Mission and Goals
Our mission is to provide the most outstanding breast imaging service in the region, with a focus on compassion and personalized care.
The Bay Radiology goals are simple: 1) to solve problems for women (and men) with breast symptoms, quickly and efficiently and 2) to find breast cancers in asymptomatic women when they are tiny and curable.
Why Choose Us?
Prompt answers
We understand that having a mammogram can be physically uncomfortable and waiting for the results can be very stressful. At Bay Radiology all patients receive their results within 24 hours. If additional evaluation is needed, it can almost always be performed the same day or within the next few days (depending on your schedule). All patients can consult directly with our physicians if needed.
Comfortable and welcoming environment
Your comfort and peace of mind are our priority. Our office is warm, spa-like, and private. Our team genuinely cares and will work hard to make sure you have the best experience possible. And sometimes it’s the little things, like our soft, fluffy robes (with sizes to fit everyone).
Fellowship-trained breast imagers
Most mammograms, including many in our local market, are read by general radiologists who have completed only 3 months of required training in breast imaging during their 5-year residency. These general radiologists may only read mammograms once or twice a month. In contrast, Dr. Amodei trained at The Mayo Clinic and Hopkins, including dedicated fellowship training in breast imaging at Hopkins and has specialized in women’s imaging for over 17 years. Dr. Schmidt trained at Mallinckrodt, Stanford, and Yale and has been specialized in breast imaging for even longer!
State of the art technology including contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM)
Mammograms with tomosynthesis (aka 3D mammograms) have been shown to increase detection of invasive breast cancer (the ones that matter most) by 40%, and decrease false alarms by 15-40%. We are the first in Maryland to offer Clarity HD ultra-high resolution tomosynthesis and also utilize state of the art i2D to substantially decrease radiation doses. We are also the first facility in Anne Arundel County to offer contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM). Learn more about CEM here (link coming soon!).
Tomosynthesis-guided biopsy and CEM-guided biopsy
What is the point of finding a tiny cancer with tomosynthesis or contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) if you can’t biopsy it accurately? Bay Radiology was the first facility in Anne Arundel County to offer tomosynthesis-guided biopsy and is also the first to offer CEM-guided biopsy, so our team is very experienced. Stereotactic biopsies can also be performed using our system and are typically much more comfortable than procedures performed on traditional prone tables.
Physician-performed ultrasound
In many centers, breast ultrasound is performed by a technologist. At Bay Radiology, all breast ultrasound is performed by the interpreting physician. This allows the physician to examine the breast and directly correlate the palpable lump or other abnormality with the imaging findings in real time rather than relying on a technologist. This also means that the patient gets to review her images directly with the physician on the day of the examination.
Our Physicians
Dr. Laura Amodei
Dr. Laura Amodei was born and raised near Pittsburgh, PA. She earned her B.A. in Biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and her medical degree at The Mayo Clinic. Dr. Amodei completed her residency and fellowships in both breast and body imaging at Johns Hopkins. She also spent two years at Hopkins doing MRI research on an NIH training grant and was an instructor for residents and fellows. She and her husband, who both love the water, lived in Severna Park at that time.
From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Amodei served as the Deputy Director at the Charleston Breast Center (CBC) in Charleston, SC. The CBC was a free-standing state of the art breast center that offered digital mammography, physician-performed ultrasound, and breast MRI to patients regardless of their ability to pay. For her work there, Dr. Amodei was named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by the Charleston Business Journal and was also named one of “Americas Top Radiologists” for breast imaging.
In 2010, Dr. Amodei’s son was born congenitally deaf. She and her family moved to Washington, DC so that he could attend a special school. She moved back to Severna Park with her husband, son, and daughter in 2014.
Throughout her career, Dr. Amodei has published multiple papers and has been an invited speaker at several academic meetings. She served as a full time healthcare consultant for McKinsey and Company for two years and has also been on the advisory boards for several companies, helping them to develop products that better serve the needs of patients. She was also an invited participant at The White House Physician Forum on Health Reform in May 2009.
From 2011 to 2017, Dr. Amodei served as a dedicated breast imager at Washington Radiology. WRA was the earliest adopter of 3D mammography and 3D tomosynthesis-guided biopsy in the Baltimore-Washington region, so Dr. Amodei has been interpreting low dose 3D mammograms for many years. She has been the owner of Bay Radiology since 2017 and is honored to have the opportunity to carry on the legacy of Bay Radiology’s founder, Dr. Helen Mrose.
Dr. Laura Amodei
Dr. Maria Schmidt
Dr. Maria Schmidt is an experienced, dedicated breast imager. She trained at Stanford, Yale, and completed her breast-imaging fellowship at Mallinckrodt (the prestigious radiology program at Washington University in St. Louis). For many years Dr Schmidt served as Director of Breast Imaging at Hartsdale Medical Center. She still teaches as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Schmidt and her husband now split their time between New York and Baltimore where they enjoy spending time with their children and grandchildren. Dr. Schmidt sees patients at Bay Radiology while Dr. Amodei is away at medical conferences, on vacation, etc. We are SO lucky to have her here!
Dr. Maria Schmidt
Dr. Claire Streibert trained at Yale and then at Johns Hopkins at the same time as Dr. Amodei. She is an experienced, dedicated fellowship-trained breast imager and Dr. Amodei’s close personal friend. We were extremely fortunate to have Dr. Streibert seeing patients temporarily at Bay Radiology while she was considering buying a breast imaging center in PA where she lives. We miss having her at Bay Radiology but are excited that Dr. Streibert is now the Chief of Breast Imaging at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
Dr. Claire Streibert
Dr. Helen Mrose
Dr. Helen Mrose attended Smith College, earned both PhD and MD degrees from Yale University, and then completed radiology residency and breast imaging fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard). Initially, she was on the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital, then at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and subsequently served as the Director of Breast Imaging at several medical institutions in our area including George Washington University, Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, and the University of Maryland.
Over time, drawing on her outstanding training and experience, Dr. Mrose conceived of a better way to perform breast cancer screening: all mammograms would be performed on state of the art equipment and read by fellowship trained breast imagers immediately after they were performed, and if additional imaging were needed, it would be performed that same day. This provides the highest level of breast cancer detection with the lowest degree of patient anxiety. She saw her first patients at Bay Radiology in 2010 and built it into a thriving, well-regarded practice.
In 2017, Dr. Mrose decided to phase back from full time practice and sold Bay Radiology to Dr. Amodei, whom she knew would continue Bay Radiology’s special model of care. Dr. Mrose retired fully from Bay Radiology in the summer 2019 and is enjoying living in Park City, Utah.
Dr. Helen Mrose
