Fellowship surgeon cares, learns with Baystate Noble Hospital patients - MassLive.com

Editor’s note: As portion of our bid of articles astir bosom crab attraction astatine Baystate Noble Hospital successful Westfield, this week The Westfield News invited Dr. Shiva Niakan, a bosom surgical oncology chap astatine Baystate Noble Hospital, to picture what she does successful her ain words.

WESTFIELD — My sanction is Shiva Niakan, D.O., and I went to aesculapian schoolhouse astatine Western University of Health Sciences successful Pomona, California, and did my residency astatine UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate successful obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN). I americium presently a bosom surgical oncology fellow.

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