• Radiologists and Mammographers
• Breast Surgeons
  
• Medical Oncologists
• Radiation Oncologists
• Psychiatrists

Lorraine Tafra, M.D.

Dr. Tafra, Director of the Breast Center, received her MD from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She did her residency at Thomas Jefferson University, following an 18-month research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in transplantation immunobiology, where she later was an assistant clinical professor. She was also an NIH Immunology Training grant fellow and a fellow at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Los Angeles, where she learned the sentinel node technique from one of its pioneers, Dr. Donald Morton. Prior to coming to AAMC in 1999, she was assistant professor of surgery at East Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina, for four years.

Zandra Cheng, M.D. graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston with a bachelor of science degree in biology and foreign languages and literature. She pursued her medical degree from University of California-San Diego’s School of Medicine in La Jolla, Ca., and completed her residency at The Penn State Geisinger Health System and The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, both in Hershey, Pa. Dr. Cheng is fluent in French and Chinese.

Kimberly Stewart, RN, BSN is a Breast Center Navigator at AAMC. She has nursing experience in oncology, case management, home health, pre-op recovery and various other medical surgery areas.

Barbara Easterling, RN, MS is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and the Administrative Director of the Breast Center. Ms. Easterling graduated from the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing with a bachelor of science degree in nursing. She attended the Boston University School of Nursing where she earned a master of science degree in Community Health Nursing and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honor Society. Ms. Easterling completed a post masters degree in nursing administration at Villanova University. She is an active member of the Tri-state Breast Center Coalition and a research grant reviewer for Susan G. Komen National grant program. Ms. Easterling has more than 30 years in nursing in both the public and private sector, has served as an adjunct nursing professor and a nurse consultant for the Division of Nursing HRSA.

Shyni Simon, CRNP, MSN is the primary nurse practitioner for the Risk Assessment and Prevention Program (RAPP). Ms. Simon earned a bachelor of science in nursing from Prairie View A&M University in Houston, TX., and a masters of science in nursing, speacializing in the Family Nurse Practitioner program from Bowie State University, here in Maryland. Her 10 years of nursing has been in various women's health related fields such as OB/GYN, newborn care, antepartum care, med/surg, and oncology. Ms. Simon is also currently working on the women's surgical unit here at AAMC as a part-time RN, to keep in touch with that area of nursing which she still enjoys.