Erica Pollack, MD
Director, RAD-AID Breast Imaging
Erica Pollack, MD, is a fellowship-trained breast radiologist. She is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she also serves as Associate Program Director for the diagnostic radiology residency and Director of the Global Health Radiology Pathway. Dr. Pollack graduated from New York University School of Medicine and completed radiology residency and breast imaging fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center.
She began working with RAD-AID in 2011 as a Global Health Fellow in India to help launch the RAD-AID Asha Jyoti Program and took a leadership role as Program Manager for RAD-AID India in 2014. Currently, Dr. Pollack serves as Director of Breast Imaging at RAD-AID International and works with the RAD-AID country leaders to implement and support diagnostic and interventional breast imaging programs. She collaborates with the RAD-AID breast imagers and mammographers to establish best practices for efficient use of breast imaging services in low-resource areas. For more information on women’s imaging in RAD-AID programs, please email epollack@rad-aid.org.
Kiran Sheikh, MD
Program Manager, RAD-AID Breast Imaging
Dr. Sheikh is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist with over 10 years of private practice, hospital and academic experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Breast Imaging in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Medical Doctorate from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Sheikh completed her residency in Diagnostic Radiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2013 and a fellowship in Breast and Body Imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2014. She was named Teacher of the Year in Diagnostic Radiology at Bridgeport Hospital-Yale New Haven Health in 2017-2018. Dr. Sheikh is currently the program director for the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program at Bridgeport Hospital-Yale New Haven Health. She is affiliated with the Yale Institute of Global Health and became involved with RAD-AID International in 2022. Dr. Sheikh is currently the project manager of the breast imaging fellowship in Ghana, conducting in-country radiology assessments, providing lectures and breast procedural workshops, and assisting in diagnostic breast imaging with the radiologists in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana.
Matthew Burger, MD
Program Manager, RAD-AID Breast Imaging
Matthew Burger, MD earned his medical degree from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and completed his diagnostic radiology residency at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida. He is currently completing a breast imaging fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Burger has a strong interest in global radiology education and has been actively involved with RAD-AID International throughout his training. During residency, he founded a RAD-AID chapter at AdventHealth to increase trainee involvement in global health and imaging education. He later received the Dr. Wassef E. Michael Mikhail Memorial Global Health Scholarship through RAD-AID to travel to Tanzania at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), where he taught radiology residents and technologists, participated in case conferences, and supported breast imaging education initiatives.
He has contributed to the development of a breast ultrasound curriculum for the RAD-AID Learning Center, with a focus on practical, scalable training for low-resource settings. Dr. Burger is currently working with RAD-AID Uganda and serves as Vice Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center RAD-AID chapter, where he collaborates with local trainees and partners to strengthen breast imaging education and diagnostic capacity.