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Wright Center for Community Health’s Kingston Practice Welcomes Two Pediatricians
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.
