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Hanan Gewefel

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Known For: Founder and Senior Breast Imaging Consultant at Women and Fetal Imaging Center
Country: Afghanistan

About

Hanan Gewefel is the founder of and senior breast imaging consultant at the Women and Fetal Imaging center (WAFI), a center that provides a new vision for women’s and fetal health by combining a holistic evidence-based approach to fertility, breast imaging, cancer screening menopause and female endocrine problems with the most up-to-date technology. For the past sixteen years, Dr. Gewefel has worked as a dedicated radiologist in breast imaging. For the past ten years she has worked with the mammography unit she helped build and personally manages. She founding member of the Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt and has diagnosed thousands of cases of breast cancer.

Dr. Gewefel is a big believer in raising women’s awareness of the importance of early detection. She has spoken about this topic at numerous conferences on breast cancer, both nationally and internationally. She also manages the campaign Pink for a Week, that offers women free mammograms at WAFI.

Dr. Gewefel graduated in 1983 from Cairo University School of Medicine, and received a Hospital Management Diploma in Health Care in 2007 from American University of Egypt (AUC).

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