Primary Care Population Medicine

Dr. Riese is an attending physician with the Department of Pediatrics’ Division of General Pediatrics and Community Health. She is a graduate of Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Medical School, and completed her Pediatrics residency at the Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Brown University program. Following residency, she completed an Injury Prevention Research Fellowship with the Department of Emergency Medicine and obtained her Masters in Public Health from Brown University.

Currently, Dr. Riese directs the Hasbro Primary Care Clinic’s Urgent Care, which provides ambulatory acute care to the clinic’s 10,000+ pediatric patients. In this role, she works closely with Pediatric and Family Medicine residents and Alpert Medical School students. She is the assistant course director for the PC-PM program’s Population and Clinical Medicine I & II which occurs during the student’s third year. She is the assistant course director for the PC-PM program’s Population and Clinical Medicine I & II which occurs during the student’s 3rd year.

Dr. Riese’s research focuses on pediatric injury prevention. Specifically, her interests involve adolescent health risk behaviors, including youth violence, drugs and alcohol use, and sexual behavior, as well as improving doctor-patient communication around these topics.