Dr. Dean earned her MD degree at Loma Linda University in 1979, and was elected to Alpha-Omega-Alpha honors medical society. She completed a one year internship and three years of residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Loma Linda University, where she served as Chief Resident of Radiology. She then did an advanced fellowship in ultrasound and body imaging at Stanford University, and subsequently spent a year as a faculty radiologist at Stanford.
A board certified Diagnostic Radiologist since 1984,
Dr. Dean has specialized in women’s imaging and breast diagnosis since 1989.She interprets thousands of mammograms every year.
Dr. Dean was the first in the Tri-County region to introduce CAD (Computer-Aided Detection), cryoablation, and the first to