About Rocco Ricciardi, MD
Rocco Ricciardi, MD, is a board-certified colorectal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical interests include surgical treatment of colorectal malignancies, diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel diseases. He provides treatment options through robotics, endoscopic procedures and other minimally invasive techniques. He is involved in many research trials.
Dr. Ricciardi received his MD degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1996. He trained at University of Massachusetts and the University of Minnesota before joining Lahey Clinic's Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery in 2007. In 2013, he became the Chief Scientific Officer of Lahey Hospital. In 2017, Dr. Ricciardi was appointed Chief of the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Ricciardi has served as Councilor of the Massachusetts Chapter of The American College of Surgeons, Program Chair of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, and on the Board of the Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons. He has an interest in surgical quality and outcomes which harmonizes well with his work in the National Quality Forum. Dr. Ricciardi has authored more than 100 original publications and book chapters and continues to serve on the Editorial Board of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. His clinical interests include surgical treatment of colorectal malignancies, minimally invasive techniques, diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel diseases.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Colon (diverticulosis/diverticulitis, tumors)
- Colon and rectal cancer
- Colon and rectal polyps
- Colon cancer
- Colon surgery
- Colonoscopy
- Colorectal cancer surgery
- Diverticulitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Laparoscopy for colon and rectal cancer
- Rectal cancer
- Robotic Colorectal Resections and Pelvic Floor Reconstructions
- Surgery for Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis
- Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Ulcerative Colitis
- Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM)
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-643-5166
Mass General Surgery
55 Fruit St.
Suite 506
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-4922
Fax: 617-724-1117
Medical Education
- MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Residency, UMASS Medical Center
- Fellowship, University of Minnesota
American Board Certifications
- Colon and Rectal Surgery, American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
- General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
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Research
Dr. Ricciardi's research is focused on improving the quality of surgical care through measurement, outcomes reporting, surgical innovation, and process improvement. He has contributed several key works in the area of population based surgical care, audit and reporting, as well as surgical techniques improvement. Many of these publications aim to push the current standard of care towards new innovation and development of new treatment paradigms for colorectal surgical care. This theme of research in surgical quality harmonizes with his prior work with the National Quality Forum, the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, and institutional quality improvement work.
A second theme of studies includes investigations into elucidating a definitive understanding of the epidemiologic basis for gastrointestinal diseases such as diverticulitis and C. Difficile colitis. Dr. Ricciardi has investigated incidence, pathophysiology, and disease evolution of these conditions. His studies have identified several important findings of seasonal variation and crucial predisposing links to appendicitis for diverticular disease. In addition, further work evaluating optimal surgical therapy for these conditions and methods to reduce postoperative complications is ongoing.