Movement Is Medicine

movement is medicine

About Us

The Body Was Made to Move

We are part of the Women's Medicine Collaborative at Lifespan in Rhode Island. We are a group of physicians, physical therapists and other providers who are dedicated to helping people with complex chronic pain. We know, based on animal and human research as well as our own clinical experience, that movement is the key to improving chronic pain. This website will provide you with information about meditative movement for people with chronic pain. Resources are currently available for those enrolled in our clinical trial studying mindful movement for pelvic pain.

MOVEMENT: WHY?

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MOVEMENT: HOW?

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Meet the team

Mariah Stump MD

LINDSAY CLark donat MD

Mariah Stump MD

Mariah Stump, MD, MPH, FACP, DipABLM, ABOIM is an attending physician in Women’s Primary Care at the Women's Medicine Collaborative and a medical acupuncturist at the Lifespan Physician Group, Lifestyle Medicine Center. She is an assistant professor of medicine, clinician educator at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Stump is also an adjunct faculty member of the Mindfulness Center at Brown School of Public Health and she teaches mindfulness courses to Brown medical students and faculty.

Dr. Stump teaches internal medicine residents at The Miriam Hospital's Fain Clinic. She completed her residency at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Stump is very involved in teaching medical students and residents about Lifestyle Medicine and Integrative health and is the course director of the Lifestyle Medicine clinical elective at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University as well the director of the Scholarly Concentration in Lifestyle Medicine and Integrative Health at Brown Medical School.

Dr. Stump is board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Medicine.

Dr Stump is also a certified vinyasa yoga instructor and mindful movement instructor (Shake Your Soul). She is passionate about movement being a form of healing and medicine and that movement is for everyBODY.

Her clinical and research interests include integrative and lifestyle medicine, medical education, fibromyalgia and integrative pain management.

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LINDSAY CLark donat MD

Mariah Stump MD

Sarah Fox, MD, FACOG, is a gynecologist at Lifespan Physician Group, Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Pelvic Pain Program. A clinical assistant professor of surgery at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Dr. Fox received a medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Brunswick, NJ, and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Allegheny General Hospital-Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.

She completed a fellowship in urogynecology and pelvic floor dysfunction at St. George’s Hospital at the University of London in England. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and is a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is a past president of the International Pelvic Pain Society.

Dr. Fox cares for gynecology patients and patients in the Pelvic Pain Program and Menopause Consultation Program.

Her clinical interests include chronic pelvic pain, LGBTQ health, menopause, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), sexual dysfunction, and general gynecology.

Dr. Fox’s research interests focus on complementary and integrative treatments for chronic pelvic pain.

LINDSAY CLark donat MD

Lindsay Clark Donat, MD, FACOG, is a gynecologist at Lifespan Physician Group, Obstetrics and Gynecology and a physician leader for the LPG OBGYN Ambulatory Gynecology Program. An assistant professor of surgery, clinician educator at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Dr. Clark Donat received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. She completed the Brown-Dartmouth medical program and earned her medical degree from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and a two-year fellowship program in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery at Yale University.

She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and has been awarded the Focused Practice Designation in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a member of the Minimally Invasive Surgery and Pelvic Pain Program teams. Dr. Clark Donat’s interests include endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, and the management of uterine fibroids. She welcomes referrals for patients with chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, or who may require a surgeon with advanced skills in gynecologic laparoscopy, robot-assisted laparoscopy or hysteroscopy.

Research

Dr. Clark Donat’s research interests include advancing the care of women with chronic pelvic pain and improving outcomes for women undergoing gynecologic surgical procedures. Her current research focuses on utilizing complimentary and integrative treatments for women with chronic pelvic pain