Meet our Providers 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.

as of february 2021

CARDIAC CARE NEPHROLOGY Mina Safain, MD Ann Garlitski, MD Michael B. Cohen, MD Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgeon Co-Director, New England Nephrologist Expertise: Neurosurgery, spine Cardiac Arrhythmia Center Expertise: Kidney disease, surgery, brain and spinal tumors Expertise: Cardiac arrhythmias hypertension, hemodialysis, and Location: MelroseWakefield Location 1: Melrose Internal peritoneal dialysis Medicine Associates Location: Hallmark Health Medical Appointments: 781-979-3070 Appointments: 781-979-3800 Center—Reading Appointments: 781-944-1228 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Location 2: Tufts MC Community Care—Medford Young Bae Kim, MD Appointments: 781-620-4717 Taimur Dad, MD Gynecologic Oncologist Nephrologist Expertise: Gynecologic cancers, COLORECTAL SURGERY Expertise: Acute and chronic gynecologic surgery kidney disease, hypertension, Lilian Chen, MD Location 1: Tufts MC Cancer kidney stones, electrolyte Colorectal Surgeon Center—Stoneham disorders Expertise: Minimally invasive Appointments: 781-224-5810 and robotic colorectal surgery, Location: Lawrence Memorial Hospital— colon and rectal cancer, Medford Location 2: Lowell General Hospital inflammatory bowel disease Appointments: 781-391-0801 Appointments: 978-937-6258 including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative Diego Illanes, MD, Alin A. Joseph, MD, MS colitis, anorectal disease, rectal prolapse and FACOG, FACS Nephrologist sacral nerve stimulator for fecal incontinence Chief, Division of Expertise: General nephrology, Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center—Stoneham Urogynecology; transplant nephrology, and Appointments: 781-224-5875 Urogynecologist glomerulonephritis Expertise: Urogynecology Location 1: Lawrence Memorial Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital GASTROENTEROLOGY Hospital—Medford Appointments: 781-665-6606 Robert Yacavone, MD Appointments: 617-591-1078 Chief, Gastroenterology Location 2: —Concord Britta Panda, MD, PhD Expertise: Advanced Appointments: 978-287-4788 Maternal Fetal Medicine endoscopy (EUS, ERCP) Physician Location: MelroseWakefield Expertise: High risk pregnancy, Hospital NEUROSCIENCES prenatal diagnosis Appointments: 781-213-5200 Marie Roguski, MD, MPH Location: Melrose Internal Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgeon Medicine Associates Expertise: Diagnosis and HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY Appointments: 617-636-8161 treatment of spine and Jiyuan Sun, MD brain injuries and diseases. continued on back Hematologist/Oncologist Neurosurgical oncology and Expertise: Hematology, expertise in tumors of the brain and spine. Medical Oncology Location: MelroseWakefield Hospital Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center Appointments: 781-979-3070 Appointments: 781-224-5810 John O. Schorge, MD SURGERY Gennaro Carpinito, MD Chief, Division of Gynecologic Abhishek Chatterjee, MD Urologist-in-Chief Oncology; Gynecologic Oncologist Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery; Expertise: Uro-oncology with Expertise: Ovarian cancer, Breast Surgical Oncologist; Plastic special interest in kidney and endometrial cancer, minimally Surgeon; Breast Surgeon; Expertise: prostate cancers, da Vinci Robot- invasive gynecologic surgery Oncoplastic Specialist assisted minimally invasive Location: Lowell General Hospital Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center— urological surgeries, ablative and reconstructive Appointments: 978-937-6258 Stoneham laparoscopic urological surgeries, radical nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy, partial Neonatology experts Appointments: 781-224-5810 nephrectomy, adrenalectomy, radical Tufts Children’s Hospital neonatologists prostatectomy, pyeloplasty, minimally invasive staff the Level II Special Care Nursery at THORACIC SURGERY endoscopic procedures and shock wave MelroseWakefield Hospital, 24 hours a Antonio D. Lassaletta, MD lithotripsy (SWL). day. Site leader: Karen Harvey Wilkes, MD Thoracic Surgeon Location: Melrose Internal Medicine Associates For a full list of the experts available, visit Expertise: General thoracic and Appointments: 781-620-4944 tuftschildrenshospital.org/newbornmedicine. foregut surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, surgical robotics VASCULAR SURGERY ORTHOPEDICS Location: Tufts MC Cancer Center Ashley Rogerson, MD —Stoneham Mark Iafrati, MD Orthopedic Surgeon Appointments: 781-224-5810 Chief, Vascular Surgery Expertise: Spine Surgery, Expertise: Vascular Surgery myelopathy, spine trauma, spinal Dustin Walters, MD Location: Tufts MC Community stenosis, disc herniation, spine Thoracic Surgeon Care, 91 Montvale Ave, Suite 208, tumor/infection, minimally Expertise: Thoracic surgery Stoneham invasive surgery Location: Lowell General Hospital Appointments: 781-620-4702 Location: Agility Orthopedics Appointments: 978-937-6258, Payam Salehi, MD, PhD Appointments: 781-279-7040 option #2 Vascular Surgery Expertise: Vascular Surgery UROLOGY PULMONARY/CRITICAL CARE Location 1: Tufts MC Community Maher Tabba, MD Liyan Zhuang, MD Care, 91 Montvale Ave, Suite 208, Pulmonologist Urologist Stoneham Expertise: Thoracic oncology Expertise: Comprehensive urology Appointments: 781-620-4702 Location: Tufts MC Cancer with special interest in urological Location 2: Lowell General Hospital Center—Stoneham cancers, kidney stones, erectile Appointments: 978-942-2610 Appointments: 781-224-5800 dysfunction, incontinence, male infertility, reconstructive and prosthetic urology Luis Suarez, MD, RPVI and men’s health Vascular Surgery Location: Melrose Internal Medicine Associates Expertise: Vascular Surgery Appointments: 781-620-4944 Location: Lowell General Hospital Appointments: 978-942-2610

LOCATIONS Emerson Hospital—Concord Lawrence Memorial Hospital—Medford Please note that this list does not 133 Old Road Nine Acre Corner, 170 Governors Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 include the Tufts Children’s Hospital Concord, MA 01742 specialists who are rotating through Lowell General Hospital Tufts Children’s Hospital’s pediatric Hallmark Health Medical Center—Reading 295 Varnum Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854 specialty center in Woburn or the Tufts 30 New Crossing Road, Reading, MA 01867 Tufts MC Community Care—Medford MC surgical residents rotating through Agility Orthopedics 101 Main Street, Medford MA MelroseWakefield Hospital. 92 Montvale Ave, Stoneham, MA 02180 Tufts MC Community Care—Stoneham MelroseWakefield Hospital 3 Woodland Road, Stoneham, MA 02180 585 Lebanon Street, Melrose, MA 02176 48 Montvale Avenue, Stoneham, MA 02180 51 Montvale Avenue, Stoneham, MA 02180 Melrose Internal Medicine Associates 91 Montvale Ave, Stoneham, MA 02180 50 Rowe Street, #500 and #700, Melrose, MA, 02176 Tufts MC Cancer Center—Stoneham 41 Montvale Ave, Stoneham, MA 02180 11582 0221