Wright Center For Community Health’s Kingston Practice Welcomes Two Pediatricians

Press release from Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce:

August 25, 2020

Scranton, Pa. (Aug. 21, 2020) - Board-certified pediatricians Kabir Keshinro, M.D., and Vijay Prasad, M.D., have joined The Wright Center for Community Health’s Kingston Practice, where they will treat newborns to 18-year-olds for sick and well visits.

Dr. Keshinro is a graduate of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, and completed his pediatric residency at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, New York. He most recently served as a pediatric hospitalist and faculty member for The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s Regional Family Medicine Residency Program (formerly known as Wilkes-Barre Academic Medicine). He also has served as an assistant clinical professor for The Commonwealth Medical College, now known as Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton.

Dr. Prasad graduated from Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, India, and completed post-graduation studies in pediatrics at Patna Medical College and Hospital, India. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Prasad completed pediatric residency training at Woodhull Medical Center, an affiliate of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, as well as two years of neonatology fellowship training at University of Illinois, Chicago. He served as an assistant clinical professor for The Commonwealth Medical College (now Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine), Scranton. Dr. Prasad is a pediatric hospitalist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and serves as a pediatric faculty for The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education.

Both Dr. Keshinro and Dr. Prasad are accepting pediatric patients at The Wright Center’s Kingston Practice, located inside the First Hospital building at 2 Sharpe St. To schedule an appointment, call 570-491-0126.

ABOUT THE WRIGHT CENTER

The Wright Center’s mission is to improve the health and welfare of our community through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. This mission is carried out in two complementary entities: The Wright Center for Community Health (TWCCH) and The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (TWCGME).

TWCCH is a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike with a growing network of nine existing community health centers throughout Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wayne counties that provide safety net, comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare, including medical, dental, mental health/substance abuse and Ryan White HIV services, to medically underserved populations regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.

TWCGME is the largest, national Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Consortium that is dedicated to training compassionate, highly skilled physicians in community immersed clinical learning networks collectively striving to address our nation’s physician shortage and related healthcare access disparities.

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This press release was produced by Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.