Care New England Names New Women & Infants President

Care New England Health System today named Matt Quin, of Foxborough, MA, its new president and chief operating officer of Women & Infants Hospital, in Providence, RI. Quin has served in the interim role of COO since April and previously served as senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer here since 2015. Matt first arrived at Women & Infants in 2013 where he held the role of vice president of operations, patient care services. Details

Dr. Erika Werner and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Receive Two Prestigious Grants

Erika Werner, MD, MS, division and fellowship director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and associate professor of epidemiology at The Brown University School of Public Health, in connection with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital, was recently awarded a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) last week. Details

Survey Finds One in Three Breast Cancer Patients Report Being Unaware of Surgical Options to Reduce Scar Visibility

The majority of women who underwent lumpectomy or mastectomy surgeries for breast cancer report that the scars from those surgeries negatively affect their daily lives. Yet one-third of patients said that their physician did not tell them about surgical options that minimize scarring, according to a report published recently by the journal BMC Cancer. Details