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Photo Caption:(l to r) Grace Murphy-McAuliffe, QMC Chairman of the Board, Mayor Thomas Koch, Nissage Cadet, MD, QMC Chief of Surgery, John N. Kastanis, QMC Interim CEO, and Ellen Zane, CEO of Tufts Medical Center, cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of the newly reonvated Surgical Specialty Center at QMC and its expanded surgical oncology program.

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Opens New SuRgical SPECIALTY Clinics

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Offering greater access to care for patients with breast and lung cancer, Quincy Medical Center (QMC) is expanding its surgical oncology program to include two new clinics – one focusing on breast disease and the other on thoracic surgery. The clinics are a result of the recent clinical affiliation between the QMC and Tufts Medical Center. Through the affiliation, three Tufts Medical Center physicians – two breast surgeons and a thoracic surgeon – have joined the QMC medical staff and will see patients in the hospital’s newly renovated Surgical Specialty Clinics. They will perform surgery at QMC on a regular basis.

“We are pleased to welcome our colleagues from Tufts Medical Center,” says Nissage Cadet, MD, QMC Chief of Surgery. “With the addition of their surgical expertise in breast surgery and thoracic surgery, we can better meet the demand from our patients and expand our capacity for these services in the community hospital setting.”

Breast surgeons Roger Graham, MD, and Janice Rothschild, MD, will see patients in the Breast Clinic at QMC. Graham is Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Breast Health Center at Tufts Medical Center. In addition to breast surgery, Rothschild also specializes in general surgery, including pancreatobiliary surgery, minimally invasive surgery/laparoscopy, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery. Thoracic surgeon Laurence Brinckerhoff, MD, will also see patients and perform surgery at QMC two days a week, treating patients with a variety of thoracic conditions, including lung cancer. Brinkerhoff is Chief of the General Thoracic Surgery Section at Tufts MC and is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

To celebrate the opening of the new clinics, QMC hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house in the newly renovated QMC Surgical Specialties Clinic, where a number of surgical specialists, including QMC general surgeons, vascular surgeons and podiatrists, see patients pre- and postoperatively. Mayor Thomas Koch, members of the Quincy City Council, and administration and staff from both QMC and Tufts MC were in attendance.

“This ribbon cutting ceremony represents more than just a celebration of this new space and our expanded services for our patients – though both of these are very exciting and important,” said John N. Kastanis, FACHE, QMC interim CEO. “This ceremony represents the first of many exciting things on the horizon at Quincy Medical Center and a great initial step in our in our affiliation with Tufts Medical Center, the first of many more to come.”