Podcast: Mammography Saves Lives

Rachel Brem

Dr. Rachel Brem discusses how a mammogram can save a life and how the technology has evolved.

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Featured Speaker:

Rachel Brem, MD, is board-certified in Diagnostic Radiology. She is a professor of radiology and the vice chair of radiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also the director of Breast Imaging and Intervention. Dr. Brem arrived at the George Washington University in 2000 from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, where she served as director of Breast Imaging.

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