Lauren Rousseau, MPAS, PA-C, CCDS, is a physician assistant and lead advanced practice provider (APP) in the section of clinical cardiac electrophysiology of the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals. As a teaching associate of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rousseau makes significant contributions to the training of APPs, medical students, residents, and cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellows.
Rousseau earned her bachelor’s degree in pre-medicine and health sciences in 2011, and a master’s degree in physician assistant studies in 2013, from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
Rousseau cares for cardiac patients preoperatively and postoperatively and assists in procedures in the cardiac electrophysiology lab and hybrid operating room. These include cardiac device implantations, subcutaneous device implantations, leadless pacemaker implantations, cardiac ablations (including the convergent hybrid ablation), and implantation of left atrial appendage closure devices (WATCHMAN and LARIAT).
She is board certified by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants. Rousseau also is a cardiac device specialist, certified by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners.
She is an active member of the Rhode Island Society of Physician Assistants, the American College of Cardiology, and the Heart Rhythm Society. She has published numerous manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented accepted abstracts at numerous national and international cardiac conferences.