Continental Who's Who

Anna-Liisa Brownell, PhD

Anna-Liisa Brownell, Ph.D.is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Achiever in the field of Medicine as a Diagnostic Radiologist and at Gordon Center for Medical Imaging.

The Gordon Center for Medical Imaging located within Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School acts as a research center for medical professionals. They are dedicated to improving patient care and promoting new biomedical imaging technologies, aiding in proper diagnosis and continues therapy. Dr. Brownell serves as a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has been in practice starting in 1981.

A front runner in her field, Dr. Brownell and her interest in the educational medical field started from her interest in physical methods used to analyze tissue structures. Later she earned her PHD from University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland in 1974. Her intelligence led her to become a leading nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital where she performed medical imaging, research and training to fellow medical professionals and those coming up in the field. Some advice from Dr. Brownell to anyone looking to come into the field is people have to be open minded. Imaging technology is about more than just “pushing buttons”.

Dr. Brownell dedicates this recognition to her late husband - In loving memory of Gordon Brownell Ph.D., a spearhead in Position Imaging. He was amazing and now her guiding light