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Research News
Kenney Day 2012
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island's 79th annual Kenney Day took place on Friday, March 23rd.
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Brown Family Medicine Department News
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Family Medicine Residency Announces Class of 2015
The future of primary care is on its way to Pawtucket! On March 16, the Brown Family Medicine Residency at Memorial Hospital of RI learned which 13 brand-new doctors would make up the residency's Class of 2015.
"We are thrilled to have matched with such an impressive group!" said Family Medicine Program Director Melissa Nothnagle, MD, MSc. "With broad interests and strong qualifications, this class will bring passion and commitment to care of Pawtucket's underserved population."
The incoming Family Medicine class of 2015 is:
- Cara Berkowitz, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Kristina Conner, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Alexis Drutchas, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Lauren Goddard, MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Carmen Goojha, MD, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Jessica Huang, MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine
- Jennifer Lu, DO, Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Melissa Mackel, DO, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Tania (Visnaskas) Menz, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Daria Szkwarko, DO, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine
- Mark Turshen, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Sara Watson, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Erin Wisman, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Follow this link to read the Class of 2015 Bio's |
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Mom's Approve of Patient Centered Experience
 Memorial Hospital's Birthing Center has been offering a "gentle cesarean" program for the past two years; a program which promotes a calm environment for the newborn infant and a bonding opportunity for mother and child. Dr. Susanna Magee confirms that research finds that practicing the gentle cesarean process decreases instances of postpartum depression and increases breastfeeding rates. NBC 10's Barbara Morse Silva reports that the Memorial Hospital Birthing Center "is the 1st and only hospital in the area" practicing the gentle cesarean procedure.
Watch the Video or Read the story below:
It's just been a few weeks since Esma was born.
Her mother, Jennifer Alrahbi, had her husband and her doula -- a non-medical labor companion -- by her side when she had her medically necessary cesarean birth. "Opposed to it being a surgery. It was a birth," Alrahbi said.
That's because Alrahbi had what's called a gentle cesarean section. Doula Jessica Fuss described a typical cesarean birth. "They're taken out of their mom. They're put under bright glaring lights flat on their backs when they've been nice and curved in the womb for so long -- flailing their arms around, totally out of control," Fuss said.
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Family Medicine in Rwanda
 Fadya El Rayess, MD, MPH, Director of Global Health, recently spent two weeks in Rwanda, laying the groundwork for an innovative program to train and graduate Rwandan Family Medicine physicians in Rwanda. During the trip – part of a partnership between the Brown Department of Family Medicine and the Family and Community Medicine (FAMCO) Department of the National University of Rwanda – she spent two days at each of the three training sites rounding with Rwandan FAMCO residents at Ruhengeri, Kabgayi and Rwinkwavu District Hospitals. Dr. El Rayess worked closely with in-country FAMCO Residency faculty: University of Colorado’s Drs. Cal Wilson and Michael Miller, as well as Partners in Healths’ Dr. Maaike Flinkenflogel to finalize an eight-year plan for the Department of Family and Community Medicine in Rwanda.
The district hospitals serves a population of about 250,000 each, comprised mainly of rural farmers. Admissions to medical adult and pediatric wards are largely due to diarrheal and respiratory infections, as well as, complications of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and congestive heart failure. The surgical wards are full of orthopedic cases resulting from car and motorcycle accidents. In an effort to decrease this vehicular morbidity the country has recently passed strict laws requiring helmet and seat belt use.
The Brown Department of Family Medicine is presently recruiting faculty to teach family medicine for one year at one of the three hospitals. If you have an interest in applying for one of the Global Health Faculty positions please contact Dr. El Rayess at
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FAMILY MEDICINE SIM CENTER OPENS: In an effort to provide the most advanced
medical training for primary care residents, the Memorial Hospital/Brown Family Medicine Residency Program unveiled the new Center for Clinical Skills Training in their Family Care Center on October 19th. Family Medicine faculty and residents demonstrated the hospital’s new high tech teaching simulators, which will be used for training in various settings including emergency, OB/GYN and pediatric care. Funds for the equipment were provided by a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to fund innovative primary care/family medicine residency training, as part of the federal government’s initiative to strengthen and grow the primary care workforce.
Local Media coverage of the event included:
NBC 10 Health Check
Pawtucket Times
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