Curriculum vitae

Lectures & publications

Three decades of invited lectures and peer-reviewed publications, spanning San Francisco to Beijing, Brussels, Trieste, and Ankara.

Select invited lectures

  1. New Ultrasound Techniques in Breast Diseases — Regional Cancer Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 22 November 1980
  2. Automated Breast Ultrasonography — A.C.O.G., 28 April 1982
  3. Experience in Establishing and Running a Multimodality Breast Diagnostic Center — Society for the Study of Breast Disease, San Francisco, CA, 3–4 November 1984
  4. Cyclical Breast Changes Evaluated Using a Tomographic Ultrasound Scanner — International College of Radiology, Brussels, Belgium, June 1991
  5. Electrical Sterilization of Human Mammary Tumors in BALB/c Nude Mice — Biological Electrical Circuits Group, Beijing, China, October 1992
  6. Breast Cancer — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999. Keynote speaker plus five lectures on various breast imaging topics.
  7. Breast Newest Information — Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001
  8. How to Establish a Mammography Quality Assurance Program and MQSA Inspections: How to Perform One — Turkish Radiology Society, training program for radiologists to implement the MQSA program, Ankara, Turkey, 30 September–1 October 2007
  9. Breast Cancer: Status Quo and Entrepreneurial Solutions — Webinar, worldwide, originating Palo Alto, 7 April 2011
  10. Global Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Detection Methods, and Assuring Quality: Audit and Accreditation — ACR as Example — Advanced Course on Mammography, ICTP–IAEA (International Center for Theoretical Physics–International Atomic Energy Agency), Trieste, Italy, 3–7 October 2011
  11. Communication Challenges: Patients and Healthcare Providers — Cancer Prevention Institute of California, San Francisco, 3 March 2012
  12. Program Chair and lecturer, biennial workshops, Ormylia, Greece, 2001–2013

Select publications

  1. “Breast Ultrasonography: When Should the Physician Choose It?” The Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 27 (11), 675–678, 1982
  2. “The Technologist as a Teacher” RT Image, 9 (22), 18–20, 1996
  3. “Evidence Is In: Begin Mammography at 40” Radiologic Technology, 68 (3), 239–240, 1997
  4. “Words to Live By” RT Image, 10 (2), 8–10, 1997
  5. “Accurate Language Speaks for Itself” RT Image, 10 (21), 31–32, 1997
  6. “Adherence to Mammographic Screening in a Centralized Health Program in South Brazil: Preliminary Results” Cancer Res (2009) 69 (2 Supplement) 5092. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.SABCS-5092
  7. “A Model to Optimize Public Health Care and Downstage Breast Cancer in Limited-Resource Populations in Southern Brazil” DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-83 — biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/83