Constance "Connie" Lehman, M.D., Ph.D.


Physician Investigator (Cl)
Radiology, Mass General Research Institute
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Radiologist
Breast Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
M.D.; Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine 1990
artificial intelligence; breast cancer; breast cancer screening; breast imaging; breast mri; breast neoplasms; machine learning; magnetic resonance imaging; mammography; ultrasonography mammary

Constance “Connie” Lehman, MD, PhD is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and the Co-Director of the Breast Imaging Research Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Lehman received her undergraduate education at Duke University and her MD and PhD at Yale University. Dr. Lehman has served on a number of key national committees including the National Cancer Institute’s Breast Cancer Steering Committee and the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Committee on Breast Imaging for Appropriateness Criteria and Guidelines, and the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. Dr. Lehman has co-authored breast cancer screening recommendations by the American Cancer Society, the ACR, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. She has authored or co-authored over 290 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Dr. Lehman has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous single and multi-institution clinical trials in breast MRI, mammography and ultrasound, including the ACRIN NEJM publication that reported adding MRI scans to examinations of women with breast cancer improves detection of a second cancer in the opposite breast. Collectively, her philosophy embodies the notion that we improve the health of our community by delivery the highest quality patient-centered care in a setting of active innovation and education.

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