Department of Radiology

Dr. Sandra Rao is a Rhode Island native, born in Providence.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she pursued Government and Foreign Affairs.  Dr. Rao received her Medical Degree at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico with additional 5th Pathway training at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York.  She is a board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist with a subspecialty fellowship training in Breast Imaging. For the past 16 years she has been an academic breast radiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.  She is looking forward to moving back home to Rhode Island. She enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.