Cooley Dickinson PHO

09/29/2021

Member Updates

Visit our CDPHO website for an updated list of all PHO members and contact information at http://www.cdpho.org/ (Top right “Find Physician”)

New Members

Michael Abrams, MD
Pediatric Ophthalmology
Opened Private Practice on 7/1/21

Medical School: Dartmouth College/Brown University Combined Program in Medicine 1988

Residency: State University of New York, Buffalo, NY Ophthalmology 7/93-6/96

Fellowship: Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI Pediatric Ophthalmology 7/96-6/97

Jonathan Carlson, MD
Hematology/Medical Oncology
Joined Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson

Medical School: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2006

Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Internal Medicine 7/07-6/09

Fellowship: Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Mass General Hospital Boston, MA

Hematology/Oncology 7/09-6/13


Charles Cho, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology/Neurointervention
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1990

Residencies: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH Diagnostic Radiology & Anatomic Pathology 7/91-6/96

Fellowships: John Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD Neuroradiology & Neurointervention 7/96-6/98

Jeffrey Guenette, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology/Psychiatry Neuroimaging
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: Brown University Providence, RI 2013

Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Diagnostic Radiology MA 7/14-6/18

Research Fellowship: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Psychiatry Neuroimaging 9/16-6/18

Fellowship 1: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Diagnostic Radiology 6/13-6/19

Fellowship 2: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Neuroradiology 7/18-6/19


Liangge Hsu, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 1986

Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Diagnostic Radiology 7/87-6/91

Fellowship: Longwood Program (BWH, BI, B*H, DFCI) Boston, MA Neuroradiology 7/91-6/93


Raymond Huang, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 2004

Residency: Jacobi Medical Center New York, NY, Diagnostic Radiology 7/05-6/09

Fellowship: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Neuroradiology 7/09-6/11

Additional Languages: Chinese


Jana Jarolimova, MD
Infectious Disease
Joined CDMG, Infectious Disease

Medical School: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2014

Residency: Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA Internal Medicine 6/14-6/18

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Brigham & Women’s, Boston, MA Infectious Disease 07/18-6/20


Carolyn Kanter, MD
Emergency Medicine
Joined, CDMG, Emergency Medicine

Medical School: New York University School of Medicine New York, NY 2015

Residency: Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Emergency Medicine 7/15-6/18

Fellowship: Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Emergency Ultrasound 7/18-6/19

Additional Training: Bedside Ultrasound


Martin Krupa, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 2014

Residency: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA Diagnostic Radiology 7/16-6/20

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Neuroradiology 7/20-6/22(expected)

Additional Languages: Polish


Thomas Lee, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology
Joined CDMG, Radiology

Medical School: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2000

Residency: University of Toronto, Ontario Canada Thoracic Surgery 7/00-6/02

Residency: University of Toronto, Ontario Canada Diagnostic Radiology 7/03-6/06

Fellowship: University of Toronto, Ontario Canada Neuroradiology 7/06-6/08


Danielle O’Banion, MD
Family Medicine
Joined CDMG, Hadley Family Medicine

Medical School: Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA 2012

Residency: Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA Family Medicine 6/12-6/15

Additional Training: Transgender care, Complex contraceptive and Reproductive healthcare management, HIV & Hepatitis C

Areas of Special Interest: LGBTQ health, Sexual health & well-being, Reproductive health


Laura Perry, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Joined CDMG, Interventional Radiology

Medical School: Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 1987

Residency: University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA Diagnostic Radiology 7/88-6/92

Fellowship: Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA Vascular & Interventional Radiology 7/92-6/93


Fareed Riyaz, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Interventional Radiology
Joined CDMG, Interventional Radiology

Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 2013

Residency: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA 7/14-6/18

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Vascular & Interventional Radiology 7/18-6/19


Brian Wells, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Emergency Radiology
Joined CDMG, Interventional Radiology

Medical School: St. George’s University, True Blue, Grenada 2012

Residency: Stony Brook University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY Internal Medicine 7/13-6/15

Residency: UF Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL Diagnostic Radiology 7/16-6/20

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA Emergency Radiology 7/20-6/21

Additional Trainings: Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine & Point-of-care ultrasound


Geoffrey Young, MD
Diagnostic Radiology/Neuroradiology
Joined CDMG, Interventional Radiology

Medical School: Columbia University, New York, NY 1995

Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Diagnostic Radiology 7/96-6/00

Fellowship: University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA Neuroradiology 7/00-6/02


Shadi Zaghloul, MD
Psychiatry
Joined Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Inpatient Behavioral Health – New Medical Director

Medical School: Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan 1999

Residency: Al-Rashid Hospital, Amman, Jordan General Psychiatry 7/00-6/01

Residency: University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT Internal Medicine & Psychiatry 7/01-6/06

Fellowship: Harvard University Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 7/06-6/08

Additional Languages: Arabic & Polish

Additional Trainings: Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics (TM, ECT)

Areas of Special Interest: Suboxone for opioid use disorders

New Advanced Practice Clinicians Members

Kelly Buckley, PMHNP
Psychiatry
Joined CDMG, Behavioral Health

Undergraduate: Our Lady of the Elms College, Chicopee, MA Bachelor of Nursing 2014

Graduate Program: Norwich University, Northfield, VT Master of Science Ed in Nursing 2017

Post Graduate Program: University of Mass, Amherst, MA Master of Science in Psychiatric

Mental Health Nurse Practitioner 2020

Areas of Special Interest: Psychiatry, Substance abuse disorder, Geriatrics & Trauma-informed care

Lauren Cerulle, NP
Hematology/ Oncology
Joined Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson

Undergraduate 1: University of California, Los Angeles, CA Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry 2012

Undergraduate 2: Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2015

Graduate Program: Columbia University School of Nursing (New York, NY) Master of Science in Nursing 2018

Areas of Special Interests: Malignant hematology, Stem cell transplant, Palliative care & Geriatric oncology


Lindsey Petrangelo, NP
SNF Medicine
Joined Paradigm Healthcare, PC

Undergraduate: American International College (Springfield, MA) Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2011

Graduate: American International College (Springfield, MA) Family Nurse Practitioner 2020

The CDPHO Board of Directors will meet on the second Tuesday of every other month at 5:30 pm via Zoom until further notice. 

08/31/2021

Wider MRI, Better Image Quality: Cooley Welcomes Its Latest Addition

The tradition of announcing a birth dates back centuries. The earliest newspapers carried birth announcements, and traditionally included the newborn’s name, time and date of birth, the gender and the weight, according to Wikipedia.

The Cooley Dickinson family welcomed its latest addition, a 10,000-lb, 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine July 26, and MRI Supervisor William “Bill” McBride has the “certificate of birth” to prove it. Above, Bill and Kasie Lasserre, Account Manager, GE Health Care, pose with the Certificate of Birth for Cooley Dickinson’s new MRI.

“We are thrilled to announce to Cooley Dickinson and our referring providers that we can now offer patients a more comfortable MRI experience,” Bill says, grinning ear to ear beneath his mask.

The 1.5T MRI, which was delivered on July 26 and has undergone testing for the past few weeks, replaces a 19-year-old MRI equipment that was removed from the MRI suite at Cooley Dickinson Hospital on March 15. Since then, MRI scans were done in a mobile unit on the hospital campus.

A More Comfortable MRI

There are key advances that come along with the new machine. Bill explains that the new MRI scanner is wider and more comfortable, incrementally faster in most cases, and more efficient, and will allow for improved image quality (e.g. higher spatial resolution and/or lower noise with no increase in scan time) across the board.”

Compared to the previous machine, the size of the opening gains 10 centimeters (from 60 to 70 centimeters), or approximately the width of a hula hoop.

“That may not sound like a lot, but that extra 10 centimeters makes all the difference to many of our patients. Before they were squeezed uncomfortably in the scanner. Now they can comfortably rest their arms by their sides,” Bill explains. The new machine can accommodate patients up to 500-lbs; the previous table had a maximum capacity of 350 lbs.

A wider bore and the ability to scan bariatric patients means inpatients needing an MRI do not to be transported to the Amherst Imaging department at 170 University Drive, where there is a wider and newer MRI machine.

Additionally, Bill says he and his team will be able to do feet-first positioning for any body part, including the brain (as you can imagine, some patients don’t like going in the MRI head-first).

More Channels, Better Quality

When it comes to image quality, the higher number of channels the better. Trading up to a newer machine means Cooley Dickinson gained 48 more channels putting us at a 64-channel scanner (vs 16 channels with the previous machine).

“The more channels the more potential to scan more quickly, which gives us the ability to gather higher resolution images,” Bill says.

“As technologists and radiologists, we develop protocols that are balanced between speed and quality. We want high quality images, but we want most patients to be able to tolerate the time of the scan, which has been one of the pitfalls of MRI.” Typically, an MRI can take anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes, depending on the scan.

Bill and his team are excited about what is on the MRI horizon. “We are going to be able to shave our average time down incrementally with new AI (artificial intelligence), deep learning technology that we will be implementing over the next three to six months.”

Congratulations to Cooley Dickinson’s MRI team, and to the many operations support staff at Cooley Dickinson and Mass General Brigham who contributed to the successful completion of the MRI replacement project.

“This entire process has been a few years in the making,” Bill adds. “We are so glad this day has come!”

07/30/2021

Update from Cooley Dickinson’s Department of Radiology

We continue to be on schedule with the installation of our new MRI at the Cooley Hospital campus. By August 5, we will have completed the installation of a new 1.5T GE MRI to include applications training at the Cooley Dickson Hospital campus. Planned first day of normal operation will be August 6. This new MRI scanner will be wider and more comfortable, incrementally faster in most cases, and more efficient, and will allow for improved image quality (e.g. higher spatial resolution and/or lower noise with no increase in scan time) across the board, compared to our current scanner. Additionally, we will be able to do feet-first positioning for any body part, including the brain (as you can imagine, some patients don’t like going in the MRI head-first). In the meantime, we continue to have access to a mobile MRI on the hospital campus while the new MRI is being installed.

07/29/2021

Hospital-Based Urgent Care Re-Opens in New Location

Cooley Dickinson has reopened its Urgent Care at the hospital.

The Urgent Care practice, which closed in the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, provides an alternative to Emergency Department visits for non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses, and in many cases can reduce the cost and wait time for treatment of those conditions. Clinicians working in Urgent Care will continue to see respiratory illness patients in the hospital-based Urgent Care.

The hospital-based Urgent Care reopens in a new space in the West wing of the 30 Locust Street building, which has served for the last year as the triage-modeled Respiratory Illness Clinic (RIC). The RIC was set up to serve acute COVID-19 patients; volume has been winding down as COVID case numbers drop in the region and vaccination rates increase.

Urgent Care clinicians treat cold and flu symptoms; viral illnesses; cuts and minor lacerations including those requiring sutures or suture removal; minor burns; ear and eye infections; respiratory and urinary tract infections; rashes; strains/sprains and minor fractures. Other services include incision and drainage of abscesses and sports and camp physicals.

The reopening brings the number of Cooley Dickinson Urgent Care offices in the Valley back to three, including the now well-established Southampton clinic at the 12 College Highway/Big Y Plaza and the Amherst Urgent Care.

All Cooley Dickinson Urgent Care will now be accessible via a single phone number, 413-582-4400. No appointment is necessary at any of the clinics.

07/29/2021

New Members

Andrew Cronyn, MD
Pediatric/Transgender Medicine
Joined Transhealth Northampton
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) 1996
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, NY) Pediatrics 2000
Additional Language Spoken: Spanish
Areas of Special Interest
Care of LGBTQ youth & children of LGBTQ parents
Chronic & complex medical conditions
Learning disabilities
PrEP provider

Michael Lanuti, MD
Thoracic Surgery
Joined CDMG, Thoracic Surgery
Medical School: School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) 1994
Residency: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) Surgery 2001
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic Medical Center (Rochester, MN) Cardiothoracic 2002
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA) Cardiothoracic Surgery 2003
Fellowship: Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) Surgery 2003

Melissa Matos-Auerbach, MD
Anesthesia
Joined Pioneer Valley Anesthesia
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) 2006
Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA) Anesthesiology 2010
Additional Language Spoken: Spanish
Areas of Special Interest
Regional & Obstetric Anesthesiology

02/06/2020

Member Updates

Visit our CDPHO website for an updated list of all PHO members and contact information at http://www.cdpho.org/ (Top right “Find Physician”)

New Members

Vikram Budhraja, MD

Gastroenterology
Joined Hampshire Gastroenterology Associates, LLC

Medical School: American University of Antigua (Coolidge, Antigua) Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY) 2007
Residency: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Cerner (Bronx, NY) Internal Medicine 2010
Fellowship: University of Arkansas Medical Center (Little Rock, AR) Gastroenterology 2014
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Laurel Knapp, DO

Internal Medicine
Joined CDMG, Hospitalist Program

Medical School: University of New England College of Osteopathic
Medicine (Biddeford, ME) 2011
Residency: New York Methodist Hospital (Brooklyn, NY) Internal Medicine 2014

Areas of Special Interest
Oncology
Palliative Care
Geriatrics
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Robert Redwood, MD

Emergency Medicine
Joined CDMG, Emergency Medicine

Medical School: Rush Medical College (Chicago, IL) 2011
Residency University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) Emergency Medicine 2014
Residency University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) Preventive Medicine 2016

Languages
German & Spanish

Areas of Special Interest
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO)
Sepsis
SEP-1 core measure

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New Advanced Practice Clinicians Members

Catharine Armentrout, NP

Critical Care
Joined CDMG, Intensivists

Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA) Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2002
Graduate Program: D’Youville College (Buffalo, NY) Master of Science in Nursing 2010

Languages
Spanish
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Danielle Gould, NP

Urgent Care
Joined CDMG, Urgent Care & Cooley Dickinson Urgent Care at Southampton

Undergraduate: Salem State University (Salem, MA) Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2011
Graduate Program: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (Houston, TX)
Master of Science in Nursing 2013

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:: IN MEMORIAM ::

We are saddened to learn that Dr. Thomas Kaye of Williamsburg, MA and a former member of CDPHO from 1995 to 2010 died in a plane crash on January 27, 2020.

02/06/2020

Calendar of Events

Managed Care Contracting Committee
Wednesday, February 5
7:30-8:30 am, Rear Dining Room

Primary Care Physician Meeting
Friday, February 14
8:00-9:00am, Rear Dining Room

Monthly Office Staff Meeting
Thursday, February 20
8:00-9:00am, Conference Room B

01/06/2020

Member Updates: Transitions

Jane Cross, MD has resigned from CDMG, Hospitalist Program and has accepted a new position at CDMG, Sugarloaf Pediatrics as a covering P*P effective 12.1.19

Sara Lacasse, PA has resigned from CDMG, Intensivists and has accepted a new position with the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson effective 1.6.20

Emily Lash, MD has moved from CDMG, Northampton Family Medicine to CDMG, Oxbow Primary Care effective 11.4.19

J. Aleah Nesteby, NP has transferred from CDMG, Northampton Family Medicine To CDMG, Oxbow Primary Care effective 11.4.19

01/06/2020

Calendar of Events

Primary Care Physician Meeting
Friday, January 10
8:00 - 9:00am, Rear Dining Room

PHO Board of Directors
Tuesday, January 14
5:30 - 7:30pm, Cancer Center Conference Room

Monthly Office Staff Meeting
Thursday, January 16
8:00 - 9:00am, Conference Room B

CDPHO Annual Meeting
Look Park
Wednesday, January 29
5:30 - 7 pm, Garden House

12/02/2019

Member Updates

Visit our CDPHO website for an updated list of all PHO members and contact information at http://www.cdpho.org/ (Top right “Find Physician”)

New Members

Robert Ajello, MD

Sleep Medicine
Sleep Medicine Services of Western Massachusetts, LLC
(413) 253-2767

Medical School: Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia, PA) 1979
Residency: Bridgeport Hospital (Bridgeport, CT) Internal Medicine1982
Fellowship: Temple University Hospital and Albert Einstein Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA) Pulmonary Disease1989
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Katherine Jarrell, MD

Family Medicine
CDMG, Oxbow Primary Care
(413) 586-9313

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston, MA) 2013
Residency: Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island (Pawtucket, RI) Family Medicine 2016
Fellowship: Brown Family Medicine (Pawtucket, RI) Global Health& Faulty Development 2018
Fellowship: Landmark Medical Center (Woonsocket, RI) Maternal Child Health 2018

Languages
Conversational French & Beginner Spanish

Areas of Special Interest
Maternity Care
Reproductive Health
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John Sheldon, MD

Radiation Oncology
CDMG, Radiation Oncology
(413) 582-2107

Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) 1992
Residency: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) Radiation Oncology 1996
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NP) Brachytherapy 1997

Areas of Special Interest
Brachytherapy
Radiosurgery
Radionuclide
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Aron Slear, MD

Emergency Medicine
CDMG, Emergency Medicine
(413) 582-2363

Medical School: Michigan State University – College of Human Medicine (East Lansing, MI) 2016
Residency: Covenant Health Care & St. Mary’s of Michigan Medical Center (Saginaw, MI) Emergency Medicine 2019
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Bart Soar, MD

Internal Medicine
CDMG, Belchertown Internal Medicine
(413) 323-7700

Medical School: Philipps Universitaet (Marburg, Germany) 2000
Residency: Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield, MA) Internal Medicine 2006

Languages
German

Areas of Special Interest
Addiction Medicine (Suboxone)
Type II Diabetes
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New Advanced Practice Clinicians Members

Laura Quattrucci, NP

Urgent Care
AEIOU Occupational and Urgent Healthcare
(413) 461-3530

Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2004
Graduate Program: Simmons College (Boston, MA) Master of Science in Nursing 2018

12/02/2019

Managed Care Contracting Committee
Wednesday, December 4
7:30-8:30 am, Rear Dining Room

PHO Board of Directors

Tuesday, December 10
5:30-7:30pm, Cancer Center Conference Room

Primary Care Physician Meeting
Friday, December 13
8:00-9:00am, Rear Dining Room

Monthly Office Staff Meeting
Thursday, December 19
8:00-9:00am, Conference Room B