Dr. Bredella is professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, vice chair for faculty affairs in the Department of Radiology and a musculoskeletal radiologist at Mass General. In her capacity of vice chair for faculty affairs, she established a department-wide faculty mentoring program which was awarded the Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School. She also serves as director of the Center for Faculty Development at Mass General and has established a new office for well-being to improve the well-being of our faculty and trainees across the career span. During the COVID-19 pandemic she implemented multiple initiatives to support the emotional and physical well-being of our faculty with special focus on women faculty and trainees. Dr. Bredella is leading departmental initiatives to fight physician burnout and serves on the hospital Frigoletto Committee on Physician Well-Being.

Dr. Bredella co-directs the Harvard KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training Program where she mentors clinical translational researchers across all Harvard hospitals and specialties. She has been elected to be a member of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program Steering Committee and chairs several CTSA working groups. She is an active member of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Forces at Mass General and Harvard Medical School where she designed successful initiatives for increasing diversity in research operations.