Hahnemann Family Health Center Faculty

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	Ronald Adler, MD, FAAFP Assistant Professor Director, Primary Care Practice Improvement Ronald.Adler@umassmemorial.org Center for the Advancement of Primary Care University of Massachusetts, M.D., 1989 Family Practice Residency: Hahnemann Family Health Center/UMass, 1992 Areas of Interest and Research: Women’s Health and Obstetrics About Hahnemann: Residents of this program are deeply committed to learning to be providers of superior care to their patients. They are attracted to the health center by the diverse patient population and the excellent support staff. What I value most about Lincoln Street is the full spectrum of family care delivered to people of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
	Lakshmi Babu, MD Assistant Professor Lakshmi.Babu@umassmemorial.org Kempegowda Institude of Medical Science Bangalore, India Internship - UMASS Memorial Family Medicine (Hahnemann) Residency/Chief Resident - UMASS Memorial Family Medicine (Hahnemann) Areas of Interest and Research: Women’s Health, Pediatrics, Teaching residents and medical students, Group visits, Urgent Care & Hospital Medicine Hometown: Victoria, TX About Hahnemann: Hahnemann is a fun, positive learning environment where residents will become great family doctors but also be able to also tailor their learning to the aspects of family medicine that they enjoy the most. Why Family Medicine? The wonderful diversity of patients. The ability to be a part of my patient’s lives through the best and the worst of times. Personal Facts: I love animals and I have a really cute dog named Beanie. I'm into exercise and healthy eating. I also love to cook healthy, ethnically diverse foods.
	Katharine Barnard, MD Assistant Professor Medical Director, Plumley Village Health Services Katherine.Barnard@umassmemorial.org Brown University, Providence RI University of Massachusetts Residency: Umass Worcester Family Medicine Residency - Hahnemann Family Health Center Areas of Interest and Research: Women's health including obstetrics, community health, care of young families, substance abuse, working with urban Spanish-speaking patients, and teaching students and residents about office-based family medicine and obstetrics Hometown: I guess I would have to say Worcester -- I've lived here longer than I've lived in any other place in my life (12 years now) About Hahnemann: Worcester has all the right ingredients for teaching family medicine: a city big enough and multicultural enough to have interesting variety of people and medical problems, but small enough that you can get to know the medical community and the city itself. The Family Medicine department is large and ful of experienced clinicians and researchers who can help to shape a resident's education. Why Family Medicine? I love the diversity of my patient panel. I love helping people through transition times of their life. I love seeing families grow and change over time. I like to be an advocate for my patients. I enjoy doing office procedures and deliveries. I really enjoy my colleagues. They are inquisitive, innovative, empathetic, and community-minded, and they challenge me to continue to grow and learn. Personal Facts: I like to do just about anything outdoors, especially gardening and sailing. I play the oboe, and my favorite show to perform is Handel's Messiah.
	Alexander Blount, Ed.D Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry Director of Behavioral Science Director, Primary Care Behavioral Health Certificate Program Alexander.Blount@umassmemorial.org Wesleyan University UMass at Amherst and Connecticut Valley Hospital. Dr. Blount is a psychologist and is also the Editor of "Families, Systems, and Health, the Official Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare Association", a national organization dedicated to promoting collaborative care between medical providers and behavioral health clinicians. Dr. Blount is also former Chair of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association.
	Marie Caggiano, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Marie.Caggiano@umassmemorial.org Boston University, MD, MPH UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency, Hahnemann, 2009
	Michael Ennis, MD Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Assistant Dean of Student Advising, UMass Medical School Michael.Ennis@umassmemorial.org Williams College (1979) University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1983 Family Medicine Residency, UMass Medical School, 1986 Areas of Interest and Research: Student/Resident Mentoring, Family Centered Maternity Care, Travel Medicine Hometown: The Bronx, NY About Hahnemann: Teaching residents and students feels like a special privilege that I get to enjoy every day. It is definitely one of the top reasons that I have continued to work at Hahnemann for 23+ years. Bearing witness to, and occasionally helping, our residents transform into highly competent clinicians is a blast! Why Family Medicine? My reasons for choosing family medicine continue to constantly morph and evolve. Perhaps, as a student, I initially came to this work enchanted by the idea of caring for the broadest of spectrums: “the cradle to the grave.” Nowadays, it is much more the continuity that I have with my families that sustains my passion for being a family doctor. Caring for extended families, sometimes 4 generations, delivering the babies of women whom I delivered as babies....these things too feel like a unique privilege that family doctors get to enjoy. Personal Facts: I worked as a taxidriver in NYC for several years prior to going to medical school.
	David Gilchrist, MD Assistant Professor Associate Residency Director in Pediatric Health David.Gilchrist@umassmemorial.org Gordon College, 2002 UMass Medical School, 2006 UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency, 2009 Areas of Interest and Research: Pediatric Health, Pediatric Obesity, Maternity Care Hometown: Revere, MA About Hahnemann: UMass has a great tradition of training family doctors in the full breadth of family medicine and preparing them for any future career they choose. Why Family Medicine? One of the greatest parts of being a family doctor is the variety of patients I care for. Personal Facts: I'm an identical twin and I enjoy playing the guitar.
	Gerald Gleich, MD Medical Director, Hahnemann Family Health Center Medical Director, St. Mary Health Care Center Interim Clinical Chief of Geriatrics, UMass Division of Geriatrics Gerald.Gleich@umassmemorial.org Boston University, 1975 University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1984 UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency – Barre Health Center, 1987 Areas of Interest and Research: Geriatrics, Practice Redesign, Chronic Pain Management Hometown: Long Beach, New York About Hahnemann: I love my practice at Hahnemann. It is a well-organized, stimulating environment in which to practice, teach, and learn. I get to work with a terrific group of colleagues on the faculty who are committed educators and talented clinicians. I enjoy working closely with residents helping them grow and develop the skills and confidence they will need for their careers in Family Medicine. Worcester is the birth place of Family Medicine in Massachusetts and the UMass Family Medicine community continues to provide the leadership and support we need to help us train the family physicians of the future, and transform the way we deliver care to our patients. Why Family Medicine? I initially chose to be a family physician because of my political belief that good health care is a right for all and it begins with primary care. Over the years family medicine has been an extremely fulfilling career for me. As I have changed and grown, I have been able to focus my career in different ways keeping me interested and engaged in my work. I enjoy talking to people, and learning about their lives, hearing their stories, and helping them make sense of, and come to terms with the ailments, stresses, discomforts, conflicts, and disabilities they face in their daily lives. I am a big picture person and also enjoy helping to make systems work better. I love being involved in medical education because I believe the physicians I help train today will carry on the traditions and philosophy of holistic patient centered-care that is central to family medicine. Personal Facts: I play the guitar and sing and have written many songs over the years. Some of them are actually good. I enjoy downhill skiing in Vermont in the winter with my family, and cycling, golf, walking and playing basketball in the driveway with my youngest son (the one still at home) in the other seasons.
	Jeremy Golding, MD Clincial Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Family Medicine Quality Officer Jeremy.Golding@umassmemorial.org Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MD, 1987 Family Medicine Residency (1990) and Fellowship (1991); Highland Hospital and University of Rochester Areas of Interest and Research: Evidence-Based Medicine, Adolescent Medicine, Women's Health, Computers and Electronic Technology in Medicine, Electrocardiography, Dermatology, Office Surgical Procedures About Hahnemann: Keeping my teaching current, exciting, and learner-centered is my greatest professional challenge. It is also what I love most about my job. Having been in the private practice of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine for 10 years before coming to UMass, I feel well-equipped to teach in the Inpatient and Outpatient settings. As a medical writer and editor (The 5 Minute Clinical Consult (Lippincott/Wolters Kluwer Health)), I am continually reading and reviewing evidence-based medicine. Many of our residents have chosen to write with me, gaining valuable writing experience. All of our residents come with diverse interests and needs, and they are well-supported by an equally diverse, intelligent, creative, and compassionate faculty committed to resident education.
	Kathryn (Katie) Y. Lee, MD Assistant Professor Kathyrn.Lee@umassmemorial.org Harvard College, 1994 Boston University School of Medicine, 1999 Residency at University of Massachusetts, 2002 Areas of Interest and Research: Reach Out and Read, Health Maintenance and Prevention Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii About Hahnemann: When I considered where I wanted to train in residency, I looked carefully at the faculty and community. What I saw at UMass were smart, caring, well-rounded, and happy physicians who were dedicated to their job of teaching. I thought, “I want to be like them” and thus I chose this program. I am really glad I did. Why Family Medicine? In medical school, I loved pediatrics, caring for adults in primary care, and the beautiful work of the midwives at what was then Boston City Hospital. I could not imagine choosing. After visiting UMass early in 4th year of medical school, I saw how family medicine worked to integrate these areas that I enjoyed and address my interest in public health as well. I am also heavily influenced by my mother who is a Registered Nurse and worked as a labor and delivery nurse, public health nurse at a tuberculosis clinic for new immigrants, and lastly as the school nurse for a K-12 private school where she cared for everyone at the school. I grew up hearing dinner table stories of broken bones to heart attacks to kindergarteners with insulin dependent diabetes. I think Family Medicine is in my blood! Personal Facts: I ran the Boston Marathon in 1999, during my 4th year of medical school. I am a biracial person like our President and attended the same elementary school in Honolulu as he did.
	Christine Purington, MD Assistant Professor Chris.Purington@umassmemorial.org Tufts University School of Medicine Family Practice Residency: UMass Worcester Hahnemann Family Health Center, 1989
	Eileen Rafferty, RN, MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Eileen.Rafferty@umassmemorial.org University of Michigan – BSN, University of Pennsylvania – MSN, UMass Amherst – CAGS School of Education Areas of Interest and Research: Adolescent Health. Psych, Nurse/Physician collaboration Hometown: Flint, Michigan About Hahnemann: I’ve been at HFHC over 30 years and I have seen a lot of excellent physicians graduate from our program. The faculty cares about the residents’ education and it shows! Personal Facts: Looking forward to being an empty nester this year – children 22 and 18 out of the house/in college I love Girl Scouting as much as Nursing.
	Hugh Silk, MD, FAAFP Education Director, Hahnemann Family Health Center Hugh.Silk@umassmemorial.org Harvard University, 1991 McMaster University Medical School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1998 Residency at UMASS Family Practice Residency (Hahnemann Site), 2001 Areas of Interest and Research: Public/Community Health and Oral Health Hometown: Milton, Ontario, Canada About Hahnemann: I left HFHC after graduating but returned after 5 years because I wanted to practice with a group of people that I would trust my family’s care to and that I realized are extremely dedicated to medical education and the well-being of the patients they serve. I enjoy each and every day at HFHC because we continue to look for ways to be innovative with education which makes life interesting and we get to help people in Worcester who are often underserved. Why Family Medicine? I grew up in Canada; everyone had a family doctor. The care my family received is the kind of care I wanted to offer others; care that is founded in the family unit and their cultural and community context, that is practical, patient-centered and yet grounded in evidence based medicine. Personal Facts: I enjoy spending my free time with my family either making good food or outside gardening or hiking.