Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Family Medicine
Dr. Robert B. Saper, MD
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Robert Saper is an expert in the field of Family Medicine. He went to medical school at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 1 awards "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program". Robert B. Saper, MD has written publications. He has 33 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: '"We're all in this together": A qualitative study of predominantly low income minority participants in a yoga trial for chronic low back pain.' He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- "We're all in this together": A qualitative study of predominantly low income minority participants in a yoga trial for chronic low back pain.
- Integrative Medicine in a Preventive Medicine Residency: A Program for the Urban Underserved.
- Preference and Expectation for Treatment Assignment in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Once- vs Twice-weekly Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain.
- Qualitative study in a randomized trial comparing yoga, physical therapy, and education for low back pain in a predominantly minority population.
- Predictors of Adherence to Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain in a 12-week RCT Comparing Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Education.
- Impact of yoga on depression and anxiety.
- Integrative medicine group visits: a feasibility study to manage complex chronic pain patients in an underserved inner city clinic.
- Integrative medicine group visits and emergency department utilization.
- Kelp use in patients with thyroid cancer.
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Patients with Thyroid Cancer.
- Yoga for chronic low back pain in a predominantly minority population: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
- Zinc: an essential micronutrient.
- Characteristics of yoga users: results of a national survey.
- Prayer for health and primary care: results from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.
- Treating survivors of torture and refugee trauma: a preliminary case series using qigong and t'ai chi.
- Lead, mercury, and arsenic in US- and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic medicines sold via the Internet.
- If you build it, will they come? A free-care acupuncture clinic for minority adolescents in an urban hospital.
- Heavy metal content of ayurvedic herbal medicine products.
- Common dietary supplements for weight loss.
- Prevalence and patterns of adult yoga use in the United States: results of a national survey.
- Embodied health: the effects of a mind-body course for medical students.
- Yoga vs. physical therapy vs. education for chronic low back pain in predominantly minority populations: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
- Inter-method reliability of paper surveys and computer assisted telephone interviews in a randomized controlled trial of yoga for low back pain.
- Three cases of lead toxicity associated with consumption of ayurvedic medicines.
- Bioaccessibility of lead and arsenic in traditional Indian medicines.
- Profile of minority and under-served patients using acupuncture.
- Ayurvedic lead poisoning: an under-recognized, international problem.
- Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.
- Inability to demonstrate physiologic correlates of subjective improvement among patients taught the relaxation response.
- Long-term care. Age of uncertainty.
- Hematopoietic toxicity from lead-containing Ayurvedic medications.
- Comparing Once- versus Twice-Weekly Yoga Classes for Chronic Low Back Pain in Predominantly Low Income Minorities: A Randomized Dosing Trial.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
San Francisco Genl HospUc San Francisco
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Tufts Health Plans
- Tufts PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
Education
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Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1144294307 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SAPER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ROBERT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021184001 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 559.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 4.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 80.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 14.31 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1144294307 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SAPER |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROBERT |
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