A local EMT is benefiting from weight loss surgery performed by Brown Surgical Associates’ Dr. Siva Vithiananthan. “My surgery was just a few days before kind of everything went hectic,” Morgan Schmitt, a Cumberland resident who works as an EMT in Quincy, Massachusetts – told WJAR’s Barbara Morse. That surgery was on March 2 on…
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Finding new way to treat breast cancer during the pandemic
Breast cancer treatments continue during the pandemic, in a new way! “We’re very fortunate in the breast cancer world,” said Dr. Theresa Graves, a breast cancer surgeon with Brown Surgical Associates and director of the Breast Cancer Center of Lifespan Cancer Institute. Graves recently told Channel 10’s Barbara Morse that most patients, as many as…
Dr. Cioffi discusses steps to resume elective procedures as COVID hospitalizations decline
As the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 trends downward in Rhode Island, the state’s largest hospital group has announced plans to lift restrictions on elective surgeries. Lifespan suspended those procedures for the last six weeks and only performed emergency surgeries. Brown Surgical Associates’ Dr. William Cioffi, the surgeon-in-chief at Rhode Island and The Miriam…
Dr. Wiggins prescribing yoga to deal with pandemic stress
Yoga is being prescribed to relieve stress and building immunity. “During this pandemic, we are at a time where everyone is stressed. There are no normals and when we’re stressed,” said Dr. Doreen Wiggins, a breast surgeon with Brown Surgical Associates and the director of the Cancer Survivorship Medicine program at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative….
Barrington man gets new kidney during pandemic
After three years on the transplant list, a Barrington man received a new kidney during this pandemic. “He’s everybody’s feel-good story,” said Karen Pastore of her husband of almost 50 years, Fred. Brown Surgical Associates’ own Dr. Adena Osband performed the life-saving surgery at Rhode Island Hospital. Watch Channel 10’s story on Fred’s amazing journey.
Dr. Wiggins uses yoga training to uplift others during COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced both doctors and their patients into unchartered territory. In Yoga Medicine, Dr. Doreen Wiggins explains how she has called upon her yoga training to cultivate compassion not only for herself but for others. Read the full article »
With help from Dr. Osband, RI man’s long hope for new kidney realized
Fred Pastore’s years-long wait for a new kidney recently came to an end. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Fred got the call that he had a donor. The successful transplant was lead by Dr. Adena Osband of Brown Surgical Associates. Read more about Fred’s journey in The Providence Journal.
Dr. Wiggins shares how yoga helps patients move beyond cancer fear
Once cancer treatment for breast cancer has been completed, there is no guarantee of wholly successful treatment. That can lead patients into the territory of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR). In a recent article in Yoga Medicine, Dr. Doreen Wiggins discussed the role yoga can play in overcoming that fear. She says research has demonstrated…
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Moreira reaching out to Cape Verdean community
Dr. Carla C. Moreira, RPVI, a surgeon with Brown Surgical Associates, was recently featured in a Channel 12 story about minorities and COVID-19. Dr. Moreira has taken steps to help spread awareness among the Cape Verdean community, including making informative videos on the virus in Creole. Dr. Moreira says since most local and national press conferences…
5 Questions with Dr. Giorgi: BSA surgeon discusses COVID-19, impacts on Italy
In the Providence Business News, Dr. Marcoandrea Giorgi, a bariatric surgeon here at Brown Surgical Associates, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted his work, as well as his thoughts on the pandemic in hard-hit Italy. Giorgi, who has practiced in Providence for seven years and has a special interest in minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery, is…
