Julie Reiland, MD, and Avera’s Breast Care Innovators

Since 2011, Julie Reiland, MD, and her partners at Avera Medical Group Comprehensive Breast Care have treated nearly 200 patients with electron-based intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT), making them one of the highest-volume centers for this technique in the country. In appropriate patients with small, non-aggressive tumors, IORT may allow for a single “one-and-done” dose of radiation. In other cases, post-surgery radiation can be dropped to just three weeks instead of the usual six with a “boost of IORT.