Radiologist Yania López Álvarez (center), discusses the patient cases of her residents, Amanda P. Marrero González and Manuel Betancourt Robles, at the Medical Center of Puerto Rico in San Juan, P.R., on May 10, 2018. Lopez, director of the Imaging Center of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, returned to her homeland last year to work with the island's population, leaving behind onerous job offers in the mainland. With a donation from Direct Relief, the 35-year-old will be able to practice her specialty and create her most desired workshop doing Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography at the center, as the new x-ray machine is expected to arrive later in the year. Currently, the young doctor spends most of her time working with radiology residents at the public hospital, where the UPR School of Medicine is located at. (Erika P. Rodriguez for Direct Relief)
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