If you are a former patient of Brown Surgical Associates, your online patient portal has switched to Brown University Health’s electronic health record and patient portal, MyChart. Medical information for appointments will be available there.
Welcome to Brown University Health Surgery. Thank you for visiting our website to learn about our team. We are a diverse group of specialty-trained surgeons delivering innovative surgical care using advanced technical skills. Our group is compassionate and collaborative, truly caring for our patients. We have 55 surgeons and over 30 advanced practice providers who offer care at 13 clinical sites and via Telehealth. Our surgeons also serve as faculty for trainees within the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.
Schedule an appointment with us today to meet with us and experience world-class surgical care. I know you’ll be impressed with our surgical team.
Sincerely,
Aurora Pryor, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS
Surgeon-in-Chief, Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital
Chair, Department of Surgery, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
J. Murray Beardsley Professor and Chair
Brown University Health’s Medical Group’s Surgical Services provides advanced, specialized, and compassionate care. We offer the latest surgical techniques such as minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery, and many of our physicians also participate in groundbreaking research and clinical trials.
Brown Surgical Associates physicians play a primary role in teaching, training, and mentoring Brown University medical students, residents, and fellows.
Fellowship training is not an academic requirement of the medical profession. But it is necessary to be considered a true “specialist” in the medical profession.
Patients often ask:
Fellowship training is not an academic requirement of the medical profession. But it is necessary to be considered a true “specialist”. It requires additional years of clinical and surgical training to earn this distinction.
Brown University Health surgical specialists have all received fellowship training. It demonstrates their desire and ability to treat the most challenging cases and approach clinical problems with the highest degree of rigor.
Training to become a physician is a long road, with a four-year undergraduate degree, four additional years of medical school, a five-to six-year residency program, and often additional time in research.
Fellowship programs are optional and require additional, extensive training. Physicians pursue fellowship to better understand a particular subfield in medicine and to truly become experts in that area, developing a deeper understanding and rigorous skill set.
Fellowships are competitive and only certain candidates are selected to participate in exclusive programs offered in hospitals throughout the nation and the world, including in Rhode Island. Mentors in fellowship programs are highly skilled and respected in their fields, and their graduates often become involved in medical education and fellowship training themselves, in addition to patient care.
The most important element of fellowship training is, ultimately, the patient. A doctor who has completed a fellowship has made a personal commitment to acquire knowledge and experience to help solve the most complex clinical problems. Time, expense, and sacrifice are needed to complete this training. Their outstanding patient care is the result of commitment.
