Please join us in recognizing third year family medicine resident physician Dr. Anita Nwanna-Nzewunwa’s efforts in bringing together the Nigerian community in Maine. Dr. Nwanna-Nzewunwa co-organized the first-ever gathering of Maine’s Nigerian community and was interviewed by the news nonprofit Amjambo Africa!. The interview can be read here: Amjambo Africa! Vol 5 No 6 (starts […]
On July 6, 2022, Daniel K. Onion MD passed away at his home in Vienna, ME surrounded by his family. On that day, the MDFMR community lost one of its most iconic clinician educators. Dr. Onion served as Director from 1985-2002, and after stepping down remained active with the geriatric medicine fellowship. Well known as […]
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Raj Woolever for being selected as the subject of a feature article by the American Academy of Family Physicians in AAFP News. The #FamilyDocFocus feature aims to spotlight practicing family physicians, FPs in academic or administrative roles, family medicine residents, and medical students committed to the specialty who have dedicated […]
Please join us in recognizing resident physician Dr. Kevin Connolly for a successful poster presentation at the 31st annual meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) in Austin, Texas on April 10, 2022. Dr. Connolly’s case-based poster, titled Pain and paralysis: How a former extreme athlete lost his ability to walk, was […]
Please join us in congratulating faculty member Jenny Pisculli MD who was recently selected as the state Oral Health Champion for the 100 Million Mouths Campaign in Maine, through the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health. The campaign, now in its second year, aims to create fifty oral health champions over the […]
Third year family medicine resident Bre Glynn DO created a video as part of a community outreach project to provide education on osteopathy and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). Click HERE to view Dr. Glynn’s video. OMM is a service offered within MaineGeneral Medical Center, to patients at these practices: Family Medicine Institute in Augusta Maine […]
Congratulations to family medicine faculty physician Greg Feero MD, PhD on co-authorship of an article published in the Oct 2021 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, titled “The National Academies’ Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health: Where we have been and where we are heading.” Dr. Feero co-chairs the Roundtable on Genomics and […]
Please join us in congratulating Maine-Dartmouth resident Garrett Fontaine MD, who was recently elected as the resident representative to the Maine Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Marie Dardeno on the publication of a case report in the May 2021 issue of The Rheumatologist, with co-authors Dr. Joshua Sparling and Dr. William Monaco. Their article can be found here: Case Report: Warfarin-Induced Non-Uremic Calciphylaxis Mimicking Vasculitis
Congratulations to current residents Sarah Housman DO and Nate Devore MD, residency graduate Georgia Ballem MD, current MDFMR faculty Taunia Rifai MD, and former MDFMR faculty Alane O’Connor DNP for publication of their research on ocular disorders in children exposed to buprenorphine in utero in the Journal of Substance Use: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14659891.2021.1879293