Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association Newsletter Fall '12

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Department of Family Medicine

Alumni AssociationFall 2012

Volume 1, Issue 2

Welcome new members of the Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association Board. They

are:

Jeff Syme 84, Rick Long 89, Tina Duarte 98, Lisa Bowie 01,

Melissa Nothnagle 02, Michael Chin 03, Amity Rubeor 02, Steven Stein

05, Paul George 08, Solmaz Behtash 08, Jeff Manning 09, Jason Salter 09,

Jordan White 09, Philip Salko 11, Kate McCleary 11, Manisha Kumar 12

and Elizabeth Smith.

Officers of the Association include Jeff Manning, Chair; Lisa Bowie,

Vice Chair; Jason Salter, Treasurer and Elizabeth Smith, Secretary.

The board will be sending monthly care packages to current resi-

dents as well as fundraising to support resident CME scholarships and initia-

tives. We hope to have all current residents play an active role in the alumni

association upon graduation.

The first care packagefrom the Brown Fami-ly Medicine Alumni

Association.

Congratulation Graduates, Class of 2012!

Back row (left to right): Jodi Roque, MD, Derek Andel-

loux, MD, Sheldon Malcolm, DO, Matt Hall, DO, David

Dildine, MD, Jennifer Buckley, MD.

Front row (left to right): Christine Nevis-Hebert, MD,

Elise Bender, MD, Brandi Swanier, MD, Stephanie Chow,

MD, Alicia Sanchez, MD, Manisha Kumar, MD, Jessica

Early, MD.

Maternal Child Health Fellows Pictured: HeidiSchneider, MD, Kate McCleary, MD, Sue Magee,MD (MCH Director), Aaron Davis, DO

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Pictured left to right, outside the entrance to our Birthing

Center, Susanna Magee, MD, Director of Maternal Child

Health, Jordan White, MD and Mary Beth Sutter, MD.

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PHYSICIANRECEIVES NATIONAL HONOR FROM THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY

PHYSICIANS

Emily Harrison, MD, has been

selected to receive the national Humanitar-

ian of the Year Award from the American

Academy of Family Physicians.

In addition to her clinical and fac-

ulty work, Dr. Harrison has been a volunteer since2006 with Shoulder to Shoulder, a non-profit deliver-

ing health care and public health services to remote

southwestern Honduras.

She has served as Shoulder to Shoulder direc-

tor of Womens Health and was instrumental in travel

to Honduras.

MARCH OF DIMES AWARDS GRANT TO

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

The March of Dimes Rhode Island Chapter has

awarded a $20,000 grant to the Department of Family

Medicine to support Group Prenatal Care through Cen-

tering Pregnancy as part of a Family Medicine Resi-

dency Program. Susanna Magee, MD, MPH; Jordan

White, MD and MaryBeth Sutter, MD were awarded this

grant. This project is directed at maternal and child

health needs in Rhode Island. It aims to successfully

implement group prenatal visits. The project intends to

improve the adequacy of prenatal care, improve rates of

breastfeeding, reduce smoking rates among pregnant

women and improve patient satisfaction with prenatal

care at the Family Care Center. Over time, group prena-

tal visits are also expected to improve the rates of pre-

term birth and low birth weight babies in the communi-

ty. Additionally, physicians in training will have a better

understanding of the key elements in prenatal care as a

result of facilitating these group visits with faculty sup-

port. The project will enhance prenatal care through

group prenatal visits that focus on maternal education,

behavior change and healthy habits. Studies of this type

of care, based on the Centering Pregnancy model,

have shown that women participating in group sessions

develop significantly better knowledge of important per-

inatal health issues than those receiving the traditional

individual care. Women participating in group visits feel

more prepared for labor and delivery and have higher

rates of breastfeeding compared to women attendingindividual visits. Studies of group prenatal visits have

consistently shown a reduction in low birth weight and

preterm births, even among higher risk groups of wom-

en. This grant is one of many that the March of Dimes

awards in pursuit of its mission to prevent birth defects,

premature birth and infant mortality.


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New Primary Care Track!

Dr. Susanna Magee, MD, MPH and

Dr. Melissa Nothnagle, MD, MSC have had

their paper Low Cost, High Yield: Simulation of

Obstetric Emergencies for Family Medicine Train-

ing accepted in Teaching and Learning in Healthcare.

This article, also written by Robin Shields, RN, BSN

from Women & Infants, is aimed to assess the

feasibility and effectiveness of low-cost simulated

obstetrical emergencies in training family medicine

residents.

Roberta Goldman, PhD and Jeff

Borkan, MD, PhDs paper, Anthropological

Approaches: A Powerful Method to Study and Re-

economics. There will be the opportunity and per-

haps the requirement for a masters degree. The

educational methods will emphasize active learning,

case-based material, and small group sessions. The

clinical experience will be a longitudinal third-year

experience instead of the traditional specialty clerk-

ships. In the longitudinal experience, students will

follow a panel of patients. They will see children

being born, people diagnosed with a variety of dis-

orders and treated with medication, surgery, and

other procedures. By following individuals and fam-

ilies, students come away with the same content as

traditional clerkships but a much better understand-

ing of health and disease prevention. The first stu-

dents may be admitted as early as 2015.

Congratulations to Dr. Borkan and Dr.

George on this great achievement!

Brown University is in the early stages of

developing a new Primary Care Population Health

(PCPH) program. This program will be aimed at

creating the next generation of practitioners and

leaders in primary care and population health. This

plan is being led byAssociate Dean for Medical

Education Philip Gruppuso, the newly appoint-

ed Assistant Dean and Chair of Family Medi-

cine Jeff Borkan and Dr. Paul George.The pro-

gram will have 24 students per class, in addition to

the 120 students per class that are now in the Alpert

Medical School. There will be a separate admission

process and a separate curriculum designed to focus

on both primary care/population health, as well as

traditionally required medical science content. Stu-

dents will graduate with a medical degree but with

additional expertise in topics such as health care

reform and policy, prevention and end-of-life care,

management of provider systems, and health care

Publications

fine Medical Home Models has been accepted for

publication in a Special Brief published online by

the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality

(AHRQ).

Dr. Goldman has also had several other

papers accepted including Talking about medi-

cines: Older adults perceptions of communica-

tionwith their physicians into the International Jour-

nal of Person-Centered Medicine and Television view-

ing and televisions in bedrooms: Perceptions of

racial/ethnic minority parents of young children in

the Journal of Child Family Studies.


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Family Medicine Happenings

The Department of Family Medicine has

continued to hold Faculty Development semi-

nars. Seminars included, Emergency Ultra-

sound for the Family Physician - Parts 1 and 2,taught by Kristin Gregg, MD; Working with the

Challenging Learning, by Gowri Anandarajah,

MD; Point of Care Resources, by Paul George,

MD, the Scholarly Development series by Gowri

Anandarajah, MD and Roberta Goldman, PhD.

and Orthopedic Ultrasound by Amity Rubeor,

DO.

The January seminar will continue with

Scholarly Development. If any alum are interest-

ed in attending, please contact Elizabeth Smith at

[email protected].

The Faculty Development series is di-

rected by Gowri Anandarajah, MD.

Kristin Gregg, MD performs an ultrasound on patient, Eric

Smith, while Tina Duarte, MD and Fadya El Rayess, MD look

on.

Dr. Gowri Anandarajah will be moving on to a new position at Hos-

pice will she will be practicing palliative care. A member of the Brown faculty

since 1992, Dr. Anandarajah will remain the Director of Faculty Development

and also a part of the HRSA Residency grant. She is the Associate Residency

Director for the Department of Family Medicine and served as Residency Direc-

tor from 2008-2011. She is also the Co-Director of the new Faculty Develop-

ment for Global Health Fellowship. Dr. Anandarajah completed her residency

training in Family Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident

in her final year, and her Faculty Leadership Fellowship at Brown. She has held numerous clinical and

educational leadership positions while at Brown. In addition to the ones above, these include her roles as

Clinical Director (Team Leader) of Family Care Center Practice C (a resident/faculty practice) at MHRI

for 13 years and as the Co-Director of the Doctoring Course a major, required course for first year

medical students.

She has been an inspiration to us all and will be greatly missed, but will still be with us on Tues-

day mornings for Faculty Development and other evolving leadership roles!

Visit our website at:

www.brownfamilymedicine.org/


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Please submit any class notes for our futurenewsletters to Elizabeth Smith, Administrative

Manager at [email protected].

Brown Family Medicine Class Notes

Rick Long ('89) reports that

after residency he joined Paul DelGuercio '89 in a

private practice in MA at Westport Family Medicinewhere they worked along with former grads Dennis

Callan '83 and Scott Lauerman '87 for two years. He

then returned to Memorial Hospital to train in the

"new" Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Fellowship

with Mark Loafman '91 that was created and started

by Brian Jack '84 and Larry Culpepper. After finish-

ing the fellowship in 1993, he worked at the Black-

stone Valley Community Health Centers in Pawtucket

and Central Falls, RI with a lot of former Brown FM

grads ultimately as Associate MCH Fellowship Direc-tor and health center Medical Director from 1997-98.

He then joined Brown's Department of Family Medi-

cine as faculty and Director of the MCH Fellowship

program from 1998 to 2006. In 2006, he left Brown

and Memorial for Boston University School of Medi-

cine, rejoining Brian Jack and Larry Culpepper, as

clinical faculty in the BU Family Medicine Depart-

ment. He teaches medical students, FM, OB and

Peds residents in-patient obstetrics, maternity, new-

born and pediatric care.

He and his wife Cheryl have been married 21

years. Their daughters, Dyanna and Mallory, are

grown and both living in Rhode Island. Their son,

Ben, who you may remember as a 2 1/2 lb 27 week

premie, is now a nearly 6 ft tall high school Senior

who is applying to college.

Lisa Bowie (01) reports that she is

married to Victor Lombardi and has 3 daughters, So-

phia 8, Diana 6 and Amelia 3. She has worked atNorth Attleboro Medical center since 2001 and has

been on staff at Sturdy Hospital in Attleboro, MA.

She is a Clinical instructor for the Brown Family Med-

icine Clerkship.

Bernd Laudenberg (09) re-

ports that he lives and works in the beautiful hills of

the black forest in southern Germany, where most of

the Grimm fairy tales originated. Waldkirch is a city of

20.000, his practice is located right in the city center

and his patient panel is growing. He started the prac-

tice in 2009 from scratch and he uses the micro prac-

tice model, which allows him to spend a lot of timewith his patients listening and treating them manual-

ly. He uses diet interventions and counsels his pa-

tients according to the principles of Chinese Medi-

cine, integrative medicine and western medicine. He

loves the way he can offer his patients help and guid-

ance. To stay busy he also does coverage for several

other practices on nights and weekends, which in-

volves urgent care type settings and lots of home

visits.

Two days a week he drives up the hills to a

cancer rehab clinic, where he is in charge of the 15 to

28 years old cancer survivors who spend 4 weeks

with us to regain their physical strength and their

spirits. He says, This work is very satisfying and

intense to me. My team consists of physical thera-

pists, occupational therapists, psychologists, social

workers and nurses, and we make sure our patients

get the attention they need to recover.

At least once a year he is sure to come back

to Providence and Pawtucket to visit friends, teach,

council residents and medical students, engage in

scientific talks and discussions and stay involved with

the Brown Family Medicine Program.

Jeffrey D. Manning (09) a physi-

cian and medical director of

Sports Medicine Associates in

Danielson, Connecticut, is among

a select group of physicians hon-

ored by the American Academy

of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation

for his commitment to education in the field of fami-

ly medicine. Dr. Manning was selected to receive a

2012 Pfizer Teacher Development (continued on

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The Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association wouldlike to wish all of you a healthy and happy

Holiday Season and the best for 2013.

Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Brown Family Medicine

111 Brewster Street

Pawtucket, RI 02860

Award based on his scholastic achievement, lead-

ership qualities and dedication to family medicine.

Pfizer Teacher Development Awards spotlight

the best of our profession: those in active practice

who give of themselves to teach, mentor, and in-

spire residents and students. My congratulations to

Dr. Manning and my thanks to Pfizer for preserv-

ing the noble tradition of the clinician-teacher,

said Mary Jo Welker, MD, AAFP Foundation

President.

In addition seeing patients at Sports Medi-

cine Associates and Day Kimballs Walk-In Center

in Plainfield, Connecticut, Dr. Manning is also a

part-time instructor in the Department of FamilyMedicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown

University and The University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Manning will be recognized for this

achievement during a ceremony hosted by the

Brown Department of Family Medicine.

Dr. Manning earned his medical degree

from Penn State College of Medicine, and is a

graduate of the Brown Family Medicine Residency

Program. Dr. Manning also completed a fellowship

in sports medicine at the University of Massachu-

setts.

I am honored to be recognized by the

AAFP Foundation. I enjoy educating students, resi-

dents, and patients. Teaching is one of my favorite

parts of being a physician said Dr. Manning.

Kate McCleary (11) reports that

she has started at the Primary Care

Center of Plainville in Mass in Octo-

ber. It is still owned by Memorial

and she is hoping to revitalize the

practice, specifically the OB practiceas she just finished her Maternal

Chi ld Health Fel lowship at

Brown. She is delivering patients at Memorial and

working with the residents. She says, Its been a

great start, so far. We are looking to add docs, so

feel free to contact me if you are interested!

Class Notes (continued)

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