Dr. Shaffer earned her BA from Kansas State University, MD from Tufts University and Anatomy PhD from the University of Kansas. She completed a Radiology residency at New England Medical Center, and fellowship in Thoracic Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a past Associate Chief of Radiology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and past Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Cambridge Health Alliance. She is currently the Vice-Chair for Education in Radiology at Boston Medical Center and a Professor of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine.