Building talent and attracting great doctors to Rhode Island.
Building talent and attracting great doctors to Rhode Island.
Brown has a 50-year track record for strengthening the quality of the health care workforce in Rhode Island. Some of the top physicians in Rhode Island report that they come to practice medicine in the state to benefit from the innovation, discovery and excitement of engaging with researchers and students at the Warren Alpert Medical School.
have some affiliation with the medical school through teaching and/or research.
hold faculty appointments in Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School.
who completed both medical school and residency at Brown are actively practicing in Rhode Island.
of Brown-affiliated residency/fellowship programs are actively practicing in Rhode Island.
The Medical School has a number of scholarships that are restricted for use by students from Rhode Island.
The Early Identification Program provides selected students from Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island, and Providence College a place in the Medical School following the student's undergraduate education.
Jeremiah Schuur, M.D., came for residency and returned to Rhode Island to become chair of Emergency Medicine and chief of EM for Lifespan. His leadership has been essential for the hospital’s management of COVID surges.
Nicole Alexander-Scott, MPH, came to Brown for a fellowship in infectious diseases, earned a master’s in Brown’s School of Public Health and was director of the RI Department of Health. Thanks to her handling of the pandemic, RI has one of the highest adult COVID vaccination rates in the country.
Roxanne Vrees, M.D., came to RI through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), an eight-year continuum that allows students to combine both their undergraduate and medical school education at Brown. Vrees helped establish the first sexual assault nurse examiner [SANE] program. Women & Infants Hospital is the only emergency room in RI that has a comprehensive post-assault follow-up clinic for survivors.
Tom Ollila, M.D., came to Brown for residency and stayed. He is a hematologist who contributes to the local community through medical practice and raising funds for cancer clinical trials. The Tour de Rhody that he founded has topped $97,000 in annual donations.
RI is a center of excellence in stroke prevention and treatment thanks to the work of three Brown-trained physicians: Mahesh V. Jayaraman, M.D., director of the Neurovascular Center at Rhode Island Hospital; Ryan A. McTaggart, M.D., director of interventional neuroradiology at Rhode Island Hospital; and Karen Furie, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology and an expert on acute stroke. All did residencies in RI.
Several Brown pipeline programs introduce local students to careers in medicine and health care and increase the diversity and talent of the medical professions.