Mari Bentley, MD, MPH Mari.Bentley@bmc.org Dr. Bentley practices at East Boston
Neighborhood Health Center. She has a special interest
in caring for immigrant families, and she speaks
Spanish, French, and Arabic. She also has a special
interest in women's reproductive health. She received
her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a
Master's of Public Health from Boston University. She
completed medical school at the University of
Massachusetts and residency at Brown
University/Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. Dr.
Bentley's extracurricular interests include playing
with playdough and Lego, as directed by her three
children, Zoe (9), Oliver (2), and Anna (1).
Ethan Brackett, MD Ethan.Brackett@bmc.org
Hailing from the progressive streets of
Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA, Ethan Brackett came to
us from the University of Massachusetts Medical School
in 1999 as a member of the first class of Boston
Medical Center Family Medicine residents. While in
residency, Ethan worked in Brazil, Haiti and Cape
Verde, headed up the local residents’ union, and added
Haitian Creole to the list of languages (including
Spanish and Portuguese) he uses daily with his
patients in Boston. Now full-fledged faculty at Codman
Square Health Center, Ethan practices obstetrics,
precepts residents and students, coordinates elective
rotations, and works on improving the EMR. His
interests include obesity, office procedures,
international medicine and health advocacy. He still
finds time to dabble in world travel, running, and
home improvement.
Mary C. Cerreto, PhD Mcerreto@aol.com Dr. Cerreto, a clinical psychologist,
graduated from the University of Washington and
completed her internship in Medical Psychology at the
Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA. She has been Chief
of Pediatric Psychology at the University of Texas
Medical Branch, Chief Psychologist for Primary Care at
Vanderbilt, Director of Psychology at Franciscan
Children's Hospital and Assistant Commissioner of the
Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation. Dr.
Cerreto is a fellow of the American Association on
Mental Retardation, the Academy on Mental Retardation,
and the American Psychological Association and a
member of the STFM Group on Disabilities. She is
director of the Department's Center on
Self-Determination and Health, a research program
committed to the elimination of health disparities of
people with disabilities. Funding from the Centers on
Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS Administration on
Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services and the Deborah Munroe Noonan
Memorial Fund support research in community health
promotion interventions, health supports and access,
and consumer-direction in health care for people with
disabilities, especially for teen-agers transitioning
from school to adulthood. She is currently Principal
Investigator for Special Olympics Healthy Athletes
program involving the largest database on the health
of people with intellectual disabilities in the world.
Multiple opportunities exist for Family Medicine
residents and fellows to participate in this research
program.
V.K.Chetty, PhD -
Research Professor Vk.Chetty@bmc.org Dr. Chetty
is a health economist and a statistician. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He has been a professor of economics in Columbia
University, New York and the Indian Statistical
Institute, New Delhi, India. His research interests
are in medical decision-making taking costs into
account and reducing medical errors. He is working on
cost-effective management of Diabetes using sequential
statistical methods and complex adaptive systems
approach. He has been a consultant to the United
Nations and the World Bank.
Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH -
Chairman Larry.Culpepper@bmc.org Dr. Culpepper is the founding Chairman of
the Department of Family Medicine. He received his
M.D from Baylor College of Medicine and his M.P.H.
from Boston University. He has served as President of
the North American Primary Care Group (NAPCRG),
Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of
Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), and Chairman of
the Board of Rhode Island Public Health Foundation.
He is a Primary Care Fellow of the Federal Health
Resources and Services Administration, and has
chaired or served as a member of research grant
review committees for 5 NIH and other federal
agencies. He has received the STFM Excellence in
Education, the STFM-NAPCRG Hames Research awards, and
was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1998. He
has conducted research in otitis media, and
school-based and community interventions to improve
pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies.
He currently is the principal investigator of an AHRQ
funded center for patient safety research devoted to
low income and minority vulnerable populations in
ambulatory care settings, principal investigator of
interventions to improve the care of uninsured
patients and urban patients with diabetes and
depression, co-principal investigator of a study to
decrease delays in CHC patient follow-up for abnormal
mammography, and co-investigator of a long term study
of the course of anxiety disorders in primary care
settings. Dr Culpepper co-chairs a panel on Otitis
Media with Effusion for the American Academy of
Family Physicians, the American Academy of
Pediatrics, and the American Academy of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and is a member
of the AAP-AAFP panel on acute otitis media. He is
the family medicine editor of UpToDate, and
the editor of the Journal of Clinical
Psychiatry Primary Care Companion.
Shawn Ferullo, MD Shawn.Ferullo@bmc.org Our program's first "Triple Terrier," Shawn
graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with
a BS in Psychology. Ice skating since the age of
three, Shawn was a scholar athlete on the BU Men's
Hockey Team that went to the NCAA Final Four three
out of his four years on the team, and won one NCAA
championship and three Beanpot championships. Shawn
decided to continue his training at BU, enrolling at
BU Medical School, and completing his Family Medicine
residency here as well. Shawn is part of the faculty
at South Boston, and is our departments first Sports
Medicine Fellow after helping to create the
fellowship last year.
Josephine Fowler, MD, MSc - Director
of Maternal and Child Health Josephine.Fowler@bmc.org Dr. Fowler directs the Maternal and Child
Health curriculum. She comes to the Department of
Family Medicine from Virginia where she was Assistant
Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr.
Fowler completed her residency at the Medical College
of Virginia/Blackstone Family Practice. As well, Dr.
Fowler completed a fellowship in Maternal and Child
Health at Brown University where she received
additional training in high-risk obstetrics and level
2 newborn nursery care. Dr. Fowler is currently one of
two family medicine faculty members privileged to
perform cesarean sections. Dr. Fowler is the recipient
of the 2003 Urban League's Medicine Award for
Southeastern Massachusetts. Her research interest
includes Health Disparities in Cervical Cancer and
Infant Mortality. Dr. Fowler is the recipient of the
2003 Urban League's Medicine Award for Southeastern
Massachusetts. Her research interest includes Health
Disparities in Cervical Cancer and Infant Mortality.
Avra Goldman, MD Avra.Goldman@bmc.org Avra Goldman, MD is the Medical Director of
the Ambulatory Care Centre Family Medicine practice, a
faculty practice that cares for an inner city and
multi-ethnic population. She runs the home visit
program for the Department. She is a member of the
Boston Center fro Refugee Health and Human Rights and
provides frequent care to victims of political
oppression. She is a frequent preceptor at South
Boston Community Health Center. She is also a member
of the Boston University School of Medicine Admissions
Committee. She came to Boston Medical Center after
spending 8 years working in community health centers.
Laura
Goldman, MD- Residency Continuity Site
Director, South Boston Laura.Goldman@bmc.org Dr. Goldman is the Director of Geriatrics. A
graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of
New Jersey and the Brown University Family Practice
Residency Program, Dr. Goldman came to the Family
Medicine Department in 1998. She was an Assistant
Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of
Medicine since, and was in clinical practice for 14
years. Dr. Goldman was the Program Director of Family
Medicine at South Boston Community Health Center from
1998-2003 and Assistant Residency Director from
1998-2004. She was a 2003-4 Boston University Center
of Excellence in Geriatrics Faculty Scholar. She is a
graduate of the Stanford Faculty Development Program
in Geriatrics in Primary Care. Dr. Goldman has been
designing and teaching the geriatrics curriculum for
the pre-doctoral and residency programs with funding
from the Reynolds Foundation. She also directs the
department's nursing home practice.
David Gunther, MD David.Gunther@bmc.org Dr. Gunther practices at the Family Medicine
Center at BMC and is a frequent preceptor at South
Boston Community Health Center. Prior to his career in
clinical medicine, Dr. Gunther obtained a Bachelors
and a Masters in physics, and participated in research
in body composition at the Tufts Nutrition Research
Center. He is a graduate of the Medical College of
Pennsylvania and the University of Massachusetts
Family Practice Residency Program. In his residency
program, where he served as chief resident, he worked
at a health center site serving an urban multi-ethnic
population. After residency he continued to practice
family medicine at community health centers serving
diverse underserved communities, first in Dorchester
and then in Somerville Massachusetts. Before his
arrival at BMC, he was the medical director for two
community health centers in Somerville. While in this
role he saw patients and served as clinical faculty
for Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gunther's interests
include organic gardening, carpentry, international
travel, and biking with his children, Elijah (8) and
Maya (6).
Lana Habash, MD Lana.Habash@bmc.org Dr. Habash attended the University of
Maryland, School of Medicine and completed her
residency at the University of Massachusetts Family
Practice Residency program. She has focused on
community health care settings in urban underserved
populations, maternal-infant health, and has worked
extensively with Healthcare for the Homeless. Dr.
Habash is a member of the AAFP; American Medical
Women's Association and was a recipient of the Howard
C. Silver Scholarship for accomplishments in community
service and the Humanism in Medicine Award. Her
professional interests include homeless health care,
domestic violence, cultural sensitivity, refugee
health, and social justice in medicine.
Nan Harvey, MD -
Clinical Faculty ncharvey@bu.edu Nanette Harvey teaches medical students
here at Boston University School of Medicine. She
recently became the Course Manager for Introduction
to Clinical Medicine for first year students in their
spring term. In this capacity she is responsible for
the curriculum design and implementation in this
course that has one hundred fifty five students. She
also has been an instructor in the Integrated
Problems course since 1995 that is a seminar course
for first and second year medical students where
basic science curriculum is integrated with clinical
cases for students to discuss and research. Since
1998 she has been director of the Summer Externship
in Family Medicine. In this program, 12 students
between their first and second year of medical school
go out and work one on one with a family physician
for their first clinical immersion experience. In
addition, she has been involved with online, distance
learning courses by developing curriculum and
facilitating the courses on line for the Third Year
Family Medicine Clerkship and the Summer Externship
in Family Medicine. Prior to her teaching role at BU
she was in private practice for seven years.
Thomas C. Hines, MD -
Residency Director Thomas.Hines@bmc.org Dr. Hines is the Program Director of the
Family Medicine Residency Program. He received his
M.D. degree from Tufts University School of Medicine
in 1979 and completed his Family Practice Residency at
the University of Massachusetts in 1982. After serving
in the National Health Service Corps at the Manet
Community Health Center in Quincy, MA, Dr. Hines
joined the Department of Family and Community Medicine
at UMass, working for several years as a physician in
that department's satellite practice in Gardner, MA.
He came to the department in 1998 from the Department
of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts,
where he served as Predoctoral Director and Acting
Chief for the Division of Family Medicine, while
working clinically in a primary care practice
affiliated with New England Medical Center in downtown
Boston. Dr. Hines' areas of particular interest
include geriatric medicine, primary care of people
with developmental disabilities, and the psychosocial
aspects of family medicine.
Miriam Hoffman-Kleiner, MD Miriam.Hoffman@bmc.org
Dr. Hoffman-Kleiner joins the faculty
from New York, where she completed her Family Medicine
residency at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian
Hospital. There, she served as chief resident, and won
the STFM Resident Teacher of the Year Award. She
studied English and Humanities at Johns Hopkins
University as an undergraduate, and then went on to
Cornell University Medical College. Dr.
Hoffman-Kleiner's interests include women's health and
reproductive rights, Narrative Medicine,
maternal-child health, and inner-city medicine. She
enjoys hiking, singing, and the New York Yankees.
Brian Jack, MD - Vice
Chair for Academic Affairs Brian.Jack@bmc.org Brian Jack, MD, is Associate Professor of
Family Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine
founding Vice Chair for Academic Affairs. Dr. Jack
came to BU in 1997 from Brown University, where he was
founder and director of the Department's maternal and
child health fellowship program. Dr. Jack received his
medical degree from the University of Massachusetts
and completed his residency training at the Brown
University/Memorial Hosptial where he was Chief
Resident. He completed a fellowship in Obstetrics and
Family Medicine at Sacred Heart Medical Center in
Spokane, Washington. He has an active family medicine
practice that includes high risk OB and cesarean
section. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed
articles or book chapters, reviewed papers for major
medical journals, served on NICHHD and HRSA grant
review panels and currently is PI on grants from HRSA,
AHRQ and NHLBI. He is currently a member of the CDCs
"Select Panel on Preconception Care". Dr. Jack has
also been active in the worldwide development of
family medicine and is a founding member of the AAFPs
Center for International Initiatives. He spent a
sabbatical year in Budapest, Hungary in 1995 where he
received a special citation from the mayor of
Budapest. He taught the first ALSO courses in Jordan
and Pakistan. Dr. Jack has served as a consultant to
USAID, the World Bank, the US Department of State and
Rockefeller Foundation on the development of family
medicine in Lesotho, Albania, Jordan, Romania, and
Vietnam.
Aram Kaligian, MD, MPH Aram.Kaligian@bmc.org A recent graduate of our Family Medicine
Residency Program here at BMC, Dr. Kaligian joins the
faculty with a practice based at Harvard Street
Neighborhood Health Center in Dorchester. He graduated
from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst with a
double major in Biochemistry and English, and received
his MD and MPH degrees from Tufts University School of
Medicine. In between, he worked as an activist
mobilizing political, economic and humanitarian
support for Armenians in the earthquake-zone in
Armenia, and in the war-zone in Nagorno-Karabagh. He
has also worked as a graphic designer, journalist, and
medical editor. He conducted a public health study in
Nagorno-Karabagh in 1998, and has served as a board
member of the Armenia Immunization 2000 Fund.
Chris Manasseh, MD-
Director of Family Medicine Inpatient Services Chris.Manasseh@bmc.org Dr. Manasseh is the Director of Family
Medicine Inpatient Services. He graduated from the
Kilpauk Medical College of the University of Madras,
India and then completed his family medicine residency
training at In His Image Family Practice Program at
Hilcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1997.
Chris completed the Duke University National Faculty
Development Workshop series from 1997-1999. He served
as the Inpatient Director at a 550 bed tertiary care
hospital in North Carolina for the past four years,
where he has received teacher of the year from the
family practice residents three out of the past fours
years. Chris is certified in BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS,
and ALSO. Dr. Manasseh has developed a series of
lectures appropriate to the care of hospitalized
patients that will be part of our ongoing core
curriculum.
Jeffrey Markuns, MD Jeffrey.Markuns@bmc.org
Originally from South Boston, Jeff
graduated from Saint Louis University School of
Medicine. Prior to medical school, Jeff attended the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. With a strong
interest in research, Jeff participated in a
predoctoral fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center
where the results of his projects have led to numerous
publications regarding diabetes and exercise. Jeff
completed his residency in Family Medicine at Boston
University Medical Center as one of the first
residents in the program. He remained on faculty and
now works as an Assistant Residency Director, and
continues to see patients at South Boston Community
Health Center. In addition, Jeff is completing a two
year fellowship specializing in medical education.
Jeff has particular medical interests in physician
leadership, obstetrics, sports medicine, and the
doctor-patient relationship.
Elizabeth Maziarka, MD Elizabeth.Maziarka@bmc.org Dr. Maziarka is a graduate of Rush
University College of Medicine and the Family Medicine
Residency Program at Providence Hospital affiliated
with the University of Washington. Her continuity site
experience was located at the Seattle Indian Health
Board working with the Native American population. Dr.
Maziarka has extensive experience as a mental health
therapist. Her interests include cross-cultural
medicine, and working together with patients to
integrate cultural and spiritual aspects of health
with the medical components. Dr. Maziarka has a strong
interest in working with indigent populations. She is
currently a member of the AAFP and was board certified
in 1999. She has a strong interest in cultural and
spiritual aspects of healing.
Cheryl McSweeney, MD Cheryl.McSweeney@bmc.org Dr. McSweeney completed her undergraduate
degree at MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and
then went to Ohio State University for her MD before
returning to Massachusetts for residency at UMass in
Worcester. She is interested in women's health and in
working with underserved families and teens. She
practices at the East Boston Neighborhood Health
Center.
Barbara E. Millen, DPH, RD, FADA bmillen@bu.edu Dr. Millen is a Professor of Public Health & Socio-Medical Sciences in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine and current Chair of the MA, PhD, and MD-PhD programs in Medical Nutrition Sciences. Her research interests include: the nutritional epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases; the efficacy of preventive nutrition interventions for adult and minority populations; and nutrition and health communications. Dr. Millen has led the NIH/NHLBI-funded Framingham Nutrition Studies for the past 15 years and directs a research team that has examined the cross-sectional and prospective relationships between diet, nutritional status, and cardiovascular disease risk factors and related outcomes in male and female participants of the Framingham Heart study. Among Dr. Millen's other collaborative investigations are prospective research on the relationship between nutritional risk and health outcomes frail, minority elderly, 70 to 106 years of age; studies of nutrition and chronic disease risk reduction in a variety of adult female and male populations; the efficacy of community-based nutrition interventions; and food insecurity in urban populations. She is also involved in multi-disciplinary investigations on innovative methods of nutrition and health communications with younger and older adult populations. Within these diverse and rich research settings, she has supervised over 200 masters and doctoral students and offers ongoing opportunities for students in graduate programs in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health..
Salvatore J. Molica, Jr, MD,
MPH sal.molica@codman.org Dr. Molica has spent 12 years as a
family physician and medical director at the Codman
Square Health Center following a year serving as a
primary care physician in Haiti. After attending the
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, he completed his
family medicine residency at the Brown University
Family Practice Residency. He then finished a
Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Fellowship at
the Carney Hospital and received his MPH from Boston
University. Dr. Molica has had long-standing academic
affiliations with Boston University School of
Medicine through the CCHERS program and the family
medicine mentorship programs. He is currently a
member of the American Academy of Family Physicians,
the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, and
the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Sal is
board certified in Preventive Medicine and co-directs
our Community Medicine curriculum.
Rachel Mott-Keis, MD, MPH Rachel.Mott@bmc.org Dr. Mott-Keis is a native of
Massachusetts who is thrilled to be practicing at
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center. Though her
formal education was attained in Massachusetts;
Boston College, University of Massachusetts Medical
School and our own Boston University Family Medicine
Residency program, she spent a highly educational
year volunteering at a transitional housing program
for elderly men in Seattle, WA through the Jesuit
Volunteer Corp. This year has helped shape and cement
her interests in working with underserved
populations, with a particular interest in
homelessness. While at BMC, she served as
Co-President of the house officer's union and
Co-Chief Resident. She is proficient in Spanish and
has a number of outdoor/athletic interests including
field hockey, hiking and biking.
Christine Odell, MD Christine.Odell@bmc.org Dr. Odell graduated from the University of Michigan
with a B.S. in biology then worked on HIV and cancer
research in the biotechnology field after graduation.
She then attended Boston University School of
Medicine and completed her family practice residency
at Maine Medical Center. Dr. Odell served as the
Chief Resident at the Maine Medical Center Family
Practice Residency Program before coming back to
Boston University to complete the Academic Family
Medicine Fellowship including an MSc degree in
Epidemiology. Her research has been focused on low
birth weight among black ethnic groups in
Massachusetts. Dr. Odell is a full-time faculty
member in the department. Her interests include
biking, golfing, hiking, volleyball, sea-kayaking and
traveling.
Matthew Pecci, MD Matthew.Pecci@bmc.org A graduate of the University of
Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Pecci completed his
residency at the UCLA Family Medicine Residency
Program and then went on to do a fellowship in sports
medicine at Ohio State University. Dr. Pecci is a
clinical faculty member in family medicine at Boston
Medical Center. In addition, he works in conjunction
with the orthopedic department at Boston Medical
Center, seeing patients in their clinic ˝ day per
week. Dr. Pecci is active in medical student, and
residency teaching, and works as the director of the
sport medicine, and orthopedic curriculum for the BMC
family medicine residency. He is a team physician for
Boston University Athletics, and has covered many
large-scale athletic events including the Baystate
Games, the 1998 Transplant Olympics, Nike National
Indoor Track and Field Competition, and the Columbus
Marathon. Dr. Pecci is board certified in Family
Medicine as well as Sports Medicine. His interests
include golfing, basketball, football, and hiking.
Joseph Peppe, MD Joseph.Peppe@bmc.org Born, raised, and educated in the Boston
area, Dr. Peppe is a recent graduate of our Family
Medicine Residency Program at Boston Medical Center.
He continues to care for the patients he began
treating as a resident at South Boston Community
Health Center. He graduated from Tufts University with
a BS in Chemistry and received his MD from University
of Massachusetts Medical School. Career interests
include medical student and resident education, LGBT
healthcare, and residency administration. Personal
interests include reading and biking.
Ruth A. Potee, MD Ruth.Potee@bmc.org A graduate of Wellesley College and Yale
School of Medicine, Dr. Potee was one of the first
residents in the Boston University Department of
Family Medicine. Committed to the urban and
international patient population served by Boston
Medical Center, she is working in the faculty practice
based at the hospital. She has particular interests in
women's reproductive rights, maternal-child health,
and public policy. Dr. Potee served as the national
president of the largest resident's union in the
country, the Committee of Interns and Residents, for
two years while working on resident work hour reform.
She enjoys being a mother to three children,
gardening, and being married to another family
physician.
Robert Saper, MD, MPH Robert.Saper@bmc.org Dr. Saper is a member of the Department's
research faculty and is Director of Integrative
Medicine. His interests are to develop research,
educational, and clinical programs that explore how
complementary and alternative therapies can be
responsibly integrated with conventional medicine.
Prior to joining our Department, he completed a three
year Complementary Medicine Research Fellowship at
Harvard Medical School. He currently is developing a
curriculum in complementary medicine for the residency
program. Dr. Saper graduated from Harvard Medical
School in 1988. After completing a family medicine
residency at UCSF, he practiced in the San Francisco
Bay Area for 8 years.
Philip "Chip"
Severin, MD Philip.Severin@Codman.org Dr. Severin is a faculty member based at
Codman Square Community Health Center, where he is
presently the Associate Medical Director. He received
his M.D. degree from the University of
Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and completed his
Family Medicine residency training at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Severin received the Society
of Teachers of Family Medicine Resident Teacher of the
Year Award. His teaching focus for the residency has
been women's health and dermatology.
Sara "Suki"
Tepperberg, MD, MPH - Assistant Residency
Director suki.tepperberg@codman.org Dr. Tepperberg's practice is based at
Codman Square Community Health Center. She graduated
from Cornell University and received her M.D. degree
from the State University of New York Health Sciences
Center at Brooklyn. She completed her residency
training at the Brown University Family Practice
Residency Program. Dr. Tepperberg completed a
fellowship in Community-Oriented Primary Care /
Preventive Medicine at Carney Hospital and Harvard
School of Public Health. Additionally, Suki is board
certified in Preventive Medicine and is an Assistant
Residency Director. Her curriculum areas include
Community Medicine/Occupational Medicine,
Maternal-Child Health, and Adolescent Health issues.
Outside of work, she loves to spend time with her
young family.
Stephen M. Tringale, MD smtringale@aol.com Dr. Tringale is a faculty member at
the Codman Square Health Center. He came to Codman
Square following three years with the Indian Health
Service serving the Hopi and Navajo Nations at Keams
Canyon, Arizona. After attending Boston University
School of Medicine, he completed his family medicine
residency at the Brown University Family Practice
Residency Program. He is currently a member of the
American Academy of Family Physicians, the
Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, and the
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Charles Williams, MD Charles.Williams@bmc.org Dr. Williams is Director of
Ambulatory Services and Medical Director of the
Family Medicine Department at East Boston
Neighborhood Health Center. His teaching interests
include practice management and quality improvement,
and interviewing skills. He coordinates our
Evidence-Based Medicine Series. A graduate of
University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.S. - Bioethics
1990, M.D. 1994) and the Brown Practice Medicine
residency program, Dr. Williams comes to Boston
Medical Center with research experience in Medical
Ethics. He is a member of the American Board Family
Practice, the American Academy of Family Physicians,
Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, the
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the CARE
study group. He spends all of his spare time with his
family with whom he enjoys playing French horn,
participating in quasi-competitive sailing, and
working on his house.
Joanne Wilkinson, MD Joanne.Wilkinson@bmc.org Joanne Wilkinson, MD is completing
her faculty development fellowship in the department
of Family Medicine. She graduated from Brown
University, Brown Medical School, and did her
residency at Brown/Memorial Hospital of RI. After
residency she practiced in a variety of settings for
six years, culminating in opening her own private
practice for three years. During that time she was a
clinical faculty member at Brown and was involved in
student advising, clinical teaching, and curriculum
development. Her teaching interests include practice
management, physical diagnosis, interviewing
techniques, and literature and medicine.
