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Present	Obstetrics & Gynecology Department, Baystate Health
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Present	Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Medicine and Health Sciences

Council on Residency Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education—1998, 2005
Ethel Weinberg Family Prize for Academic Excellence—2005
William V. Zussman Award for Excellence in Resident Education, presented by the Baystate Medical Center Senior Residents—2006

Baystate Education & Research

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Springfield, MA 01199
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Examination of ancestral informative markers and self-reported race with tumor characteristics of breast cancer among Black and White women (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

African American (AA) women have a higher mortality from breast cancer (BC) compared to European American (EA) women. This may be due to the higher proportion of AA women with tumors that are diagnosed at ...

The practice of medicine-waste reduction, medical liability, and the R word (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

LegalEase-Informed consent-sometimes its not all that easy (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Patient satisfaction-a health care metric that is moving front and center (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Estrogen-related genes and their contribution to racial differences in breast cancer risk (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Racial differences in breast cancer risk, including the risks of hormone receptor subtypes of breast cancer, have been previously reported. We evaluated whether variation in genes related to estrogen metabolism (COMT, CYP1A1, CYP1B1, CYP17A1, CYP19A1, ...

Estrogen-related genes and their contribution to racial differences in breast cancer risk. (Kerryn W. Reding, Chu Chen, Kimberly A. Lowe, et al.) Cancer Causes and Control (2012)

Patient-centered care-a new and challenging paradigm in health care (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Oral contraceptive formulation and risk of breast cancer (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

BACKGROUND: While evidence on the association between oral contraceptive (OC) use and breast cancer generally suggests little or no increased risk, the question of whether breast cancer risk varies by OC formulation remains controversial. Few ...

Oral contraceptive formulation and risk of breast cancer. (Polly A. Marchbanks, Katheryn M. Curtis, Michele G. Mandel, et al.) Contraception (2012)

An oldster teaches youngsters new tricks-the role of W. Edwards Deming in health care improvement (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

LegalEase-Clinical decision making and diagnostic errors (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

PROLOG: Patient Management in the Office (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Doctor, who is going to take care of me when you leave? (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Fifty years of "the Pill": Risk reduction and discovery of benefits beyond contraception, reflections, and forecast (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Widely regarded as a revolutionary drug in its early years, "the pill" may be considered the first designer or lifestyle drug. Approximately 85% of women in the United States will use an oral contraceptive (OC) ...

Don't forget to tighten your belt, Medicaid growth and payment reform are on the way (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

LegalEase-Reentry into practice: no easy path (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Does antidepressant use attenuate the risk of a major depressive episode in pregnancy? (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

BACKGROUND: Many women become pregnant while undergoing antidepressant treatment and are concerned about continuing antidepressant medication. However, antidepressant discontinuation may increase the risk of a new episode of major depressive disorder. We sought to estimate ...

LARC methods-It makes sense or increase use! (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Making it work: Successful collaborative practice (Susan DeJoy, Ronald Burkman, Barbara Graves, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2011)

There are three major examples of collaborative programs between certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and obstetrician-gynecologists at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. One program is a midwifery practice that ...

Obesity and survival among black women and white women 35 to 64 years of age at diagnosis with invasive breast cancer (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of obesity on survival among black women and white women with invasive breast cancer and to determine whether obesity explains the poorer survival of black women relative to white women. ...

The evolution of combined oral contraception: improving the risk-to-benefit ratio (Ronald Burkman and Carrie Bell) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Since its introduction in 1960, the combined oral contraceptive (COC) pill has become one of the most widely and frequently used methods of contraception worldwide. Although highly effective, early COC formulations were associated with significant ...

A Comparison of Obstetric Maneuvers for the Acute Management of Shoulder Dystocia (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of obstetric maneuvers for resolving shoulder dystocia and the effect that these maneuvers have on neonatal injury when shoulder dystocia occurs. METHODS: Using an electronic database encompassing 206,969 deliveries, we ...

LegalEASE-Sleep deprivation: It's not just an issue with residents (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)

VTE and OCs with dospirenone-Proceed with caution (Ronald Burkman) All Scholarly Works (2011)