About
(Elizabeth) Kerry Gallivan Bennett,
MD, MPH, FACS, CPCC, CYT
When I was a child I would say I wanted to be a student forever. I have gotten my wish.
Here is what the letters after my name stand for:
- MD = Medical Doctorate
- MPH = Masters in Public Health
- FACS = Fellow in the American College of Surgeons
- CPCC = Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
- CYT = Certified Yoga Teacher
- EKG = my initials growing up, given to me by my thoracic surgeon father and critical care nurse mother
A Brief CV
- Graduated Longmeadow High School, Longmeadow, MA 1985
- Graduated Tufts University, 1989, Honors, BS in dual majors (English and Biology); minor in Women’s Studies
- Teacher, 1990 to present
- experience with children, adolescents, residents, physicians, nurses, health care providers, caretakers of family members, women and men
- Hospice and Healthcare Advocate, 1991 to present
- Graduated Tufts University Medical School, 1993, M.D. (medical doctorate) and M.P.H. (Masters in Public Health) General Surgery Residency at Tufts-affiliated hospitals 1993-1999
- Pediatric Surgery Trauma Fellowship 1995-1996 Tufts-New England Medical Center
- Board Certified General Surgeon, 2000; Recertified 2011
- Practice general, laparoscopic, minimally invasive and breast surgery, 1999 to present
- Breast care specialist, 1999 to present
- Reiki Master, 2004
- Integrative, wholistic healing 2004 to present
- Certified yoga instructor, 2005 through Fitness Resource Associates; trauma-sensitive yoga training, 2013
- Co-director, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center for Breast Care, 2006-2008
- Surgical Hospitalist, Jordan Hospital and Cambridge Hospital, 2009-2011
- Breast and General Surgeon, Reliant Medical Group, 2012-2017
- Breast Surgeon, Beth Israel Lahey Plymouth, 2017 to present
- Leadership Training through Coaching Training Institute (CTI), 1 year, completed July, 2009
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), October, 2009
- Medical and surgical volunteer, Olancho, Honduras, 2009 and Guatemala, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
- Author and writer:
- scientific papers and research, since 1996
- The Little Pink Book: What I say to my patients every day, published 2/2008, reprints 2008 and 2009; second edition, October, 2013; third edition, May, 2017
- Stress Less, published October, 2014
- Creator and leader of Radical Self-Care Series, initiated 2012
- Speaker
- self-care
- high quality breast care
- genetics of cancer
- leadership
- integrative health and medicine
- stress, it’s health effects, tools to cope and create improved lives
- Coach, Massachusetts Medical Society, Physician Health Services, 2013 to present
- Internal Family Systems, Certified IFS therapist, July, 2018 (www.selfleadership.org)