Dr. Amy Patel is a Breast Radiologist, Medical Director of The Breast Care Center at Liberty Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Patel is a graduate of the combined BA/MD accelerated program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She completed residency at the University of Kansas-Wichita where she served as the first female chief resident in an all-male program. She completed Breast Imaging Fellowship at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Washington University in Saint Louis.

Dr. Patel established the American College of Radiology (ACR) Resident and Fellow Section Women and Diversity Advisory Group when she was in training and now serves on the ACR Commission for Women and Diversity. She also serves as Vice President on the American Association for Women in Radiology. She is Associate Editor for Digital Media for the Journal of the American College of Radiology. She is Immediate Past Chair of the ACR Young and Early Career Professional Section, current Co-Chair of the Society of Breast Imaging Young Professionals Section, and a member of the RADPAC Board. Dr. Patel is a former ACR Rutherford Lavanty Fellow in Government Relations and the first female and youngest radiologist recipient of the ACR Howard Fleishon MD Advocate of the Year Award. She is the 2021 recipient of the Kansas City Medical Society's Patient and Community Advocate Award due to her advocacy work in breast radiology. 

Dr. Barbara Pawley is an Emergency Radiologist, Associate Professor of Radiology and Emergency Radiology Fellowship Director at the University of Kentucky. She attended medical school at the University of Louisville College of Medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Louisville hospital.  She completed fellowship at the University of Louisville Hospital and Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville. She has raised 6 successful children and is the current President of the American Association of Women in Radiology.  

Dr. Faezeh Sodagari is a PGY-5/R4 diagnostic radiology resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, and will continue her training in breast imaging next year at MGH. She was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, where she received medical training. After moving to the United States in 2015 and before her radiology residency, she finished a two-year radiology research fellowship at Northwestern University on cancer imaging and CT optimization techniques, followed by a one-year general surgery internship at Montefiore in the Bronx, NY. She is passionate about health services research and improving patient access to imaging. She enjoys organized medicine and has been an active member of several radiology organizations.

Dr. Sue Yom is Vice Chair and Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Oncology. She is Chair of the Head and Neck Cancer Committee at NRG Oncology. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. She attended medical school at The University of Pennsylvania. She completed residency in radiation oncology at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Karen Xie is an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and the Program Director of Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She attended medical school at Midwestern University. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Xie completed both radiology residency training and body imaging fellowship with an emphasis in MRI. Dr. Xie is the faculty advisor of the medical student-run Diversity in Radiology Committee and Radiology Interest Group at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She spearheaded the integration of radiology curriculum into preclinical and clinical medical education for the University of Illinois College of Medicine system.

 Dr. Vaz Zavaletta
Vaz Zavaletta is assistant professor of radiology and pediatric interventional radiologist at University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Vaz is currently the chair of the Gender Diversity Workgroup, a workgroup of the ACR’s Commission for Women and Diversity that focuses on advocacy for transgender and gender expansive patients as well as for members of our radiology workforce.   

Vaz earned their medical degree at University of Minnesota. They completed surgical internship at Mayo Clinic, diagnostic radiology residency at University of Wisconsin and adult and pediatric Interventional radiology fellowships at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Prior to embarking on medical training, Vaz completed their PhD at Mayo Clinic where their research focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect, characterize and quantify radiologic morphology within high resolution CT images of lungs. This work went from bench to bedside with a patent and laid the groundwork for now marketed AI software to create detailed quantitative maps of interstitial lung disease from chest CTs.