MDFMR hosted the Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network’s (NEOMEN) spring 2025 northern district educational program. Faculty from MDFMR’s ONMM and family medicine residencies, with leadership from John Diefenderfer DO, MDFMR’s Osteopathic Education Director, taught osteopathic residents and medical students about OMT of the respiratory system. Presenters included Tom Pentzer DO (ONMM faculty), Caroline LaFave DO […]
Congratulations to ONMM resident Lara Householder DO for placing second in the case study category of the LBORC-NUFA Poster Presentation at AAO Convocation 2023 in Colorado Springs. Her poster was titled Intersegmental sacral dysfunction as primary etiology of low back pain in a college athlete: A case study. This is a huge accomplishment and we […]
Please join us in congratulating John Diefenderfer, DO, C-NMM/OMM for being selected by the Maine Osteopathic Association as Young Osteopathic Physician of the Year at their 2022 annual convention. This award is conferred upon an osteopathic physician new in practice who has demonstrated the potential to become a major force in osteopathic medicine in the […]
ONMM residents joined ONMM faculty and osteopathic family medicine residents and faculty at NEOMEN-OPTI’s fall education program in Bangor. The Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution sponsors regular hands-on training opportunities to enhance the manual medicine skills of both faculty and learners.
Faculty member Dr. Sam Madore returned from a March trip to Olanchito, Honduras, where he joined a diverse group of 40 other physicians through the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation (HHPF) to learn and provide prolotherapy treatment to hundreds of Hondurans suffering with chronic pain. Since 1969, the HHPF has organized trips to provide prolotherapy education […]
As the ONMM team was plodding their way through the long Maine winter, they decided to start a recurring gathering off-site to combat the winter blues together. Their activity of choice for sharing time outside of work? Eating! A dinner get-together to share food and friendship was formed. Meals are based on a creative theme […]
Meet Persis Hope, family nurse practitioner with Maine Dartmouth Collaborative Care Center (MDCCC). She sees patients who are referred by their primary care providers for consults in functional and integrative medicine – “a way of addressing chronic medical issues by looking for the underlying causes of disease,” Persis explained. Treatment involves making dietary and other […]