Rob Borkowski
Blue Cross, Rhode Island PBS expand opioid education to middle, high...
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Rhode Island PBS Education Services are extending their opioid use prevention partnership into...
Five Questions With: Samir Mistry
Samir Mistry, named chief pharmacy officer at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island in December, has worked in managed care for two...
Benchmark’s One Company Fund supports nursing assistant after car accident
WARWICK – On Oct. 27, Danielle Cardin, a certified nursing assistant at Greenwich Farm memory care unit who suffered a shattered pelvis and hip...
Hasbro Children’s Hospital names Lulla chief of pediatric hematology and oncology
PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children’s Hospital has named Dr. Rishi Lulla as its new chief of pediatric hematology and oncology.
Lulla comes to the Lifespan Corp....
Dennery named president of Society for Redox Biology and Medicine
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Phyllis A. Dennery, pediatrician-in-chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, has been named the new president of the Society for Redox Biology and...
BCBS names 11 local hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers
PROVIDENCE — The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has named 11 local hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers for five areas of specialty care as...
Brown researcher: Electronic health records create high stress for physicians
Physicians say electronic health records are stressful, but a survey of Rhode Island doctors and promising strategies suggest compromises between round-the-clock accessibility and reasonable...
Del Sesto negotiating to avoid suit curbing St. Joseph settlement
PROVIDENCE – Stephen Del Sesto, court-appointed receiver for the collapsed $85 million St. Joseph Health Services pension plan, has until Feb. 1 to dissuade...
URI-sponsored BEACON study seeks blood vessel inflammation, Alzheimer’s link
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience researchers will investigate reduction of brain blood vessel inflammation in fighting Alzheimer’s disease as...
MedMates rebrands as RI Bio, introduces membership fees
PROVIDENCE — Local life sciences industry network group MedMates has rebranded as RI Bio, is now the Rhode Island affiliate of Biotechnology Innovation Organization,...


















