Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association

News about your residency...

Fall 2015
Volume 4
Issue 2

Congratulations Class of 2015!

Jeff Manning, Sports Medicine Fellowship

Director, with the first graduate of the program, Amity Rubeor

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
Sue Magee, Director of Maternal Child
Health with Fellowship graduate Julia OatJudge and continuing fellow Ashley Lakin.
Not pictured, Matt Malek

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 legislation 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!

The R3s 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

Sam Greenberg, third year resident tap dancing!

The Duarte-Baird Family performing!

Karl Dietrich, second year Family Medicine resident, has been asked to be
part of the AAFPs 2015 Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute Scholars. 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!

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 Finney 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 OreMicah Allen Fingon.
ney-Schulman
Amity Rubeor 05 has joined Affinity Sports Medicine in East Greenwich after graduating this spring from the Brown Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.
Melissa Nothnagle 02 was awarded the Family Medicine Education Consortium Leadership Award.

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

Joanne Wilkinson 98 reports, Im 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
Joanne Wilkinson
fellowship at BU.
with daughter
Maggie

Life After Residency - The Brown Family Medicine Alumni Association sponsors a

Life After Residency Event each year. This years event took place on September 24 at Dohertys
in Pawtucket. Amity Rubeor 05 spoke on getting your license and negotiating 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 practice, 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
Panelists speaking at the
how to donate are on the next page.
event

Five Year HRSA Grant

The Department of Family Medicine received a five year
HRSA grant Transforming Family Centered Primary
Care for Children and Adolescents in Underserved Areas. 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 students, 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 primary care providers who are: well prepared to deliver patient and familycentered care for children and adolescents; will elect to practice in underserved communities; and will become our future leaders in transforming
primary care delivery systems. Congratulations!

Give generously to the

Brown Family Medicine
Alumni Association
100 % of the proceeds support our
Family Medicine residents

Check out the Brown website:

http://www.brown.edu/academics/medical/about/departments/familymedicine/

Visit the
Brown Alumni Association at
http://gifts.brown.edu and go to Give Now
Once there: Scroll down to the heading "Other
Current-Use Priorities"
Check the box "Other" and type in "Family
Medicine Alumni Association"

Follow us on Facebook
at:
Brown Familymedicine

Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Brown Family Medicine
111 Brewster Street
Pawtucket, RI 02860