Dr. Bruce M Becker MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Occupational Medicine
593 Eddy St Providence RI, 02903About
Bruce Becker is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Becker specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Becker participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 1981
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preventive care in the emergency department: diagnosis and management of smoking and smoking-related illness in the emergency department: a systematic review.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation using the cardio vent device in a resuscitation model.
- Ultrasound with topical anesthetic rapidly decreases pain of intravenous cannulation.
- Brief focal ultrasound with topical anesthetic decreases the pain of intravenous placement in children.
- Contraceptive usage, knowledge and correlates of usage among female emergency department patients.
- Are emergency chest pain patients ready to quit smoking?
- Implications of question format in emergency department preventive health knowledge surveys.
- Correlates of women's cancer screening and contraceptive knowledge among female emergency department patients.
- Public health considerations in knowledge translation in the emergency department.
- Women's preventive health service preferences in the Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Department.
- Patients' emergency contraception comprehension, usage, and view of the emergency department role for emergency contraception.
- Emergency department evaluations of non-percutaneous blood or body fluid exposures during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Factors associated with delay to emergency department presentation, antibiotic usage and admission for human bite injuries.
- Predictors of the initiation of HIV postexposure prophylaxis in Rhode Island emergency departments.
- Smoking behavior and risk perception among the parents of infants in the neonatal
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