Fellowship director Dr. Annette Beyea is offering lunchtime education to providers and staff at MaineGeneral outpatient practices in order to cultivate expertise on managing older adults in the primary care setting. These informal conversations are tailored to practice needs; subjects to date include modification of risk factors for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia; medication […]
Faculty dermatologist Dr. Jon Karnes and MDFMR graduate (class of 2015) Dr. Carrie Griffin are celebrating the publication of their article “Large plaques on a baby boy” in the photo rounds section of the June issue of Journal of Family Practice. Giant congenital nevi are rare; the article presents the differential diagnosis and discusses interventional […]
An article by MDFMR’s Dr. Greg Feero and other members of the Family History Task Group of the National Colon Cancer Roundtable was published as an early view version in the June 3, 2016 online edition of the journal Cancer. The authors discuss the last 10 years of published research on family health history and […]
Faculty and 2016 fellows delivered presentations at the MaineGeneral and Colby College 8th Annual Spring Sports Medicine Update at the Thayer Center for Health. Dr. Jill Sadoski discussed utilization of screening tools to recognize the symptoms of relative energy deficiency in sports (RED-S) in high school and college athletes. Dr. Heidi Woxland explained the physiological […]
The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust and the MaineGeneral Medical Center Auxiliary have awarded funds to subsidize the purchase of desperately needed dental suctioning and lighting equipment at the Family Medicine Institute and Maine Dartmouth Family Practice. Residents at both sites learn basic dentistry procedures under the supervision of a community dentist to prepare for primary […]
Evergreen Sports Medicine Fellowship was well-represented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 63rd annual meeting, May 31-June 4, 2016, in Boston, MA. Dr. Jill Sadoski, 2016 Evergreen fellow, presented her poster titled Lumbar Back Pain in a Cheerleader, and 2016 Evergreen Fellow Dr. Heidi Woxland presented her poster titled Hip Pain in a Snowboarder. […]
Fellowship faculty member Dr. Nate Harmon delivered an excellent hour-long professional development session to MDFMR faculty addressing goals of care, difficult conversations, and POLST (physician orders for life-sustaining treatment). The session is part of an ongoing initiative to improve the integration of geriatric-specific care within primary care in order to improve systems of care for […]
Research by fellowship director Dr. Annette Beyea and colleagues was published in the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s online peer-reviewed journal. The authors’ objective was to provide a description of older public housing residents in Asheville, NC that included the burden of chronic disease and functional health status. Dunay M, Williams A, Beyea A, Galvin […]
Resident physicians Libby Abbas DO and Jen Cavalari DO with faculty physician Jose Ventura MD authored a poster that was accepted for presentation at the Maine Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine. The poster, titled IVIg vs steroid in the treatment of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis was presented by Drs. Abbas & Cavalari in Portland […]
Resident physician Dr. Morgan Daul presented her poster Back pain in the young athlete at the 25th annual meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in Dallas, TX. Her presentation, co-authored by faculty member Dr. James Dunlap, described the diagnosis and treatment of a young competitive cheerleader who presented to her PCP with […]