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I am Dr. Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, and I am a fellowship-trained breast radiologist here at UAMS, and I am the director of the UAMS Breast Center.
I was really, really inspired to do breast radiology after my first week on the rotation. It’s the right mix of technology and image interpretation with patient care. I like to read the mammograms and the breast MRIs and the ultrasound, but I also enjoy hugging patients and seeing them. I feel the real impact of doing that, and so it’s very fulfilling for me.
Breast health symptoms that a woman should be aware of—not only should they be aware of if they feel a palpable mass or if their doctor feels a palpable mass or lump, but if they have new skin changes that they’ve never experienced before, if they have bloody or clear nipple discharge, if they have pain localized by one finger—those are additional things that we want to be attentive to, and we want to do additional evaluation with not just the mammogram, but an ultrasound.
So it’s important if you’re having those symptoms that you communicate them to your doctor, you communicate them to the breast center when you arrive, so that the radiologist and the technologist can make sure that we have a personalized regimen that’s just right for you—to optimize our ability to find anything abnormal.
