 5(11). doi:10.1007/s40134-017-0250-8

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