Uzma Alam

I am a radiologist and breast and body imager by training, and I am very passionate about providing quality care for breast imaging for women specifically. I truly feel that a woman's health is the cornerstone of the stability, the health, and the wellbeing of her family. When a woman is struggling with her healthcare, it's a trickle-down effect to the children, to everyone around her. We're carrying everything. I feel really passionate about educating women appropriately about breast health and breast care, about telling them why screening is important, and trying to detect breast cancer early enough so it's curable, so women are not spending months and years under heavy chemo or heavy surgery, and then the morbidity and the disability of that, and the pain of that that lasts for years. That is the core of what drives me, my why, what I do, what I love to do - to be able to change the trajectory of a woman's life if I can pick up something early. I have worked in very different arenas and different fields, including big Level 1 trauma centers, and I have started breast imaging programs with busy private practices in Buffalo from the ground up. I also teach residents at University of Buffalo, training young doctors. My purpose of coming to West Palm is to provide good quality healthcare, breast imaging, specifically breast care. What I used to do in New York in my practice is when you came in, you would leave my clinic knowing what your results were, and that's what I want to do here. I want to have women come in with any problems or screening, screen them, show them what's going on, educate them about breast cancer, their risk of breast cancer, what their tailored screening would be like, and how to best prevent breast cancer and take care of their breast health.