Tag: Warren Alpert Medical School
How to cure shortage of primary care docs?
When the phone rings at East Providence Primary Care, chances are there is someone in search of a new doctor on the other end.
It...
Opening a Pathway: Slate of programs exposing young people of color...
In medical school, Emmanuel Asiedu was one of the very few students of color in a sea of white students. That did not change...
Lifespan, CNE, Brown jointly agree to align health research operations
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp., Care New England Health System and Brown University will in fact join forces on health care-related matters in order to...
Dr. Edward McGookin appointed new president of Coastal Medical
PROVIDENCE – Coastal Medical Inc.’s chief medical officer Dr. Edward McGookin was promoted to president of Coastal Medical, effective Oct. 20, 2022.
McGookin has spent...
Dr. Megan L. Ranney elected to National Academy of Medicine
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Megan L. Ranney, deputy dean at Brown University’s School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine...
Brown University donates $5M to W&I’s new labor and delivery center
PROVIDENCE – Brown University donated $5 million toward the creation of Women & Infants Hospital’s new labor and delivery unit, a $28 million project...
A GROWING WORKFORCE: New labor pipeline emerging for legalized recreational cannabis
Celia Kinneary entered Johnson & Wales University’s culinary program with a grand vision of opening her own bakery and brewery someday, but now those...
Lifespan partnership receives $2.7M grant for early-detection technology
PROVIDENCE – Pulmonary hypertension, a type of high blood pressure, can have debilitating and deadly outcomes. But the “gold standard” for early detection is expensive and invasive,...
Care New England researchers among team partnering on $6.2M NIH grant
PROVIDENCE – Researchers from Care New England Health System are working alongside research teams in Michigan to measure the effectiveness of a program aimed...
Five Questions With: Dr. Vijairam Selvaraj
Dr. Vijairam Selvaraj, a hospitalist at The Miriam Hospital, is senior editor of the Brown Journal of Hospital Medicine, an online publication launched in April. The...