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To Contact the Department of FM Melly Goodell, MD, Chair: [email protected]

Mike Dwyer, MD, Program Director: [email protected]

Netra Thakur, MD, Assoc Program Director: [email protected]

Sallie Rixey, MD, MEd, Vice Chair; Co-Director of Preventive Med Education: [email protected]

Nancy Barr, MD, Medical Director, FHC and Director of Medical Student Education: [email protected]

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FAMILY MEDICINE WELCOMES CLASS OF 2018

Another Year and Another Successful Match!

The Department of Family Medicine congratulates the new members of our team. We are proud to add these candidates to our

team of family medicine physicians while they embark on their new journey as future leaders!

Julian Barkan, DO, MPH

Philadelphia College of

Osteo Medicine

Grace Cho Wessling, MD

Univ. of Maryland SOM

Jasmeen Gill, MD

Medical Univ. of the Americas

William Jordan Gottschalk, DO Lake Erie College of Osteo

Medicine

Suchi Nagaraj, MD

Medical Univ. of the

Americas

Melissa Nicoletti, MD

Trinity School of Medicine

Ijeoma Okeke, DO

Rowan University School of Osteo

Medicine

Max Romano, MD, MPH Johns

Hopkins Univ. SOM

Class of 2019: Family

Medicine/Preventive Medicine

Jamille Taylor, MD, MPH

Brown University

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FACULTY NEWS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent news

and accomplishments:

Melly Goodell, MD: Newly elected President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). Dr. Goodell will begin her 3-year term May, 2015. Nancy Barr, MD: Appointed as ITE item writer for American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and awarded Community Preceptor of the Year for the University of Maryland, Department of Family Medicine. Matthew Burke, MD: Appointed to Maryland Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Board (2-year term) for a June, 2015 installation. Dr. Burke is currentlyserving out his member-at-large term. Netra Thakur,MD: Appointed to Program Committee of STFM. Tobie Lynn Smith, MD: Co-Chair for violence prevention task force of the National Physicians Alliance.

WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS COVERED AT

FACULTY RETREAT

The Department of FM Faculty held their annual

retreat on March 26, 2015. The agenda included

family medicine residency milestones, curriculum and

didactics, in addition to a population health

presentation by FM Prev Med resident, Richard

Bruno, MD.

In addition, Dr. Goodell facilitated a presentation and

discussion around MedStar Health initiatives that

impact family medicine as well as the broad based

initiative, Family Medicine for America's Health

(Health is Primary), a new healthcare commitment

with the goal of positioning family medicine with

strategic and communication plans to create better

health care and lower costs for patients and

communities.

DR. GORDON CONTINUES WORK WITH

“SHOULDER TO SHOULDER

FOUNDATION"

After leaving the hustle and bustle of Baltimore and landing in Honduras, Dr. Lauren Gordon and a team of colleagues affiliated with the Shoulder to Shoulder Foundation, ascend on a long drive on thin roads winding through mountains, ultimately ending up in clinics housed in small villages throughout the region. Their mission and that of the "Shoulder to Shoulder" organization is to work with communities in the Intibuca region to create and operate sustainable health, nutrition, and education services with equitable access for everyone in the rural frontera of Honduras. For one week, Dr. Gordon once again had familiarity with sparse electricity and limited resources to help people who have had very little or no access to healthcare. Dr. Gordon worked both in the clinic in Pinares as well as hiked to local villages to do outreach care for children in these villages. Welcome back Dr. Gordon and thank you for your continued work in global health.

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DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

BLOOD PRESSURE INITIATIVE IN FULL

SWING WITH PROVIDER-SPECIFIC BP

REPORTS, HOME BLOOD PRESSURE

MONITORING PILOT AND COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT

About Blood Pressure Reports

Matthew Burke, MD is currently training FHC staff on

PopulationManager®, a program that has the ability to

aggregate data from our electronic health records.

The goal is to have the ability to generate monthly

provider/team specific reports for our uncontrolled

hypertensive patients in the FHC. These lists would then be

given to providers/team secretaries and those patients

would be scheduled for follow up specifically for

hypertension.

Congratulations to Dr. Burke whose abstract, “Population

Management for Hypertension: A collaborative project with

AMA/Johns Hopkins Improving Health Outcomes,” was

accepted for an oral presentation at the Maryland Chronic

Disease Conference on Sept 8-9, 2015.

And congratulations to our team on improving blood

pressure outcomes by 11% (68.1% as of Dec 2014) since

the end of FY 2014 (57.7%).

About the FHC Home BP Monitoring Pilot

Drs. Jay Chung, Crystal Peralta and Mike Niehoff in

addition to CMAs, Julie Owens and Leah Schueler, are

facilitating blood pressure teaching clinics for our

hypertensive patients on Friday afternoons once a month.

To date, the team has run nine patients through the home

BP monitoring pilot and we are currently supporting five

patients.

FHC Community Engagement Pilot Work Continues

Avinash Narine, MD and Sallie Rixey, MD, MEd, are

championing community engagement work that includes

facilitating the placement of self monitoring blood pressure

machines with community resource partners in our

catchment area. This pilot will work to identify which factors

contribute to successful collaborations between the Family

Health Center and community partners.

Dr. Richard Bruno

had a very

insightful interview

with President

Clinton for his

public health

leadership class.

Dr. Bruno adds,

"The main part of

my work was to

give people the

chance to have

better stories."

"Mandatory togetherness" at the resident winter retreat

included ice skating! What a great group!

Join Us On Facebook!

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Drs. Maryann Salib, Sallie Rixey, Richard Bruno

and Margarete Everts connect at the American

College of Preventive Medicine Conference in

Atlanta, Georgia in February.

THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE IS FEATURED IN THE WINTER EDITION OF

THE MARYLAND FAMILY DOCTOR

Check out the following link that highlights the work and accomplishments of our faculty, residents and alumni:

http://mdafp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Winter-2015.pdf

- Kathryn A. Boling, MD, FM Alumni, "Physician Heal Thyself. And in the Process Improve Patient Health," page 8.

- Ansu M. Punnoose, DO,R-3 "The Depressed Physician," Page 11; "Happenings at FM Residency Programs" page 25.

- Matthew Loftus, MD, FM Alumni "The Importance of Spiritual Health." page 13.

- Samyra Sealy, MD, FM Alumni, "Burned…?" page 15.

- Katherine J. Jacobson, MD, FM Clinical Faculty, "Dr. Linda Walsh Receives 2014 AAFP Humanitarian Award." page

18.

- Matthew Burke, MD, FM Faculty and Tobie-Lynn Smith, MD, Medical Director, HCH/FM Faculty, Maryland Chapter well

represented at 2014 AAFP State Legislative Conference, page 20.

- MAFP Winter Regional CME Conference, February 21, 2015: FM Speakers include: Amanda P. Guzman, MD, R-3;

and FM Faculty Matthew T. Burke, MD; Nancy Beth Barr, MD, page 23.

- Special Appointments, Honors, and Achievements: Matthew Loftus, FM Alumni; FM Faculty, Matthew T. Burke, MD

and Joyce King, MD, page 28.

Fatmatta Kuyateh, MD, MS, 3rd year resident, shares

her poster presentation at the 48th STFM Annual

Spring Conference in Orlando, Florida in April.

Fatmatta Kuyateh, MD, MS; Nancy Beth Barr, MD;

Claudia Harding, LCSW-C, BCD. FP135 Health Care

Provider Reminder Calls to Reduce Missed

Appointments in a Residency-Based Primary Care Office.