Meet Dr. Regina Hooley
June 28, 2021Meet Dr. Regina Hooley
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Dr. Regina Hooley sees patients as part of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and discusses why she chose radiology as her specialty and why breast imaging is so important.
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- 00:00My name is Doctor Regina Hooley.
- 00:03I'm a radiologist and I'm professor
- 00:05and vice chair for clinical affairs
- 00:07and the Department of Radiology
- 00:09and Biomedical Imaging at Yale.
- 00:11I oversee radiology operations and
- 00:13in addition to this I'm also the
- 00:16division Chief for breast imaging.
- 00:18The patients that I see are
- 00:20primarily women who are undergoing
- 00:22screening for breast cancer.
- 00:24I also see women who have breast symptoms,
- 00:27including those women who may be
- 00:29newly diagnosed with breast cancer.
- 00:31I chose radiology as a specialty because
- 00:34radiologists must learn about all kinds
- 00:36of diseases in all parts of the body,
- 00:39which I found really interesting.
- 00:41Most radiologists, however,
- 00:42eventually choose to focus on
- 00:44one or two areas because there
- 00:46is so much to learn and know.
- 00:49And I chose breast imaging because
- 00:51breast cancer is very interesting.
- 00:53It's a very common and significant disease.
- 00:56I enjoy helping women and I also enjoy
- 00:58working with women for those patients
- 01:01who are diagnosed with breast cancer,
- 01:03it's important to know that these days
- 01:06breast cancer is a very well treated disease,
- 01:09and for the most part,
- 01:11women do very,
- 01:12very well,
- 01:13particularly those women whose cancers
- 01:15are found on screening mammography.
- 01:17My research is primarily focused
- 01:20on screening.
- 01:21I've done most of my research on
- 01:24supplemental screening ultrasound
- 01:26and women with dense breasts.
- 01:28I've also done research on tomosynthesis,
- 01:31an 3D mammography.
- 01:32We operate as a team.
- 01:35Certainly, radiology is a team specialty.
- 01:38We have a great group of breast imagers.
- 01:42We all work together, we share our patients.
- 01:46We have similar.
- 01:47Styles in diagnosis and work
- 01:49up so it's a great team.
- 01:52We also work very closely with
- 01:53our breast surgeons and our breast
- 01:55oncologist and radiation oncologist to
- 01:57optimize treatment for our patients
- 01:59who are diagnosed with breast cancer.