Tuesday 24 October 2017

Dr. Gail Weingast - Helping People Through Discovery

The art of radiology and ultrasound is really the art of discovery in order to help people. Dr. Gail Weingast figured out early on in her career that she wanted to pursue a speciality of ultrasound and radiology. She began her career at Colorado General Hospital for a several years, serving in a variety of departments and positions. Dr. Gail Weingast is currently a radiology specialist at William W. Backus Hospital, in Norwich, Connecticut. She has worked her way up to the Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging. This position allows her to help people through the discoveries made through ultrasound and radiology.

Thursday 27 July 2017

Biography: Gail Weingast

Her career journey began in 1969 and at the beginning, it wasn’t at all clear that young Gail Weingast wanted to be a doctor at all. Nowadays, it’s obvious, given that she has dedicated more than 40 years to the practice of medicine, but when she attended Tufts University’s Jackson College and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish, it wasn’t exactly a clear choice. Soon after, however, she entered the Boston University School of Medicine and she became Dr. Gail Weingast MD in 1976.

Following her time in medical school, Dr. Gail Weingast continued learning. She completed a two-year pediatrics internship, a two-year residency in pediatrics, a three year residency in the field of radiology under the guidance of Colorado General Hospital in Denver. She also completed a fellowship from the same hospital in the field of ultrasound in 1983 and Dr. Weingast then completed her post-graduate studies as a radiologist from 1983 to 1984 at St. Anthony’s Hospital, also in Denver.

From there, Dr. Gail Weingast worked at several other hospitals. Most of those were in Colorado, but there was one in New York, as well, before she settled into her current position, as a radiology specialist with William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut. She has been there for more than 20 years now, and she has guided that hospital’s radiology department into its current status as one of the best in the region, the country and even the world. Dr. Gail Weingast is now the Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging and she is considered one of the best in the world.

Saturday 15 April 2017

Dr. Gail Weingast, Radiology Pioneer

When the future Dr. Gail Weingast started her education by attending Jackson College at prestigious Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, it was to obtain a degree in Spanish, so it was clear that medicine wasn’t her first calling. It couldn’t have taken long to discover her passion, however, because she chose to attend the School of Medicine at Boston University and she officially became Gail Weingast MD in 1976.

Following medical school, Dr. Gail Weingast knew she had a long way to go to be where she wanted. She completed a two-year pediatrics internship, a three-year radiology residency and a fellowship in ultrasound at Colorado General Hospital in Denver, and completed her post-graduate studies at Denver’s St. Anthony’s Hospital, where she honed her skills as a radiologist. She completed all of this by 1984 and spent the next decade or so in practice at several other hospitals all over Colorado and New York. Then, somehow, she ended up in Connecticut.

Now, Dr. Gail Weingast has been at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut for more than 20 years. She now serves as the Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging for the hospital and she has managed to guide her department into its current position as a premiere medical facility. In all, more than four decades of education and experience that has given her a decided edge. There is no way she would trade any of it for anything in the world because, even the Spanish degree had a good reason and served a purpose. She is changing the face of radiology for the better.

Monday 30 January 2017

Dr. Gail Weingast, Backus Hospital’s Radiology Leader

She began her education by earning a B.A. in Spanish from at Jackson College at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts in 1969, so it was never clear that future Dr. Gail Weingast was destined to become a physician, let alone one who is considered one of the best doctors anywhere. However, something changed, because she was soon a med student at the Boston University School of Medicine. She officially became Dr. Gail Weingast, MD in 1976.

So many years later, Dr. Gail Weingast is considered one of the top radiology specialists anywhere. She has been at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut for more than 20 years. She is now Backus’s Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging. Over the course of the last two decades, she is credited with turning the radiology department there into one of the finest departments in the country. Overall, Dr. Gail Weingast has more than four decades of education and experience, which is the likely reason for the edge that has given her the ability to make such changes.