Jessica Hayward, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Hayward then completed a Diagnostic Radiology residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York followed by a Women’s Imaging fellowship at UCSF. In August 2014, Dr. Hayward accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology in Women’s Imaging at San Francisco General Hospital.

Dr. Hayward strives to better the health of women through her clinical work and research in the breast imaging and ultrasound sections at San Francisco General Hospital. She is an active member of the Society of Breast Imaging, Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, the American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Radiological Society of North America.

Expertise: Breast Imaging

Specialty: Breast imaging and intervention, obstetrical and gynecologic ultrasound

Professional Interests: Breast cancer, screening and diagnostic mammography, breast ultrasound and MRI, obstetrics and gynecology imaging

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Dartmouth School of Medicine, Hanover, NH
• Internship: Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY- Internal Medicine
• Residency: Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY- Diagnostic Radiology
• Residency: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY- Radiology resident
• Residency: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY- Radiology resident
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco- Women’s Imaging

• Deep Learning to Simulate Contrast-enhanced Breast MRI of Invasive Breast Cancer.
  Radiology 2022 Chung M, Calabrese E, Mongan J, Ray KM, Hayward JH, Kelil T, Sieberg R, Hylton N, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Updates in Transgender Breast Imaging.
  Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR 2022 Hayward JH
• 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
• Utility and Outcomes of Preoperative Screening Breast MRI for Planned Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in High-Risk Patients.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2021 Taliaferro AS, Price ER, Hayward JH, Wong JM, Balassanian R, Fay JS, Freimanis RI, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Trends in Breast Cancer Screening in a Safety-Net Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JAMA network open 2021 Velazquez AI, Hayward JH, Gregory B, Dixit N
• Frequency and Outcomes of New Suspicious Lesions on Breast MRI in the Setting of Neoadjuvant Therapy.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2021 Eckstein DA, Price ER, Hayward JH, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Sentinel Node Tracer Injection: Effects on Breast MRI Quality.
  Journal of breast imaging 2020 Chapman MC, Lee AY, Hayward JH, Joe BN, Price ER
• 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
• Primum non nocere: Utility and outcomes of pediatric breast ultrasound.
  Clinical imaging 2020 Wright AG, Hayward JH, Price ER, Ray KM, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Performance of screening MRI in high risk patients at initial versus subsequent screen.
  Clinical imaging 2020 Hayward JH, Ray KM, Price ER, Sickles EA, Conlon K, Lobach I, Joe BN, Lee AY
• The Role of Breast MRI in Detecting Asymptomatic Recurrence After Therapeutic Mastectomy.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020 Chapman MC, Hayward JH, Woodard GA, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Utility of Diagnostic Mammography as the Primary Imaging Modality for Palpable Lumps in Women With Almost Entirely Fatty Breasts.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020 Linden OE, Hayward JH, Price ER, Kelil T, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Utilization of Patient Navigators in Breast Imaging Facilities Across the United States: A Survey of Breast Imaging Radiologists.
  Journal of breast imaging 2020 Lee AY, Plecha D, Woodard GA, Price ER, Hayward JH, Mark S, Joe BN
• Complete Breast MRI Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Prediction of Pathologic Complete Response.
  Journal of breast imaging 2019 Chen CA, Hayward JH, Woodard GA, Ray KM, Starr CJ, Hylton NM, Joe BN, Lee AY
• More Lives Risked with Risk-based versus Age-based Breast Cancer Screening.
  Radiology 2019 Joe BN, Hayward JH
• Utility and Outcomes of Imaging Evaluation for Palpable Lumps in the Postmastectomy Patient.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2019 Dashevsky BZ, Hayward JH, Woodard GA, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Microcalcifications Detected at Screening Mammography: Synthetic Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis versus Digital Mammography.
  Radiology 2018 Lai YC, Ray KM, Lee AY, Hayward JH, Freimanis RI, Lobach IV, Joe BN
• Paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome as a presentation of underlying breast malignancy.
  The breast journal 2018 Laguna B, Hayward JH, Lee AY, Joe BN, Ray KM
• Tuberculosis mastitis presenting as bilateral breast masses.
  Clinical imaging 2018 Qiao Y, Hayward JH, Balassanian R, Ray KM, Joe BN, Lee AY
• Role of MR Imaging for the Locoregional Staging of Breast Cancer.
  Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America 2018 Ray KM, Hayward JH, Joe BN
• A Case of Ruptured Interstitial Ectopic Pregnancy: Ultrasonographic Appearance With Gross Pathology Correlate.
  Ultrasound quarterly 2017 Kerridge WD, Carpentier B, Hayward JH, Vargas JE
• Enhancing Your Acoustics: Ultrasound Image Optimization of Breast Lesions.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2017 Carpentier B, Hayward J, Strachowski L
• Improving Screening Mammography Outcomes Through Comparison With Multiple Prior Mammograms.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2016 Hayward JH, Ray KM, Wisner DJ, Kornak J, Lin W, Joe BN, Sickles EA
• Follow-up outcomes after benign concordant MRI-guided breast biopsy.
  Clinical imaging 2016 Hayward JH, Ray KM, Wisner DJ, Joe BN
• Magnetic resonance enterography and wireless capsule endoscopy in the evaluation of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
  Clinical imaging 2012 Kovanlikaya A, Watson E, Hayward J, Beneck D, Sockolow R, Solomon A, Christos P, Brill PW
• Student interviews for radiology residency: what influences how students rank programs?
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2010 Lewis P, Hayward J, Chertoff J