Fall 2015 Volume 4 Issue 2

Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association News about your residency...

Congratulations Class of 2015!

Jeff Manning, Sports Medicine Fellowship Director, with the first graduate of the pro-

gram, Amity Rubeor

Sue Magee, Director of Maternal Child Health with Fellowship graduate Julia Oat-Judge and continuing fellow Ashley Lakin.

Not pictured, Matt Malek

Family Medicine Residency graduates from left to right: C.K. Berkowitz, Carmen Goojha, Krissy Conner, Daria Szkwarko,

Alexis Drutchas, Melissa Mackel, Lauren Goddard, Jennifer Lu, Sara Watson, Jess Huang, Tania Menz, Erin Wisman and Mark

Turshen

Senator Reed Visits MHRI Senator Jack Reed visited the Family Care Center at Memorial Hospital on October 15. In early October, Senator Reed announced his plan to team up with Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri to introduce the Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act. This legisla-tion would help address the looming health care workforce shortage by making it easier for students to pursue careers in health care, with an emphasis on primary care, and encouraging providers to work in medically under-served communities and practice areas of highest need.

Senator Jack Reed with Jeff Borkan, Chair of Family Medicine

Family Medicine Talent Show

April Barnum, first year resident, showing her

cello talent! Sam Greenberg, third year resident tap dancing!

The R3’s singing how they “survived” the Epic and Cerner transition!

From left to right: Jeremy Stricsek, Sam Greenberg, Katya Jarrell, Bridget Marvinsmith, David Dick and

Jeff Sorokin

Karl Dietrich, second year Family Medicine resident, has been asked to be part of the AAFP’s 2015 Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute Schol-ars. The Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute focuses on identifying Family Medicine residents and medical students who display leadership potential but may not have yet served in a leadership role. Great job, Karl!

The Duarte-Baird Family performing!

Brown Family Medicine Class Notes

Jodi Roque ‘12 reports, “My husband Dario is finishing his Gyn-Onc fellowship in July 2016 and just accepted a job back up at Brown! We have enjoyed our time at UNC Chapel Hill. I have worked as the assistant family medicine director and see patients at an FQHC as well as at our main residency site. However, we are very excited to be moving back to Providence and I begin looking for a job as well!”

Risa Schulman ‘11 reports, “I had this new guy on May 1 - Micah Allen Fin-ney Schulman!

Monica Demasi ‘06 reports, “ I have a new job. I'm the academic site director at the Samaritan health services family medicine residency program in Corvallis Ore-gon.”

Amity Rubeor ‘05 has joined Affinity Sports Medicine in East Greenwich af-ter graduating this spring from the Brown Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.

Melissa Nothnagle ‘02 was awarded the Family Medicine Education Con-sortium Leadership Award.

Dr. David Anthony ’00 was named the Editor-in-Chief of the fmCASES.

Joanne Wilkinson ’98 reports, I’m still working at BU and living north of Boston (and part-time in Narragansett, RI) with my 7 year old daughter Maggie. I am course director of Essentials of Public Health, a required first-year medical student course; medical director of the PA training program; and director of the family medicine fellowship at BU.”

Life After Residency - The Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association sponsors a Life After Residency Event each year. This year’s event took place on September 24 at Doherty’s

in Pawtucket. Amity Rubeor ’05 spoke on getting your license and nego-tiating a contract. A panel of Family Doctors (all but one are graduates of the Brown Residency) then spoke on their experiences as a Primary Care Physician in various practices including hospital based, micro prac-tice, Federally Qualified Health Center and starting your own practice. Panelists included Lauren Hedde ’14, Jason Salter ’09, Sara Delaporta ‘11, Keith Callahan, Jeff Syme ’09 and Murray Buttner. Your donations to the Alumni Association can help sponsor events such as this! Details on how to donate are on the next page.

Joanne Wilkinson with daughter

Maggie

Micah Allen Fin-ney-Schulman

Panelists speaking at the event

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The Department of Family Medicine received a five year HRSA grant “Transforming Family Centered Primary Care for Children and Adolescents in Underserved Are-as”. This award is for five years and totals $1,250,000

($250,000 each year). The Principal Investigator is Melissa Nothnagle, MD, MSc, the Residency Director for the Family Medicine Residency. The purpose of the grant is to enhance the training of 1) medical stu-dents, family medicine (FM) residents, and family medicine faculty at MHRI, and 2) community faculty in the underserved communities of Pawtucket and Central Falls. Our intent is to cultivate a workforce of pri-mary care providers who are: well prepared to deliver patient and family-centered care for children and adolescents; will elect to practice in under-served communities; and will become our future leaders in transforming primary care delivery systems. Congratulations!

Five Year HRSA Grant