GE Healthcare
Booth #329
Join thought leaders and peer educators during our Lunch & Learn, where you’ll learn new approaches to personalized breast care and discover new ways to deliver an improved and more comfortable patient experience.
Meet us at:
The Mont Royal Ballroom
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Seating is limited, please arrive early to secure a seat!
Doors open at 12:15 pm
Consultant Radiologist, Department of Breast Imaging, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona - Spain
Assistant Professor of Radiology at Bonanova Institute, Barcelona - Spain
Dr. Rodrigo Alcantara is a consultant radiologist and breast specialist at Hospital del Mar in Barcelona - Spain, with a special dedication to imaging in oncology clinical trials, interventional procedures in breast imaging and the breast cancer screening program. He also practices as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Bonanova institute of health professional training and for the University of Barcelona. Dr. Alcantara is currently working on his Master’s degree in Breast Disease and Senology from the University of Barcelona, pondering the use of Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) in the breast health pathway. Dr. Alcantara holds an European Diploma in Radiology from the European Board of Radiology (EBR) and completed his Radiology Residency training at the Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona - Spain.
Dr. Georgia Giakoumis Spear is the Chief of the Department of Breast Imaging at NorthShore University Health System in the Chicagoland area and serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She is an active member of the Breast Program Leadership Committee at NorthShore and previously served as Director of the Clinical Breast MRI program. Dr. Spear is an active speaker and has several research interests, currently focusing on studying Automated Breast Ultrasound as a supplemental screening tool for the detection of breast cancer. Dr. Spear is a Board Certified Radiologist and completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency and Fellowship training in Breast Imaging at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, where she also served as Chief Resident in Radiology.
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