Northeast Breast Imaging Conference

Dr. Gizienski is the director of breast imaging of Magee Women's Hospital of Cranberry, PA. Cranberry is located north of the city of Pittsburgh. She has previously been a speaker on all breast imaging modalities including stereotactic biopsies, ultrasound guided biopsies, MRI biopsies, breast ultrasound, MRI and tomosynthesis. She has spoken throughout the United States and also other countries such as Italy, Japan and Korea. Dr. Gizienski received her medical degree from Pennsylvania State University and completed her residency and breast imaging fellowship at the University of Virginia. She is interested in Automated Breast Ultrasound for dense breast tissue and extent of disease in newly diagnosed patients, and all types of breast biopsies.

JoAnn Pushkin, Executive Director of DenseBreast-info.org, is a patient/advocate, author and speaker. She learned of her own breast density's masking effect on her mammogram after finding a palpable lump which went undetected by mammography several years in a row. Ms. Pushkin's initiative and advocacy served as inspiration for New York State's Breast Density Inform bill, signed into law in July 2012. On the federal level, Ms. Pushkin led the efforts for both the introduction of the Federal Breast Density and Mammography Reporting Act, as well as the FDA’s Mammography Quality Standards Act regulatory amendment consideration.

Tammy Coryell, RT(R)(M) is currently a Women’s Health Specialist with Hologic where she has worked for 15 years.  Prior to that she was an independent mammography consultant and also worked with BioLucent, the MammoPad company prior to the acquisition by Hologic.  Tammy worked as a state mammography inspector for the Department of Health and Senior Services in Missouri and was the imaging supervisor of a large breast center in Springfield MO.  She has been a mammographer since 1985.  Tammy created a positioning video with a grant from Hologic and donated to the ASRT called “Finding a New Groove” which won a Telly Award. 

Risk Assessment Clinical Program Manager
Volpara Health

Leigh is versed in clinical operations and regulations developed over the span of more than twenty years in the Medical Imaging clinical setting. Accomplished in creating a Personalized Medicine program in a community hospital type setting by focusing on systematic screening processes and applying guide-line based medicine to patients at high risk for hereditary cancers, lung cancer and cardiac events resulting in prevention and early detection.