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Robert Riviello, M.D.

Associate Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Steven C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Field of Global Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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 the Kletjian Distinguished Chair in Global Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and serves as adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

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.

Contact
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Division of Trauma, Burns, and Critical Care
75 Francis Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Riviello is a member of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. He is contributing to the establishment of global surgery as a field of scholarship. He has published papers on academic needs and curricula related to surgical training in developing countries, training surgical residents for careers in academic global surgery, surgical conditions and approaches to care in low- and middle-income countries, and other important subjects, such as a study of the impact of the 2010 earthquake on pediatric surgical delivery in Haiti. Also among Dr. Riviello’s scholarly contributions is a chapter on “Surgery in the Tropics” in Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease. Furthermore, he co-authored two chapters, one on infectious disease and one on burns, in Global Surgery and Anesthesia Manual: Providing Care in Resource-limited Settings (JG Meara, CD McClain, SO Rogers, DP Mooney, CRC Press, December 12, 2014).

Dr. Riviello is co-principal investigator of the clinical contribution of HMS-affiliated hospitals to the Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program (HRH), a novel capacity–building program involving physicians from several universities across the United States. He helped to launch Harvard Medical School’s participation in this program in 2012 and is involved in ongoing management including annual recruitment of HMS faculty and building the administrative infrastructure to support faculty development in Rwanda.

Role of collaborative academic partnerships in surgical training, education, and provision.
Authors: Authors: Riviello R, Ozgediz D, Hsia RY, Azzie G, Newton M, Tarpley J.
World J Surg
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Bridging the gap between public health and surgery: access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Ozgediz D, Dunbar P, Mock C, Cherion M, Rogers SO, Riviello R, Meara JG, Jamison D, Macfarlane SB, Burkle F, McQueen K.
Bull Am Coll Surg
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The surgical workforce crisis in Africa: a call to action.
Authors: Authors: Ozgediz D, Riviello R, Rogers SO.
Bull Am Coll Surg
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International medical graduates and the global surgical workforce: the perspective from the other side.
Authors: Authors: Riviello R, Ozgediz D.
J Am Coll Surg
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The "other" neglected diseases in global public health: surgical conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.
Authors: Authors: Ozgediz D, Riviello R.
PLoS Med
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Electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation: the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction by morphologic analysis of the ST segment.
Authors: Authors: Brady WJ, Syverud SA, Beagle C, Perron AD, Ullman EA, Holstege C, Riviello RJ, Ripley A, Ghaemmaghami CA.
Acad Emerg Med
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Scrotal pain and swelling.
Authors: Authors: Riviello RJ, Harris AT, Perez S.
Acad Emerg Med
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Improving Surgical Safety and Nontechnical Skills in Variable-Resource Contexts: A Novel Educational Curriculum.
Authors: Authors: Lin Y, Scott JW, Yi S, Taylor KK, Ntakiyiruta G, Ntirenganya F, Banguti P, Yule S, Riviello R.
J Surg Educ
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Authors: Authors: Riviello, R; Devito, SE; Bedi, DS; Khalpey, Z; Winer, JH; Mawson, AM; Panizales, TP; Steinberg, J; Honthumb, B; Trainor, J; McGrath, KM; Rogers, SO
Development of the Surgical Research Portal: Synergizing NSQIP Data Acquisition with Electronic Medical Records Efficiency
The Role of Collaborative Academic Partnerships in Surgical Training, Education and Provision
Authors: Authors: Riviello R, Ozgediz D, Hsia R, Azzie G, Newton M, Tarpley J
The World Journal of Surgery