Dr. Elizabeth Lokich joins Program in Women's Oncology

Release Date: 07/16/2018

Gynecologic oncologist Elizabeth Lokich, MD, has joined Care New England Medical Group and will be practicing at Women & Infants Hospital’s Program in Women’s Oncology. She is also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  

A graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor of art degree in molecular biology, Dr. Lokich earned a medical degree from The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and fellowship in gynecology oncology at Women & Infants. Prior to returning to Women & Infants, Dr. Lokich worked at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she was also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and board eligible in gynecologic oncology, Dr. Lokich is a member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Lokich sees patients at the Program in Women’s Oncology, 668 Eddy Street, Providence. For information, call (401) 453-7520 or visit womenandinfants.org/WomensCancer.

Care New England Medical Group (CNEMG) is a patient-centered organization with a mission to improve the overall health of our community. With more than 500 physicians and advanced practitioners, CNEMG offers primary care and specialty services at Butler Hospital, Kent Hospital, The Providence Center, the VNA of Care New England, Women & Infants Hospital, and at CNEMG office locations throughout Southern New England. Many CNEMG providers teach at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, participate in clinical trials, and publish research studies in collaboration with other academic institutions. The combination of teaching, research, and treatment keeps the team at the forefront of medical advances in prevention, intervention and treatment. For more information, visit carenewengland.org/CNEMG.

 

 

About Women & Infants Hospital 

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.