Quality indicators:

Why should leading doctors and nurses be important to you?

Board-certified physicians and nurses have completed training that a specialty board requires. They have practiced for a specified period of time and passed a difficult written and oral examination. Board certification is generally accepted as a good indication of competence and experience.

All of the radiologists for Women's Center are board certified. Pictured (L to R) are Dr. Mark Vacarro, Dr. Angela McCoy, Dr. Nancy Pennington, Dr. Charles Brekke, Dr. Rebecca Stough and Dr. Carol O'Dell.

Breast care:

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Leading doctors and nurses

Alan Hollingsworth, MD

Medical Director, Mercy Women’s Center

• First board-certified physician in Oklahoma to limit his practice to breast disease

• First to establish a formal risk assessment program for breast cancer in Oklahoma

• Headed one of the first programs nationwide to be recognized by the American Cancer Society as a Center of Excellence for genetic testing to identify Hereditary Breast-Ovarian Cancer Syndrome

• First to publish a book for the lay reader addressing the complicated subject of risk assessment

• Member of and lead author on major consensus paper for the National Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Working Group

• One of 15 physicians nationwide appointed to the National Working Group on breast cancer risk assessment by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

• Komen Foundation “Hero” for Central Oklahoma affiliate

Rebecca Stough, MD

Director of Imaging, Mercy Women’s Center

• State’s leading expert on breast MRI

• Board-certified in radiology

• Launched Oklahoma’s first breast MRI program at Mercy

• Has studied thousands of breast MRI images of patients with diagnostic problems or newly discovered cancers

Sharon Nall, RN, MS, CNS, OCN

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mercy Women’s Center

• The only clinical nurse specialist in Oklahoma certified in oncology and specialized in breast risk assessment

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