“Family Medicine is an essential aspect of medical care. Family Medicine doctors and providers tend to focus on the entire family. We apply a holistic, preventive approach. By that I mean we’ll look at, not just the children, but also the parents and even the grandparents, or extended family members. The health of one group within that family also can impact the health of the other members of the family. Typically, the preventive things that we look at are screening tests that people know about, like mammograms or colonoscopies. But we also try to take a preventive approach in terms of lifestyle change, like diet and exercise requirements or recommendations. We tend to look at cholesterol and blood sugar as well. Family Medicine doctors, unlike specialists, are people who care about the whole body. We care about not just one aspect of the human body, but the entire body, and we take that integrated approach to the family as well.”
Make an appointment with Berestrand Williams, MD, FAAP
Berestrand Williams, MD, FAAP is a board certified primary care doctor at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients of all ages Monday – Friday. Trained in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Physicians.
After majoring in Biology and graduating with honors from Harvard University, he was awarded his medical degree from the University of Connecticut’s School of Medicine and completed two residencies – one in Internal Medicine at Boston University’s Boston City Hospital and another in Pediatrics at the combined Boston University School of Medicine – Harvard Pediatric Residency Program.
Prior to joining Mount Sinai Doctors, he practiced at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center for nine years and then served as Chief of Primary Care at Concentra Urgent Care and Family Medicine Center. He has been nationally recognized, receiving the Surgical Scholars Award in 1987 and the AOL Foundation Grant: Franciscan Children’s Hospital in 2001. Dr. Williams is fluent in Spanish.