Women's Specialty Service Providers

Ghada Bourjeily, MD, isan attending physician in Pulmonary Services and Obstetric Medicine and director of research at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

An assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Bourjeily received a medical degree from the Universite Libanaise, Faculte des Sciences Medicales in Lebanon. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Staten Island University Hospital in New York and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Case Western Reserve University and Yale University.

Bourjeily is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, a member of the Women’s Health Network steering committee of the American College of Chest Physicians, a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and serves as secretary/treasurer for the North American Society of Obstetric Medicine.

Bourjeily is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. Her clinical and research interests focus on understanding sleep disordered breathing in pregnant women and the diagnosis of pulmonary vascular disease in pregnancy. Bourjeily is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

Kathy Rebeiro, NP, is a nurse practitioner in Women’s Primary Care at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

She received a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Rebeiro is a board certified adult nurse practitioner and has been certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

She is a certified asthma educator. Her clinical and research interests include women’s health issues, asthma and patient education.

Erica J. Hardy, MD, MMSc, is an attending physician in Infectious Diseases and Obstetric  Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

Hardy received a medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She completed a residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Hardy completed a master of arts in philosophy and medical ethics at the University of Maryland, a certificate program in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts and received a master of medical sciences degree from Harvard Medical School.

She earned the Edward Collins Memorial Fund award from the Department of Pediatrics at Alpert Medical School for demonstrating a strong commitment to pediatric advocacy and community service.  Hardy is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Infectious Disease Society of America.

Hardy is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics and infectious diseases. Her clinical and research interests include infectious disease issues in obstetric and gynecologic patients, including congenital infections; as well as outcomes, post-exposure prophylaxis and follow-up care of sexual assault survivors.

Silvia Degli Esposti, MD, is director of the Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is an associate professor of medicine (clinical) at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and director of the fellowship pathway in women’s gastrointestinal diseases at Alpert Medical School. Degli Esposti graduated summa cum laude from the University of Bologna Medical School in Bologna, Italy. She completed her residency and fellowship at Brown University.

Degli Esposti is a national expert in gastrointestinal and liver disease and pregnancy. She is the author of many chapters and original articles and has won several awards. Degli Esposti is a pioneer in the field of women’s health in gastroenterology and works at a national level to develop programs addressing the needs of women. She also has been active in the Rhode Island community as an advocate for women’s health. She leads the Rhode Island Department of Health Perinatal Hepatitis Prevention Program, an award winning program caring for pregnant women with viral hepatitis and their children. She was the director of the Division of Gastroenterology and the gastrointestinal disorders in pregnancy clinic at Women & Infants before moving to the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

Degli Esposti is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Her clinical and research interests include liver disease and gastrointestinal diseases in women. She is currently leading several studies in inflammatory bowel disease and hepatitis in pregnancy. Degli Esposti is fluent in English and Italian.

Colleen R. Kelly, MD, is a gastroenterologist at the Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

 She is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a faculty member in the fellowship pathway in women’s gastrointestinal diseases at Alpert Medical School. She received a medical degree from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Alpert Medical School.

Kelly has been an active participant in the Rhode Island Pelvic Floor network and lead the irritable bowel syndrome and motility effort at Women & Infants Hospital before moving to the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is nationally recognized in the field of gut flora and its implication in recurrent c. difficile infection. She has published research and review articles in this field. She is the only gastroenterologist in Rhode Island offering fecal transplantation.

Kelly is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. Her clinical and research interests include gastrointestinal motility disorders common in women such as GERD, constipation, diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome as well as fecal bacteriotherapy for recurrent c. difficile disease and other conditions.

Amanda Pressman, MD, is a gastroenterologist at the Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative and at the Gastroesophageal and Rectal Motility laboratory at Lifespan. In addition, she heads the hyperemesis program at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

She is an instructor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a faculty member in the fellowship pathway in women’s gastrointestinal diseases at Alpert Medical School. She received a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed a residency at Harvard Medical School. She is a recent graduate of the gastroenterology fellowship at Alpert Medical School. During her fellowship she received the prestigious Virology Fellowship Award from Bristol Myers Squibb and the Joe DiMase Award for her research on colorectal cancer screening. Pressman is one of the initial founders of Screening Colonoscopies for Underserved Persons (SCUP), a program offering colorectal cancer screening to the indigent population in Rhode Island. She has published original research articles and chapters in the field of women’s health.

Pressman is board certified in internal medicine and eligible in gastroenterology. Her clinical and research interests are gastroesophogeal motility disorders including pelvic floor disorders, gastroparesis and excessive nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, and colorectal cancer screening in women.

Sara Wriston, NP, is a nurse practitioner at the Center for Women’s Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As well as gastroenterology, she has extensive experience in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and oncology.

Wriston has been an important collaborator in the Perinatal Hepatitis Prevention Program and was responsible, along with Silvia Degli Esposti, MD, for the evaluation and treatment of patients with viral hepatitis at Women & Infants Hospital before moving to the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

Wriston is a board certified family nurse practitioner. Her clinical and research interests include liver disease, particularly hepatitis, and gastrointestinal problems in pregnancy.