We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Paul Risk, radiologist, diagnostic imaging department. As a breast specialist radiologist, Dr Risk is a medical doctor who specialises in diagnosis of breast disease, using mammography and ultrasound. His bio is located below.
For the Centre, having an onsite radiologist is about raising the level of patient care offered in the diagnostic imaging department, especially for breast health.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Dr Risk graduated from Dalhousie University Medical School in 1988. After working as a general practitioner for four years, he returned to school for postgraduate training in diagnostic radiology at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario. He completed his four year residency program in 1997 before being admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) with a Specialist Certificate in Diagnostic Radiology.
Dr Risk worked as a general radiologist at St. Martha’s Hospital in Nova Scotia for 5 years before joining a large group of radiologists in Calgary, Alberta where he has worked since 2002. Within this very busy hospital and community clinic based practice he helped foster and develop the small dedicated breast imaging and intervention-focused group of radiologists with a subspecialty interest in this field of diagnostic imaging. During these past 19 years he has played an integral role as part of this group providing the vast majority of breast imaging and breast biopsies for the greater Calgary area and beyond.
