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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2012

Emily Burke Rivet, MD FACS

Contact Information

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery
  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Am Medical Association

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

Colon-Rectal Surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • anal sphincter repair
  • anal tears
  • anal warts
  • anorectal malformations
  • colonoscopy
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • prolapsing hemorroids
  • pruritus ani
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair
  • sphincter sparing surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • colectomy
  • colon polyps
  • colonoscopy
  • colostomy
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • pilonidal disease
  • removal of colon polyps
  • sigmoidoscopy

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • colon cancer screening
  • colonic polyps

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Hospital Appointments

Maryview

Portsmouth, VA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

08/2008—07/2014

Depaul

Norfolk, VA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

08/2008—04/2014

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

Attending

11/2016—Present

Academic Appointments

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Richmond, VA

Assistant Professor

11/2016—Present