“Revealing the Unseen: Leveraging Opportunistic Imaging for Body Composition and Bone Analysis”
Miriam A. Bredella, MD, MBA
7:15 – 7:45 a.m.
Monday, October 28, 2024
In Moss Auditorium and Via WebEx
An in-person breakfast will be provided beginning at 7 a.m.
About the Lecturer — Miriam Bredella, MD, MBA
Dr. Bredella is Associate Dean for Translational Science and Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at NYU Langone Health. She is also a musculoskeletal radiologist and professor of radiology and vice chair for strategy in the Department of Radiology at NYU. She holds an MBA from MIT/Sloan School of Management.
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Bredella was professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a radiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where she served as director of the MGH-wide Center for Faculty Development overseeing the Offices for Women’s Careers, Clinical Careers, and Research Careers, the Offices for Well-Being and Senior Faculty Affairs, which she established. She established mentoring programs and hospital-wide and nation-wide initiatives to support early career faculty, women faculty and trainees, which received the Innovative Initiatives Award from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council, the AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award, the Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School and she was awarded the Shirley Driscoll Dean’s Leadership Award for the Enhancement of Women’s Careers from Harvard Medical School. She has led national NIH-funded working groups on faculty development and well-being.
Dr. Bredella is an NIH-funded physician scientist focusing on novel functional imaging techniques to determine the effects of body composition and different fat depots on bone and cardiometabolic risk. She is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and multiple textbooks. She is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and a Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence of the National Academy of Medicine. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research and the Presidents Medal of the International Skeletal Society.
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