Heather Greenwood, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Greenwood completed a four-year Diagnostic Radiology residency at New York University Hospital in 2013, followed by a Breast Imaging fellowship at UCSF in 2014.

Expertise: Breast Imaging

Specialty: Diagnostic and screening mammography examinations, breast MRI, performing breast ultrasound examinations, image guided wire localizations prior to surgery and performing percutaneous breast biopsies

Professional Interests: Breast MRI, screening mammography, high-risk breast cancer screening, percutaneous breast biopsies, fellow/resident/medical student education, breast cancer screening prior to fertility treatment

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
• Internship: MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn IL
• Residency: NYU Hospital, New York, NY
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco – Women’s Imaging

• Alveolar soft part sarcoma of the pectoralis mimicking a breast mass: A case report.
  Human Pathology Reports 2022 Kevin L. Lu, Ryan Sieberg, Rita I. Freimanis, Heather I. Greenwood, Christopher J. Schwartz
• Case Report Alveolar soft part sarcoma of the pectoralis mimicking a breast mass: A case report
  Human Pathology Reports 2022 Kevin L. Lu Ryan Sieberg, Rita I.Freimanis, Heather I. Greenwood, Christopher J. Schwartz
• The Value of Targeted Ultrasound for the Primary Evaluation of Breast Symptoms in Pregnant Women of All Ages.
  Journal of breast imaging 2021 Holtz JN, Woodard GA, Hayward JH, Ray KM, Kannan N, Greenwood HI, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Outcomes of screening mammography performed prior to fertility treatment in women ages 40-49.
  Clinical imaging 2021 Greenwood HI, Price ER, Lee AY, Kelil T, Jones C, Le M, Jaswa EG
• Dual-energy three-compartment breast imaging for compositional biomarkers to improve detection of malignant lesions.
  Communications medicine 2021 Leong LT, Malkov S, Drukker K, Niell BL, Sadowski P, Wolfgruber T, Greenwood HI, Joe BN, Kerlikowske K, Giger ML, Shepherd JA
• Relationship between body mass index and malignancy rates of MRI-guided breast biopsies: impact of clinicodemographic factors.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2021 Tang A, Cohan CM, Hansen KS, Beattie G, Greenwood HI, Mukhtar RA
• Accuracy of breast MRI in evaluating nodal status after neoadjuvant therapy in invasive lobular carcinoma.
  NPJ breast cancer 2021 Abel MK, Greenwood H, Kelil T, Guo R, Brabham C, Hylton N, Wong J, Alvarado M, Ewing C, Esserman LJ, Boughey JC, Mukhtar RA
• Abstract PD5-01: Magnetic resonance imaging insights from an active surveillance cohort of women with DCIS.
  Cancer Research 2021 Heather Greenwood, Rita Freimanis, Case Brabham, Rita Mukhtar, Gillian Hirst, Paul Kim, April Liang, Laura Esserman, Nola Hylton, Amrita Basu
• Abstract PS1-03: Active surveillance for DCIS: Clinical outcomes at 5.6 years mean follow-up.
  Cancer Research 2021 Case Brabham, Rita Mukhtar, April Liang, Paul Kim, Gillian Hirst, Amrita Basu, Heather Greenwood, Rita Freimanis, Alexander Borowsky, Shelley Hwang, Rick Baehner, Gregor Krings, Nola Hylton, Laura …
• Post-lumpectomy breast calcifications: Can original tumor features assist in determining need for biopsy?
  Clinical imaging 2021 Greenwood HI, Kelil T, Lobach IV, Fong V, Price ER
• Commentary on "Comparison of Abbreviated Breast MRI vs Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Breast Cancer Detection Among Women With Dense Breasts Undergoing Screening".
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020 Greenwood HI, Freimanis RI
• US as the Primary Imaging Modality in the Evaluation of Palpable Breast Masses in Breastfeeding Women, Including Those of Advanced Maternal Age.
  Radiology 2020 Chung M, Hayward JH, Woodard GA, Knobel A, Greenwood HI, Ray KM, Joe BN, Lee AY
• A case of acute onset gigantomastia in a 20-year-old woman.
  Clinical imaging 2020 Vyas S, Greenwood HI, Jankowski T, Freimanis RI, Kallianos KG, Henry TS, Strachowski LM
• Abstract P6-16-06: Improved early stratification of invasive cancer risk using MRI in a ductal carcinoma in-situ short-term active surveillance cohort treated with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy.
  Cancer Research 2020 Paul Kim, Heather I. Greenwood, Rita I. Freimanis, Gillian L Hirst, Megan Fischer-Colbrie, Jessica Gibbs, Nola M Hylton, Christina Yau, Eun-Sil Shelley Hwang, Laura J. Esserman, Rita A Mukhtar
• Capsular synovial metaplasia mimicking radiographic features of implant-associated anaplastic lymphoma.
  Clinical imaging 2019 Linden O, Kelil T, Greenwood H, Lauw M, Strachowski L
• Outcomes of screening mammography in women less than 40 prior to fertility treatment: a retrospective pilot study.
  Clinical imaging 2019 Greenwood HI, Greenwood EA, Lee AY, Price ER
• Role of Breast MRI in the Evaluation and Detection of DCIS: Opportunities and Challenges.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2019 Greenwood HI, Wilmes LJ, Kelil T, Joe BN
• Deep learning networks find unique mammographic differences in previous negative mammograms between interval and screen-detected cancers: a case-case study.
  Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society 2019 Hinton B, Ma L, Mahmoudzadeh AP, Malkov S, Fan B, Greenwood H, Joe B, Lee V, Kerlikowske K, Shepherd J
• Feasibility of Magnetic Seeds for Preoperative Localization of Axillary Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer Treatment.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2019 Greenwood HI, Wong JM, Mukhtar RA, Alvarado MD, Price ER
• Derived mammographic masking measures based on simulated lesions predict the risk of interval cancer after controlling for known risk factors: a case-case analysis.
  Medical physics 2019 Hinton B, Ma L, Mahmoudzadeh AP, Malkov S, Fan B, Greenwood H, Joe B, Lee V, Strand F, Kerlikowske K, Shepherd J
• The Gambler's Fallacy in Screening Mammography.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2019 Callen AL, Lobach I, Mesina O, Marcus S, Joe BN, Sickles EA, Greenwood HI
• Combined Benefit of Quantitative Three-Compartment Breast Image Analysis and Mammography Radiomics in the Classification of Breast Masses in a Clinical Data Set.
  Radiology 2018 Drukker K, Giger ML, Joe BN, Kerlikowske K, Greenwood H, Drukteinis JS, Niell B, Fan B, Malkov S, Avila J, Kazemi L, Shepherd J
• Characterization of Metastatic Sternal Lesions on Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI in Women with Invasive Breast Cancer.
  Academic radiology 2018 Lee AY, Navarro R, Busby LP, Greenwood HI, Bucknor MD, Ray KM, Joe BN
• Abbreviated protocol breast MRI: The past, present, and future.
  Clinical imaging 2018 Greenwood HI
• Impact of Advancing Technology on Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer.
  The Surgical clinics of North America 2018 Greenwood HI, Dodelzon K, Katzen JT
• Sonographic-MRI Correlation After Percutaneous Sampling of Targeted Breast Ultrasound Lesions: Initial Experiences With Limited-Sequence Unenhanced MRI for Postprocedural Clip Localization.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2018 Lee AY, Nguyen VT, Arasu VA, Greenwood HI, Ray KM, Joe BN, Price ER
• Effect of Background Parenchymal Enhancement on Breast MR Imaging Interpretive Performance in Community-based Practices.
  Radiology 2017 Ray KM, Kerlikowske K, Lobach IV, Hofmann MB, Greenwood HI, Arasu VA, Hylton NM, Joe BN
• Clustered Microcysts on Breast Ultrasound: What Is an Appropriate Management Recommendation?
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2017 Greenwood HI, Lee AY, Lobach IV, Carpentier BM, Freimanis RI, Strachowski LM
• Clinical Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Technique, Indications, and Future Applications.
  Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR 2017 Greenwood HI, Freimanis RI, Carpentier BM, Joe BN
• Outcomes of ultrasound-guided axillary lymph node sampling in the absence of primary breast cancer.
  Clinical imaging 2017 Garcia-Reyes K, Greenwood HI, Price ER
• In Situ Disease on Breast MRI.
  Breast Oncology: Techniques, Indications, and Interpretation 2017 Heather I. Greenwood, Bonnie N. Joe
• Achieving Consistent, Homgeneous, Dark Fat Saturation on Bilateral Breast MRI at 3.0 Tesla in the Clinical Setting
  OMICS Journal of Radiology 2016 Greenwood HI, Arasu VA, Desphande VS, Wisner DJ, Laub GA, Hylton NM, Joe BN
• Achieving Consistent, Homogeneous, Dark Fat Suppression on Bilateral Breast MRI at 3.0 Tesla in the Clinical Setting.
  OMICS Journal of Radiology 2016 Heather I Greenwood, Vignesh A Arasu
• Outcome of high-risk lesions at MRI-guided 9-gauge vacuum- assisted breast biopsy.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2014 Heller SL, Elias K, Gupta A, Greenwood HI, Mercado CL, Moy L
• Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breasts: review of MR imaging features.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2013 Greenwood HI, Heller SL, Kim S, Sigmund EE, Shaylor SD, Moy L
• Clinical significance of lung nodules reported on abdominal CT.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2012 Alpert JB, Fantauzzi JP, Melamud K, Greenwood H, Naidich DP, Ko JP