Dr. Macura's clinical expertise and current clinical research interests are in genitourinary MR imaging.

She received an RSNA Seed Grant for her work on MRI in female urinary incontinence and the Young Investigator Award from the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance.
She also received the 2006 ARRS Phillips Scholarship to pursue translational research in prostate cancer.

Dr. Macura leads the Imaging Core of the JHU Institute for Clinical and Translational Research funded through the NIH-CTSA initiative.

Dr. Macura was voted the top 5th women's imaging specialist in the country in a national survey of the readership of Medical Imaging Magazine and received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from the radiology residents at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Macura serves on several committees of national radiology organizations and is a reviewer for Radiology, Radiographics, AJR and the Journal of Urology.