USA – Underserved Regions

Alan Greenfield, MD

Director, RAD-AID Appalachia

Dr. Alan Greenfield is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist with nearly 30 years of academic, hospital and private practice experience, currently licensed in New York and Virginia. He attended the New York State program of the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel, graduating in 1987. He completed an internship in internal medicine and a diagnostic radiology residency program at University Hospital at Stony Brook in New York. He has also previously trained at the Armed Forced Institute of Pathology in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as a radiologist in an urban physician deprived area at the end of his training for several years. Dr. Greenfield was a first responder at the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001 and during the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. He is a volunteer fire-medic/ EMT with his local fire department. He has served as a consultant with the FBI and affiliated law enforcement groups after 9-11 in matters of emergency medical response. He has volunteered with the Health Wagon in Appalachia for the last five years and has assisted them in providing diagnostic imaging services including x-ray and ultrasound during that time.

Frank Scherf, RT(R), BSHCA

Program Manager, RAD-AID Appalachia

Frank Scherf is a registered diagnostic radiographer with the ARRT. He has over 35 years of experience as a clinical radiographer and is licensed in New York and Virginia. After radiography training at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, NY, he completed his BS degree in Health Care Administration at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine. His experience includes radiology administration, membership on various ARRT licensing exam committees, medical imaging consultant, and most recently, as an educator. Frank was a volunteer with RAD-AID Appalachia, assisting Healthwagon, several years ago.