Sanford V. Berens, M.D. graduated from Dartmouth College and attended medical school at Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.  He completed his residency at Downstate Medical Center in New York before going into active duty in the US Army from 1968 to 1970.  Upon completing his tour of duty with the army, Dr. Berens became the Director of Mammography and the Director of Mammography for the Radiology residency program at  Memorial Medical Center in Savannah.
Dr. Berens did his Mammography training under Dr. Robert Egan, Atlanta, GA, who is credited as the founder of film-screen mammography.  He has interpreted between 4000 and 6000 mammograms yearly and has taught as well as performed numerous breast interventional procedures to include core biopsies, cyst aspirations, and needle localizations.
Dr. Berens is affiliated with Radiology Associates of Savannah and has been reading mammography for Women's Health Group since 1999.  He has started visiting WHG once a week to perform on-site diagnostic workups of those women who are symptomatic or whose screening mammograms show a finding requiring additional imaging such as diagnostic mammography or breast ultrasound.