Meet our Providers Tufts Medical Center Specialists Seeing Patients North of Boston Tufts Medical Center is committed to providing access to academic specialists in locations convenient to patients and referring physicians. Our specialists provide care for a range of patients with acute and long- term illnesses in locations throughout the communities north of Boston. We can also make a seamless referral into Boston if tertiary care is required.

CARDIAC CARE Taimur Dad, MD OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Nephrologist Ann Garlitski, MD Young Bae Kim, MD Expertise: Acute and chronic kidney Co-Director, New England Chief, Gynecologic Oncology disease, hypertension, kidney stones, Cardiac Arrhythmia Center Expertise: Gynecologic cancers, electrolyte disorders Expertise: Cardiac arrhythmias gynecologic surgery Location: Lawrence Memorial Hospital—Medford Location: Melrose Internal Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center— Frequency: Tuesdays Medicine Associates Stoneham Frequency: 3 Thursdays per month To make an appointment, call 781-391-0801. Frequency: Clinic 1st and 3rd Friday, procedures TBD (in credentialing process) To make an appointment, call 781-979-3800. Alin A. Joseph, MD, MS To make an appointment, call 781-224-5810. Nephrologist COLORECTAL SURGERY Expertise: General nephrology, Britta Panda, MD, PhD transplant nephrology, and Lilian Chen, MD Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician glomerulonephritis Colorectal Surgeon Expertise: High risk pregnancy, Location: Lawrence Memorial Hospital—Medford Expertise: Electrophysiology prenatal diagnosis Phone: 617-591-1078 Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center Location: Melrose Internal Medicine Frequency: Wednesday in Stoneham Associates Frequency: Weekly on Fridays Location: Emerson Hospital—Concord Frequency: Every Wednesday and one Tuesday/month Phone: 978-287-4788 To make an appointment, call 781-224-5875. To make an appointment, call 617-636-8161. Frequency: Monday, Thursday and Friday GASTROENTEROLOGY Neonatology experts NEUROSCIENCES Floating Hospital neonatologists staff the Level Robert Yacavone, MD II Special Care Nursery at MelroseWakefield Gastroenterologist Marie Roguski, MD, MPH Hospital, 24 hours a day. Site leader: Karen Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgeon Expertise: Advanced endoscopy Harvey Wilkes, MD For a full list of the (EUS, ERCP) Expertise: Diagnosis and treatment of experts available, visit floatinghospital.org/ Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital spine and brain injuries and diseases. newbornmedicine. Frequency: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays (may be adjusted Neurosurgical oncology and expertise when he is on service at Tufts MC) in tumors of the brain and spine. continued on back Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital To make an appointment, call 781-213-5200. Frequency: Clinic Wednesday and Friday; Surgery every Monday and some Fridays

NEPHROLOGY To make an appointment, call 781-979-3070. Michael B. Cohen, MD Nephrologist Mina Safain, MD Expertise: Kidney disease, Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgeon hypertension, hemodialysis, and Expertise: Neurosurgery, spine peritoneal dialysis surgery, brain and spinal tumors Location: Hallmark Health Medical Center—Reading Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital as of february 2019 Frequency: Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon Frequency: Clinic every Monday and Tuesday; Surgery every Wednesday and some Fridays To make an appointment, call 781-994-1228. To make an appointment, call 781-979-3070. ORTHOPEDICS VASCULAR SURGERY Luis Suarez, MD, RPVI Vascular Surgery Ashley Rogerson, MD Mark Iafrati, MD Expertise: Vascular Surgery Orthopedic Surgeon Chief, Vascular Surgery Location: Lowell General Hospital Expertise: Spine Surgery, myelopathy, Expertise: Vascular Surgery Phone: 978-942-2610 spine trauma, spinal stenosis, disc Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital Frequency: Surgery and Angiography: Mondays and herniation, spine tumor/infection, Phone: 781-979-3500 Tuesdays; Clinic: Mondays and Tuesdays minimally invasive surgery Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital (Vascular Patients Location: Agility Orthopedics Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital and Vein Procedures) Frequency: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays Phone: 617-636-8094 Frequency: Surgery and Angiography: Wednesdays and Frequency: Surgery and Angiography: please call; To make an appointment, call 781-279-7040. Fridays; Clinic: 1st, 3rd, and 5th Monday Clinic: please call Phone: 781-979-3500

PULMONARY/CRITICAL CARE Location: Melrose Internal Medicine Associates Maher Tabba, MD Frequency: 2nd & 4th Mondays Pulmonologist Phone: 617-636-5019 Expertise: Thoracic oncology Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center— Payam Salehi, MD, PhD Vascular Surgery Stoneham Frequency: 2nd and 4th Thursdays Expertise: Vascular Surgery Location: Lowell General Hospital To make an appointment, call 781-224-5800. Phone: 978-942-2610 Frequency: Surgery and Angiography: Wednesdays; Clinic: Wednesdays THORACIC SURGERY Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital Antonio D. Lassaletta, MD Phone: 617-636-8094 Thoracic Surgeon Frequency: Frequency of Surgery and Angiography: please Expertise: General thoracic and foregut call; Frequency of Clinic: please call surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, surgical robotics Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center in Stoneham Frequency: Clinic every Tuesday morning

To make an appointment, call 781-224-5810.

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95 1 Emerson Hospital—Concord 93 3

95 133 Old Road Nine Acre Corner, STONEHAM

Concord, MA 01742 95 1 Hallmark Health Medical Center—Reading CONCORD MELROSE 30 New Crossing Road, Reading, MA 01867 2 3 2 95 Agility Orthopedics

2 1 92 Montvale Ave, Stoneham, MA 02180 95 2 MEDFORD

3 Tufts MC Cancer Center in Stoneham 93 41 Montvale Avenue, Stoneham, MA 02180 1 95

MelroseWakefield Hospital 93 585 Lebanon Street, Melrose, MA 02176 3 90

Melrose Internal Medicine Associates BOSTON 50 Rowe Street, #500 and #700, 90 90 93 Melrose, MA, 02176

Lawrence Memorial Hospital—Medford Please note that this list does not include 170 Governors Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 the Floating Hospital specialists who are rotating through Floating Hospital’s pediatric specialty Lowell General Hospital center in Woburn or the Tufts MC surgical residents 295 Varnum Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854 rotating through MelroseWakefield Hospital. 11582 0219