Moreira is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. She also speaks multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and Creole.

Brown University’s Alpert Medical School announced Thursday it has finalized a plan to merge six Rhode Island medical practices into a new umbrella group that will employ more than 500 local doctors.

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Recognized for their vision and commitment to medical education and research, the leadership team at Brown Physicians Inc. has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious W.W. Keen Award.

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Brown Medicine landed a place in Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work 2018.

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Dr. Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine, discusses the importance of a $5 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant that will focus on gun violence and its effect on children. She will be leading the work group on mental health, and will examine “what is the effects on communities and society and what can we do to decrease fears,” among other related topics.

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Dr. Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine, delivered a presentation titled “Preventing Firearm Injury: ‘Yes, We Can’” during the first meeting of the Gun Safety Working Group. Dr. Ranney is the co-chair of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s working group, which is tasked with providing suggestions for reducing gun violence throughout the state. 

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Dr. Karen Furie, chair of neurology at the Warren Alpert Medical School, commented on the findings of a new study that suggests the risk of a stroke increases with the number of cigarettes a person smokes a day.

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Dr. Karen Furie, chair of neurology at the Warren Alpert Medical School and stroke neurologist who was on the statement’s writing committee, says atrial fibrillation is a “major public health concern” yet many people diagnosed with it aren’t prescribed anticoagulants, which would help prevent strokes. Her comments come after the American Heart Association published a scientific statement calling for a deeper understanding of the growing and dangerous heart condition.

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At a forum on how to control health care costs, Dr. Peter Hollmann, a clinical assistant professor of family medicine, noted that most spending goes toward health care that people really need.