Scholarly Research
In addition to providing clinical services, family medicine faculty members and residents engage in a variety of research activities. Special areas of emphasis include health behavior change, physician-patient communication, and genetic screening.
Presentations/ Posters
Publications - Articles
Publications - Books/ Chapters
Publications - Online
Awards or Board Service
Residents’s Scholarly Projects
Alto, W
Opinion Leaders Forum on Integration of Oral and Systemic Health Northeast DeltaDental Conference, Concord, NH 4/10/2010
Preparing for an Overseas Medical Adventure “Family Medicine and Community” Health Grand Rounds, U Mass Memorial. Worcester, MA; 5/4/2010
What’s New in Travel Medicine MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. June 2010
Traveler's Health 2010 EHI Symposium East Hawaii Independent Physician Association. Hawaii, HI 8/20/2010
Basnet, P MDFMR in Haiti and Current Development Projects
World Affairs Council of Maine: Summit on Citizen Diplomacy, Portland, ME April 2011
Calkins, S
Review of Recommendations on Cervical Screening MaineGeneral Medical Center:
Grand Rounds. September 2010
Craigie, F
Of the people, by the people and for the people: Spiritual care in the journey of health and wholeness. Sickness, suffering and spiritual care Symposium Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Dover, NH 10/22/2009
Spaces between the notes: The art of healing The Elements of Healing Conference,The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona School of Medicine. Tucson, AZ 2/26/2010
Feero, WG
Personalized Medicine Meets Evidence-Based Medicine Process of Discovery 4th Year
Medical School Course, University of Rochester School of Medicine Rochester, NY 2/4/2010
New tricks for an old tool: Family health history in the era of electronic health records
2010 Dartmouth COOP Project Annual Meeting Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 2/6/2010
Family Health History - A New Partnership Between the Surgeon General and Microsoft Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference, Atlanta, GA 3/2/2010
Health Care Providers and Human Genetic Variation: Between a Rock and Data Overload 2010 Annual Meeting American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Atlanta, GA 3/18/2010
Genomic Discoveries and Personalized Medicine: Necessary but not Sufficient
First AMA-IEEE Conference on Medical Technology devoted to Individualized Healthcare, AMA-IEEE. Washington, DC 3/23/2010
Genomics and Personalized Medicine Pane The Digital Medicine Revolution in Healthcare, American College of Healthcare Executives. Atlanta, GA 9/14/2010
Clinical Applications: The Daily Practice of Genetic Medicine Language of Court-Related Sciences Boot Camp, ASTAR: The Advanced Science & Technology Adjudication Resource Center, John Marshall Law School. Chicago, IL 9/23/2010
Fein, R
With Morse, N. Addiction in the Kennebec Valley Region: What’s the Problem? MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. August 2010
Harmon, K
With St. Pierre S Working with Medical Learners in the Clinical Setting MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds June 2010
Jokonya, C
Project Haiti MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. August 2010
TJB Jokonya Rural Development Trust, Chikomba Zimbabwe World Affairs Council of Maine: Summit on Citizen Diplomacy Portland, ME 04/01/2011
Lutrzykowski, C
Concussion Risks and Outcomes Maine Concussion Management Meeting, Colby College. Waterville, ME 1/10/2010
From Locker Rooms to Disclosure Maine Independent Athletic Administrators Association Annual Meeting, MIAA Association. Rockland, ME 04/10/2010
Moss, BA
Preparing the Pelvic Floor for Labor Convocation 2010 Annual Conference of American Academy of Osteopathy, HIMSS. Colorado Springs, CO 3/20/2010
O’Connor, AB
The relationship between socioeconomic status and chronic disease: Does it matter where your patient lives? Poster presented at the Sigma Theta Tau Iota Chapter Meeting. Nashville, TN. First prize. 2010
The relationship between socioeconomic status and chronic disease: Does it matter where your patient lives? Poster presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties 36th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. 2010
Ross, C
Marathon. The Before and The After Family Medicine Education Consortium: North East Regional Meeting, Hershey, PA 10/31/2010
Pisculli, J
Against Medical Advice MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. April 2010
Seymour, C
Mobile Migrant Farm worker Health: An Elective in Advocacy & Underserved Care in
a Unique PCMH The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine 43rd Annual Spring Conference, STFM. Vancouver, CA 4/24/2010
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker Health: An Opportunity for Service and Learning, Family Medicine Education Consortium: North East Regional Meeting, Hershey, PA 10/30/2010
St Pierre, S
With Harmon, K. Working with Medical Learners in the Clinical Setting MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. June 2010
With Basnet, P Mini Medical School MOA, Winthrop Grade School, Winthrop, Maine 11/3/2010
Teaching 4 Teachers Family Medicine Education Consortium: North East Regional Meeting, Hershey, PA 10/30/2010
The Joys of Teaching Society of Teachers of Family Medicine National Conference, New Orleans, LA 4/29/2011
Woytowicz, J
Medical Use of Marijuana: An Update MaineGeneral Medical Center: Grand Rounds. March 2010
Alto W, O’Connor A, "Management of women treated with buprenorphine during pregnancy." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2011. In press.
Craigie, F Review "Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Global Perspective" STFM Family Medicine V.43 No.6 6/2011
Feero, WGwith Kemper AR, Trotter TL, Lloyd-Puryear MA, Kyler P, Feero WG, Howell RR. “A blueprint for maternal and child health primary care physician education in medical genetics and genomic medicine: recommendations of the United States secretary for health and human services advisory committee on heritable disorders in newborns and children.” Genetic Medicine. 2010 Feb;12(2):77-80.
“Examining the heart of family medicine: family history” American Family Physician. 2010 Apr 15;81(8):961-2
with Guttmacher AE, Collins FS. “Genomic medicine--an updated primer.” New England Journal of Medicine 2010 May 27;362(21):2001-11
with Facio FM, Linn A, Oden N, Manickam K, Biesecker LG. “Validation of My Family Health Portrait for six common heritable conditions.” Genetics in Medicine 2010 Jun;12(6):370-5
with Khoury MJ, Valdez R. “Family history and personal genomics as tools for improving health in an era of evidence-based medicine.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 39 Issue 2: 184-188
with Bonham VL, Knerr S, Stevens N, Jenkins JF, McBride CM. "Patient physical characteristics and primary care physician decision making in preconception genetic screening." Public Health Genomics 2010;13(6):336-44.
with Khoury MJ, Reyes M, Gwinn M. "A genetic test registry: bringing credible and actionable data together." Public Health Genomics 2010;13(6):360-1.
with Green ED. "Genomics education for health care professionals in the 21st century." JAMA. 2011 Sep 7;306(9):989-90
with Alto W, Musgrave K, Gibbons, D, Llanto, L, Holden, S & Karnes, J. "Observational study of buprenorphine treatment of opioid-dependent pregnant women in a family medicine residency: Reports on maternal and infant outcomes." Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2011;24(2):194-201.
"Nurse practitioners’ inability to prescribe buprenorphine: Limitations of the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000." Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. 00 2011.
Perakis, C Soul Sickness: A Frequently Missed Diagnosis” The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association MS #2010-034
Review “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association MS #2011-03
Schneid, J Review "Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th ed" STFM Family Medicine V.43 No.2 2/2011
Review "Voudou Saints. Lessons on Life,Death and Resurrection From Haiti" by Arthur M. Fournier, Project Medishare Family Medicine E Books 2011
Publications - Books / Chapters
Craigie, F (2010) Positive Spirituality in Health Care. Minneapolis: Mill City Press, Inc.
Feero, WG Zazove, P and Stevens, N. (2011) Clinical Genetics (Genomics). In: Robert E. Rakel, MD and David P. Rakel, MD Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders. 1013-1021.
Feero, WG (2011) Genetics For Family Physicians. In: South-Paul, JE, Matheny, SC, Lewis EL. Current Diagnosis and Treatment Family Medicine. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill LANGE. 520-530.
Feero, WG (2011) GENOMICS OVERVIEW. In: Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, FACP ACP Medicine: American College of Physicians. New York: Decker Publishing.
Onion, D (2010) Little Black Book of Primary Care 6th ed, Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Jokonya, C (2011) with Sewall, S. Little Black Book of Pediatrics Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Feero, WG Family history gets an update STFM Messenger, 3/1/2010
Expectations exceed understanding in unraveling the genome ACP Hospitalist, American College of Physicians 3/1/2011Future genomics research aims to be clinical ACP Hospitalist, American College of Physicians 4/1/2011
Don't look now, but you are surrounded ACP Hospitalist, American College of Physicians 8/1/2011
Cancer's cure may be found by using the right diagnostic tree ACP Hospitalist, American College of Physicians 9/1/2011
VanDeusen, J The Joys of Teaching Family Medicine Digital Resource Library, 5/6/11.
Alto, W Member MaineCare Drug Utilization Review Board
Feaga, C Award Recipient 2010 Bill Norton Compassionate Student in International Medicine
Jokonya, C Award Recipient The Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leaders award for outstanding achievements in providing voluntary medical relief and humanitarian service.
Van deusen, J Award Recipient STFM Foundation Faculty Enhancement Experience Award for 2011-2012
Weingarten, N Board Member Family Violence Project
Residents Scholarly Investigative Projects in Process:
Barefoot running: Vitamin D deficiencies in runners & athletic trainers
Prenatal Genetic Screening
Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Resetting autonomic reticulospinal dysfunction in fibromyalgia patients using CV4 technique.
Does Primary Care Keep Patients out of the ER?
Applying Integrative Medicine in Primary Care
Studying the Efficacy of Dedicated Educational Curriculum on POLST Form Completion
Lactation Success and OMT
Women's Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening