LeahMcDonaldMD

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

ED Site Supervisor, ED-Embedded Palliative Medicine Programs

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Dr. Leah McDonald is an emergency medicine physician in North Providence, RI and is affiliated with Falmouth Hospital. She received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and has been in practice 9 years. She specializes in hospice & palliative medicine and is experienced in hospice and palliative medicine and emergency medicine. She has 7 publications and over 350 citings.

PubMed

279 citations
Alterations in brain structure and functional connectivity in prescription opioid-dependent patients
Jaymin Upadhyay, Nasim Maleki, Jennifer Sharpe Potter, Igor Elman, David Rudrauf
Brain. 2010-07-01
12 citations
The impact of drug use in social networks of patients with substance use and bipolar disorders
Leah J. McDonald, Margaret L. Griffin, Monika E. Kolodziej, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Roger D. Weiss
The American Journal on Addictions. 2011-02-01
29 citations
A randomized trial of transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation as adjunctive treatment for opioid detoxification
Christina S. Meade, Scott E. Lukas, Leah J. McDonald, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Jessica A. Eldridge
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2010-01-01

HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative SkillsFebruary 21st, 2024
The Miriam Hospital Integrates Palliative, Emergency Care ProgramMay 5th, 2023