Benign breast issues, plastic and reconstructive surgery
UMass Memorial Medical Center offers a collaborative team of physicians dedicated to the care of women with breast disease—including cancer, benign tumors, fibrocystic breast disease and more.
About Our Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery represents one of the broadest groups within UMass Memorial Medical Center, with 10 divisions on the University, Memorial, and Hahnemann campuses in Worcester, MA. We also provide specialty care through our member hospitals and at clinical office locations in the community.
Pregnancy and Heart Disease
Pregnancy and Heart Disease Clinic
The Heart and Vascular Center offers a Pregnancy and Heart Disease Clinic for women with new cardiac symptoms or known cardiovascular disease before and during their pregnancies. Our cardiologists work closely with maternal-fetal medicine experts to devise a safe pregnancy and delivery plan for you and your baby.
Pediatric Heart Care
The smallest patients require the most specialized medical care. At UMass Memorial Medical Center, we take care of our pediatric patients with a highly skilled team of experts from our Children’s Medical Center in Worcester.
Children from throughout our health care system have access to the hospital’s pediatric heart services.
Pediatric Heart Care in Central Massachusetts
From birth to adolescence, we provide inpatient and outpatient services to diagnose and treat heart murmurs, preventive cardiology needs, congenital heart disease and other heart problems.
Cardiac Testing and Screening
Many diagnostic tests available today can tell doctors if you have heart disease or if it’s getting worse. Your cardiologist will decide which test is best for you based on your symptoms, your medical history and your history of heart disease.
At UMass Memorial Health Care, our patients have access to the latest cardiac tests and imaging technologies at locations across our health system. More advanced tests are available to all of our patients at our Heart and Vascular Center, located at our Medical Center in Worcester.
Pediatric Eye Care
Whether it is routine or highly specialized eye (ophthalmology) care you need for your child, the UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in Worcester is your answer. We provide comprehensive ophthalmologic care for infants, children and adolescents.
Pediatric Endocrinology
If your infant, child or adolescent is living with an endocrine condition, you can count on the UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center.
Conditions We Treat in Central Massachusetts
Our doctors – called pediatric endocrinologists – diagnose and treat a wide range of childhood endocrine disorders, which affect hormones and how a child’s body functions. We offer complete evaluation and management for the following conditions:
Children's Medical Center Services
If your child needs a pediatric doctor, there’s no need to drive to Boston to get care. From primary care to surgery, from heart care to diabetes care, our UMass Memorial Medical Center – Children's Medical Center has physicians, surgeons, nurses and others trained in caring for kids.
Research and Clinical Trials
Under the co-direction of David Harlan, MD, and Dale Greiner, PhD, the UMass Memorial Diabetes Center of Excellence (DCOE) research team is working together to understand the root cause(s) of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and to apply that knowledge to develop therapies to improve the quality of life for those living with diabetes.
Diabetes Education and Nutrition
If you're newly diagnosed with diabetes, we recommend you participate in our Diabetes Center of Excellence education workshops. For best results, combine our group and individual sessions with a certified diabetes careand education specialist (CDCES), registered dietitian, and/or nutritionist. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) recommend at least 10 hours of diabetes education. Medicare annual benefits include 10 hours of initial education as well as two hours follow-up.