Department of Family Medicine Alumni Association

Spring 2013 Volume 2, Issue 1

Helping Out a Friend!

Join us on Friday, May 17 at 6 p.m.

at Doherty�’s Pub to reminisce with

your fellow alum and to meet our residents.

Many of you know my classmate, Jenny Souther, MD, MHRI Family Medicine Class of 2002. She was practicing in Cumberland, RI until a couple of years ago...starting in 2007 she developed gradually wors-ening autoimmune lung disease, had to close her practice, and has now been on the transplant list at the Brigham, waiting for a new set of lungs, for more than two years. Her small frame makes it even harder to find a good match.

To boost her chances of success, she�’s now registered with the transplant program at the Cleveland Clinic, which has a much larger program than Boston�’s, but the trouble is, her insurance won�’t cover many of the costs (such as flight to Cleveland in their private jet when her number comes up). So friends and family are setting up the following fundraisers for �“Jenny�’s Lung Fund�”: Sunday, April 21, 1 - 4 p.m. Carousel Grille, 859 Oakland Beach Avenue, Warwick, RI (401) 921-3430, appetizers, entertainment, raffles, cash bar at : $25. Contact Lisa for tickets at bastienl61@yahoo.com

Friday, April 26, 7 - 10 p.m. Diva night at Clayground! $10 admission includes raffles and snacks. Standard studio fees with partial pro-ceeds going towards Jenny�’s Lung Fund. Contact Heather at rhb-heather@cox.net. This will be a BYOB event.

You can also make a general donation c/o Heather Loring (Jenny's sister) at 455 Greenbush Rd, East Greenwich RI 02818.

As Jenny�’s classmates all know, she is the quintessential team player who generously helps out anyone in need, but rarely asks for help herself. Let�’s give her a hand! Melissa Nothnagle

Welcome to our new Interns!

New York Medical College, 2013 Undergrad at UNH, Biology, 2007 During medical school held multiple leadership roles, including president of FMIG and student senate FM Interests: Primary Care Research, Advocacy, Teaching Other Interests: running, hiking, skiing, enjoying the fresh air

St. Louis University School of Medicine, 2013 Bethel College (KS), Psychology, 2009 During medical school, served as co-president of FMIG and Geriatrics Inter-est Group, as well as small group facili-tator for the Applied Clinical Skills course FM Interests: Urban/Underserved Med-

icine, Teaching Other Interests: half marathon training, cycling, vege-tarian cooking, reading, travelling and listening to music

Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2013 Brown University, Community Health, 2005 Taught at Brown in the Doctoring program and the Clinical Skills Clerkship Curriculum FM Interests: Community and Cultural Diversity, Underserved Communities Outside Interests: photography, vegan cooking, traveling and reading

University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2013 Worcester PolyTechnic Institute, Biology Biotechnolgy, 2007 Co-authored an AOA resolution adding sexual orienta-

tion and gender to the non-discriminatory clauses of AOA code of ethics FM Interests: Wellness/Preventive Medi-cine Outside Interests: running, yoga, cooking (especially Thai, Armenian), gardening,

traveling, snorkeling, reading, meditation

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, MD, 2013; MPH, 2012 Vassar College, Chemistry, 2008 Served as chapter president of Amer-ican Medical Women�’s Association and Medical Students for Choice, as well as coordinator of the Women�’s Health elective at UMDNJ FM Interests: Public Health, Advocacy, Women�’s Health Outside Interests: DIY projects, performing arts, cook-ing, gardening, hiking, reading and photography

Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2013 Boston College, Biology, 2008 Prior to medical school, worked at Part-ners in Health and as a research intern at the Division of Global Health Equality at Brigham and Women�’s FM Interests: Global Health, Advocacy Outside Interests: hiking, spending time

with husband and dog

Susan Boisvert, MD

Sarah Buller, MD

Michael Chen-Illamos, MD

David Dick, DO

Laurie Garabedian, DO

Samantha Greenberg, MD

Jessica (Hart) Heney, MD

Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2013 New York Medical College, MSc, Physiology, 2005 Trinity College, Biology, 2003 During medical school volunteered at a student-run health clinic, as well as a student health clinic for elementary-age kids FM Interests: OMM, Underserved Care Outside Interests: golf, basketball, tennis, travel and film

Class of 2016

Tufts University School of Medicine, 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Envi-ronmental Engineering, 2008 Taught during medical school as a facilitator for Prob-

lem-based Learning and Interviewing courses. Also worked with an interdiscipli-nary team from Tufts and a local non-profit to design a community-based water monitoring project for a small island in the Bahamas. FM Interests: Maternal Child Health, Pe-

diatrics Outside Interests: hiking, triathalon and cooking

University of Washington School of Medicine, 2013, Harvard, Biological Anthropology with Health Policy Certification, 2005 Participated in Underserved Pathway at UW and was a Med Students for Choice leader Prior to medical school, coordinated Yale Medical School�’s International Health pro-gram and worked for Gates Foundation Global Development division FM Interests: Underserved Care, Advoca-cy, Women�’s Health, Global Health Outside Interests: politics/health policy, traveling, ath-letics and food

Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2013 Boston College, International Studies, 2007

While at Brown was involved in the Doctor-ing teaching academy and served as an anato-my teaching fellow. Also participated in Glob-al Health experiences in Peru, and Ghana. FM Interests: Global Health, Underserved Communities, PCMH, Population Health

Outside Interests: running, mountain biking, cooking

Tufts University School of Medicine, 2013 University of California at Berkley, Psychology, 2009 During medical school mentored a 10-year-old child on the Autism Spectrum through Project Adven-ture, an adventure-based program developing �“responsible individu-als, productive organizations and sustainable commu-nities.�” FM Interests: Underserved Communities, Primary Care Outside Interests: golf, guitar, music, traveling and yoga

Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2013 Brown University, Psychology, 2009

During medical school served as stu-dent course leader for the pre-clinical Healthcare in America elective FM Interests: Coordination of Care, Primary Care

Outside Interests: sculling, painting models, reading, community service, activism

Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2013 Georgetown University, Master�’s in Physiology, 2008 Syracuse University, International Relations/Biochemistry, 2007 Previously was a graduate fellow at the Institute for Integrative Health where she led a project called �“Conversations in Health�” which explored definitions of health and looked at health attitudes around CAM and Integrative Medicine FM Interests: Health Policy, Global Health Outside Interests: yoga, mind-body medicine, singing acapella, political activism and health policy reform

Katya Jarrell, MD

Bridget Marvinsmith, MD

Gabriel Pleasants, MD

Jeffrey Sorokin, MD

Jeremy Stricsek, MD

Rachel Trippett, MD

Best of Luck!

Meet Our New Fellows!

Please join us in welcoming our two new MCH Fellows, Elizabeth Gomes, DO and Erica Waddington, DO and our new Global Health Fellow, Maria Colon-Gonzalez, MD.

Elizabeth Gomes, DO, is completing her family medicine residency at Firelands Regional Medical Center in Ohio. She is a graduate of OU-COM, and did her undergraduate work at Conn College. Dr. Gomes is thrilled to be joining us as a fellow at Women�’s Care, Inc. in August of 2013.

Erica Waddington, DO, will be our next fellow at Tri-Town. worked as a nurse in gyn-onc at Women and Infants for a number of

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Kenney Research Day - March 15, 2013 Kenney Research Day was held on March 15, 2013. Residents and faculty presented with various talks and posters with the keynote speaker, Mike Magee, MD (Father-In-Law of Dr. Sue Magee), who gave an interesting talk on personalized health planning using Lifespan plan-ning records. Congratulations to all who presented and displayed a poster.

Clockwise from left: Ashley Lakin, MD and Mary Beth Sutter, MD speak on �“Resident Visits in the First Month of Life�”; Mike Magee, MD, Keynote speaker; John Mendelsohn, MD explains his poster on �“Acupuncture and Chronic Pain�”, Renee Robinson, MD displays her poster on �“Soft Tissue Infections After Cosmetic Injections�”, Fadya El Rayess, MD speaks on �“Intermittent Pruritis in Refugee from Equitorial Guinea�” and Dr. Jeff Borkan and Dr. Joe Diaz scoring Cortney Haynes�’ poster on �“Learning From Preceptors in the Clinic�”.

years before entering med school. She will com-plete her residency in Kirksville, MO in June, and will be at Tri-town in August of 2013.

Our new Global Health Fel-low, Maria Colón-Gonzalez, MD is finishing her third year of residency at Hershey Medical Center and graduat-ed from the University of Puerto Ri-co Bayamon Campus, Bayamon,

Puerto Rico.

Maria will join us mid July to overlap with our current fellow, Anna Filip.

Brown Family Medicine Class Notes

Micah Rosenfield, (�‘97) Reports that he and his family are currently sailing around the world on Semester at Sea, where he is the physician for 650 students and 100 faculty, staff, and 'life long learners'. They started in San Diego and end in Bar-celona, with 12 ports in between (They are currently in Kochi, India). Micah reports, �“I have been seeing your usual acute illnesses, with a fair amount of mo-tion sickness and travelers diarrhea thrown in, and I am enjoying being the health educator for the close-knit community. I get to give all the warnings of things that they should look out for when in each port (malaria, dengue, rabies, etc.).�” Micah and his family will be back in the States in May, and welcome anyone who is traveling to Park City, Utah, to contact them.

Joanne Wilkinson, (�‘98) The class of �’98 is planning a 15th reunion celebration in RI the weekend of June 15-16. The details are not final but will probably include a dinner Friday night for '98 grads and then a dinner Saturday night for our class plus others from nearby classes (or faculty) who might want to join us. If anyone is interested in at-tending or being added to the class email list for plan-ning purposes, they should email Tina Duarte at du-artemd@cox.net or Joanne Wilkinson at Jo-anne.Wilkinson@bmc.org.

Ryan Welter (�’02) Ryan remains very proud of his Brown Family Medicine herit-age. Since leaving residency, he has gone on to de-velop Tristan Medical PC (www.tristanmed.com) a multi-specialty group with seven locations in south-eastern Massachusetts. Services include primary care, occupational health, and urgent care with an emphasis on convenience, quality, and patient cen-tered care. Tristan Med plans to add several new locations over the next few years. Although starting a career in Family Practice, for several years doing everything from outpatient and inpatient care, Dr. Welter has since trained extensively as a hair restora-tion surgeon. He has lectured across the globe on emerging techniques and developments in hair resto-ration surgery and has pioneered techniques using growth factors to help stimulate hair growth. His most recent research study uses adipose tissue de-rived stem cells for autologous transfer into the scalp to stimulate hair growth. He and his wife Deana have seven children. He remains active teaching medical students in his office.

Solmaz Behtash ('08) is leaving

Hillside Family Medicine and starting her own mi-

cropractice at 126 Prospect Street, #101, Pawtucket,

RI 02860.

Dr. Jeffrey Manning, Family Medicine physician was awarded the AAFP Pfizer Teacher Development Award on Wednesday January 30, 2013 at a luncheon in Sayles 1. This event included a lecture on "Purposeful Teaching" by Dr. David Anthony and the presentation of this award to Dr. Manning.

This annual award recognizes outstanding, community-based, new family physicians that combine clinical practice with part-time teach-ing of Family Medicine. Award recipients are selected based on their scholastic achievement, leadership qualities and dedication to Family Medicine.

Dr. Manning teachers an Orthopedic Workshop to the Family Medicine Clerkship students at Alpert Medical School and he also teaches Family Medicine Clerkship students in the clinic where he practices at the Day Kimball Medical Group in Danielson, Ct.

Pictured from left to right: Jordan White, MD (wife of Jeffrey Manning), Jeffrey Man-ning, MD, Jeffrey Borkan, MD, PhD, and David Anthony, MD, MSc.

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Introducing the Newest Members of the Family Medicine Tree

From left to right: Ishani Gupta (daughter of Priya Gupta �‘13), Charlotte Grace Le (daughter of Quang Le �’11) , Ariana Anais Roque (daughter of Jodi Roque �‘12), Jacob Steven Pasnau (daughter of Sara Delaporta �‘11), Julia Tamar Finney Schulman (daughter of Risa Schulman �‘11), Thaddeus Lakin (son of Ashley Lakin �‘13) and Kiran Sylvie Stafford (daughter of Jensy Stafford �‘11).

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