Annually since 2014, faculty and residents from Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency travel to Honduras to provide primary care services in Colomancagua and five surrounding communities. Faculty physicians Julia McDonald and Jenny Pisculli delivered a presentation at the AAFP Global Health Summit in Albuquerque recently to share information about how this opportunity was created and cultivated; […]
Second year resident physician Dr. Rachel Criswell delivered an invited presentation in West Palm Beach, FL on her work in toxicants and breast milk composition. Her talk “Persistent environmental toxicants in human health outcomes” was given at a Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) scientific research conference dedicated to the science of human […]
Maine Dartmouth Sports Medicine Fellowship faculty and fellows presented at the 11th annual spring symposium, an event that is part of the MaineGeneral Health & Colby College sports medicine collaborative education series. The half day program was held May 8 2019 at MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Alfond Center for Health in Augusta. Geared towards athletic trainers, […]
Congratulations to Maine-Dartmouth faculty member Dr. Julia McDonald for being honored by the Maine Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) as Maine’s Family Physician of the Year! Dr. McDonald’s nomination specifically notes her perseverance, depth, passion, and dedication for her patients. “She actually listens…She meets patients in the moment, on their ground, and develops a plan […]
We wish to recognize our University of New England pharmacy colleague Dr. Dan Mickool for being selected to serve on the policy development working group of the Global Confederation for Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice. Dr. Mickool is the only pharmacist chosen, and one of 5 Americans among 35 international work group members. The policy […]
We wish to recognize a publication this week in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by two physicians from the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency. Cheryl Seymour MD, faculty at the residency, and Carrie Griffin DO, a 2015 residency alum, have written a case analysis entitled: “Structural Differential – A 32 Year Old Man with […]
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.
Huge congratulations to Maine-Dartmouth faculty member Dr. Jenny Pisculli for being the recipient of MaineGeneral’s AWESOME award: “Jenny Pisculli, MD, a physician with Maine Dartmouth Family Practice and also a hospitalist at the Alfond Center for Health, recently received MaineGeneral’s AWESOME (Award-Winning Exemplary Scholar of Medical Excellence) Award for the excellent care she provides, her […]
MDFMR faculty Kelley Harmon DO and Alane O’Connor DNP delivered a presentation on the integrated care of opioid dependent women and their infants at the Maine Public Health Association’s annual conference on Oct 16, 2018, which focused on addiction and the state of public health in Maine. They discussed evidence based screening for substance use […]
Dr. Elizabeth “Libby” Abbas was selected as the 2018 recipient of the “Dr. Russell DeJong Excellence in Scholarship” award at MDFMR’s Scholarly Activity Symposium. Dr. Abbas’s presentation, IVIg vs Steroid in the Treatment of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis, described a patient case which had been presented as a poster at the Maine Chapter of the Society of Hospital […]