Robert Riviello, MD, MPH
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
Dr. Riviello is the medical director of the metabolic support service and an associate surgeon with the Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also the chair of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda and the Kletjian Distinguished Chair in Global Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Riviello received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, his master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and his medical degree from the University of California. He completed his general surgery residency at Vanderbilt University. He completed the Fulbright International Fellowship in Global Surgery at Centro Evangelico de Medicina do Lubango in Angola and a research fellowship in global surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health. He completed an acute care and burn surgery fellowship, as well as an anesthesia critical care medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Riviello’s current research focuses on delivering safe, effective, equitable and patient-centered care to vulnerable populations around the world. He has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in the field of global surgery. Dr. Riviello has developed innovative platforms for surgical care delivery and curriculums to maximize surgeon effectiveness in resource-limited communities.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology), 2009
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Surgery/ Acute Care and Burn Surgery, 2008
- Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, General Surgery, 2006
- Medical Education: University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, 2001
Board Certifications
- Surgical Critical Care, American Board of Surgery
- Surgery (General Surgery), American Board of Surgery
Languages Spoken
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Maine Community Health Options
- Medicaid RI
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Fallon Health
- MassHealth
- Aetna
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Medicaid ME
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- WellSense
- Cigna
- Medicaid VT
- Tufts Health Plan
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- United Health Care
- Medicare
- Humana
- Senior Whole Health
- Railroad Medicare
- Medicaid NH
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Medicaid CT
- Coventry
- Beech Street
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- TriCare