Lifestyle Modification
 Peg Miller, MD, FACP, is director of the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is an associate professor of medicine and director of the internal medicine resident rotation in obstetric medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Miller received a medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and completed her residency in internal medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Women’s Health Council of Rhode Island, and serves as vice president for the North American Society of Obstetric Medicine. Miller is board certified in internal medicine.
Her clinical and research interests include lifestyle medicine, lifestyle factors and pregnancy outcomes, the link between pregnancy complications and long term health, and models of care delivery. |
_n-5473.jpg "Courtney McCarthy") Courtney McCarthy, LICSW, is a clinical social worker and intake coordinator in women’s behavioral medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She received her master’s degree in social work from Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island.
Her clinical interests include depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties. She also serves as co-facilitator of wellness programs offered through the Lifestyle Medicine Center.
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 Greg Salgueiro, MS, RD, LDN, IC, is a clinical dietitian, intrinsic coach, manager of the Women’s Medicine Collaborative and program manager of the Lifestyle Medicine Center.
He received his undergraduate degree in nutritional sciences from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from New York University.
Salgueiro is a licensed dietitian-nutritionist in Rhode Island.
He is a certified health fitness specialist with the American College of Sports Medicine and an intrinsic coach through Totally Coached. Salgueiro also serves as an executive board member for the American Academy of Sports Dietitians and Nutritionists.
His clinical interests include alternative and complementary medicine, women’s health, preventive medicine, and sports and performance nutrition.
He works with patients to set measurable health and wellness goals and create long-term lifestyle changes. |
Nutrition
 Katie Lester, MS, RD, LDN, is a clinical dietitian at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She received her undergraduate degree in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Lester is a licensed dietitian-nutritionist in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. She is an active member within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Her clinical interests include oncology, sports nutrition, wellness promotion, and women’s health. She also serves as co-facilitator of wellness programs offered through the Lifestyle Medicine Center. |
Yoga
 Mimi Budnick, 200RYT, CYT, is a yoga instructor in the Lifestyle Medicine Center at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.
She received her undergraduate degree from Rhode Island College and is an adult education practitioner. Budnick has been practicing yoga for more than a decade, and received her Vinyasa teacher certification in 2010 at Eyes of the World.
Budnick recently her certification in therapeutic yoga and has studied restorative yoga.
She has participated in workshops about yoga’s benefits for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Ellen Flynn, MD, is a psychiatrist in Women's Behavioral Medicine at the Women's Medicine Collaborative.
A clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, she received a medical degree from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, completed a residency at University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Flynn also received a master of theological studies degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Flynn is board certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Her clinical interests include perinatal psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and mindfulness-based interventions in health care. |
Massage Therapy
Cheryl McGuinness, LMT, is a massage therapist in the Lifestyle Medicine Center at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and completed her Massage Therapy training at Seminar Network International in Lake Worth, Fla.
McGuinness has been in practice since 1996; and is part of the Complementary Therapies Program in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic at The Miriam Hospital.
Her training includes specialties in deep tissue and Swedish massage as well as pregnancy and postpartum massage.
She has second degree training in the Usui Method of Reiki and is a trained meditation facilitator in the Amrit Method of Yoga Nidra. In addition to the above modalities, McGuinness has training in hot stone therapy and aromatherapy. |
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Services
 Christy Ciesla, PT, DPT, is a doctor of physical therapy at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals and coordinates women’s health physical therapy services at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. Ciesla graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in physical therapy and received her doctorate from Utica College in New York.
She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Cesarean Awareness Network and the Rhode Island Birth Network, and serves as vice chair of the Rhode Island Women’s and Men’s Health Physical Therapy Special Interest Group.
Ciesla is a credentialed clinical instructor and mentors other physical therapists and medical students interested in her area of expertise. Ciesla lectures to colleagues and the community. Her clinical interests are constipation, urinary and fecal incontinence, pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction as they relate to the pelvic floor and pelvis.
Kristina Fitzgerald, LATC, MSPT, DPT, is a doctor of physical therapy at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in athletic training and earned a master of science degree in physical therapy at the University of Rhode Island.
Fitzgerald completed her doctorate of physical therapy at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, where her comprehensive case study was focused on the most recent evidence-based research regarding the evaluation and treatment of female urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and diastasis recti assessment and treatment. She is certified as a prenatal and postpartum physical therapy practitioner.
Fitzgerald has ten years of experience as a physical therapist, with a focus in women’s health.
 Elisa Virgilio, DPT,
graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Keene State College in Health Science
and completed her doctorate of physical therapy at the University of Rhode
Island. Virgilio has trained with the American Physical Therapy Association’s
section of Women’s Health and Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehab Institute and
received her certificate of achievement in pelvic floor physical therapy.
She has a specialty in pelvic
floor physical therapy focusing on women’s and men’s pelvic rehabilitation. Her
areas of clinical interest are pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, constipation,
post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence, sacroiliac and pelvic girdle
dysfunction across the male and female lifespan.
Julia Milner, BS, DPT, MTC, Cert. DN graduated with her bachelor’s degree in biology from
University of Mary Washington and completed her physical therapy doctorate at
the University of St. Augustine for the Health Sciences. Milner has trained
with Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute and received her
certificate of achievement in pelvic floor physical therapy.
She specializes in manual
therapy, pelvic floor and women’s health rehabilitation. Her areas of clinical
interest are pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain, urogynecologic dysfunction,
orthopedic and musculoskeletal related dysfunction. She is a certified manual
therapist and dry needling specialist.
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Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs)
Iris Tong, MD, FACP
Kathy Rebeiro, ANP-BC, AE-C
Peg Miller, MD, FACP
Courtney McCarthy, LICSW
Greg Salgueiro, MS, RD, LDN, IC |
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