ABOUT
PROGRAMS
SCHOLARS
SUPPORT
AccomplishmentsPublications
Post-Residency Opportunities
Leadership
Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (Rolling)
http://www.selaminternational.org/Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
(ELAM) Program for Women (Approximate Due Date: February)
http://www.drexel.edu/elam/home.html- Leadership Seminar Series (Approximate Due Date: April)
http://www.amsa.org/lss/index.cfm
Research
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Research Stimulation Grant (Rolling)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x446.xml -
PBRN Research Stimulation Grant (Approximate Due Date: February)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x445.xml -
Joint Grant Awards Program (Approximate Due Date: June)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x270.xml -
PBRN Research Stimulation Grant (Approximate Due Date: August)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x445.xml -
Joint Grant Awards Program (Approximate Due Date: December)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x270.xml
Teaching
Fellowship Training
- Bishop Fellowship Program (Approximate due date: September)
http://stfm.org/foundation/bishop.htmFaculty Development
Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women (Approximate Due Date: February)
http://www.drexel.edu/elam/progsum/home.htmHerbert W. Nickens, MD Minority Faculty Fellowship (Approximate Due Date: May)
http://www.aamc.org/about/awards/nickensfellowships.htm
Peer Reviewer
- Journal of Family Practice
Please send an email to Jeff Susman, MD, Editor, susmanjl@uc.edu, and indicate that you are a Pisacano Scholar, and your areas of interest/expertise
- AFP Home Study Monographs
Please send an email to Jeff Susman, MD, Editor, susmanjl@uc.edu, and indicate that you are a Pisacano Scholar, and your areas of interest/expertise
Resident Opportunities
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Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care (Rolling)
http://www.aafppolicy.org/internship.xml
- Leadership Seminar Series (Approximate Due Date: April)
http://www.amsa.org/lss/
- Physicians With Heart Resident Scholarship (Approximate Due Date:
July)
http://www.aafpfoundation.org/x501.xml
- Research Skills Training Workshop (Approximate Due Date:
July)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x265.xml
- Resident Repayment Program (Approximate Due Date: October)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x258.xml
Student Opportunities
- Robert
Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care (Rolling)
http://www.aafppolicy.org/internship.xml
- Educational Development for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (EDCAM)
(Rolling)
http://www.amsa.org/humed/CAM/
- The AMSA Health Policy Internship (Rolling)
http://www.amsa.org/hp/hippi.cfm
- Health Policy Leadership Institute (Approximate Due Date: March)
http://www.lonepear.com
- Jack Rutledge Universal Health Care Internship (Approximate Due
Date: March)
http://www.amsa.org/hp/uhcintern.cfm
- End of Life Care (Approximate Due Date: April)
http://www.amsa.org/programs/EOL.cfm
- Leadership Training Program (LTP) (Approximate Due Date: April)
For Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
http://www.amsa.org/humed/CAM/ltp.cfm
- Washington Health Policy Fellowship Program (Approximate Due
Date: April)
http://www.amsa.org/hp/whpfp.cfm
- Paul Ambrose Fellowship (Leadership, Health Policy, Preventive
Medicine)
(Approximate Due Date: June)
http://www.concordhospital.org (click on Family Practice Residency icon)
- Primary Care Leadership Training Program (Approximate Due Date:
June)
http://www.amsa.org/addm/
- Jones Student Scholarship Program (Approximate Due Date: July)
http://aafpfoundation.org/x263.xml
Accomplishments
Scholarship and Academic Achievement
- Family Medicine Preceptor of the Year Award (during first year of practice)
- Awards for academic excellence upon graduation
- Outstanding evaluations by peers and faculty
- Scholars are sought after as teachers, tutors, and mentors
- Trainer in the Residents as Teachers program
- Expert on Service-Learning as an educational method; facilitator of service-learning reflection group
- Serve on Curriculum Committees and assist with significant curricular reforms
- Introduced concepts of Problem-Based Learning into medical school and residency curricula
- Hold positions in academic settings (medical schools and residency programs)
- Published manuscripts (scientific studies and personal writings)
- Editorial Board, American Family Physician
- Peer reviewer, Journal of Family Practice
- Write POEM reviews
- Peer-reviewers in training with experienced reviewers for the Journal of the ABFP
- Completion of faculty development fellowship
- Lecturer for pharmaceutical companies at local primary care residency programs and CME events
- Most Scholars serve as Chief Residents in their last year of residency training.
- Lead Family Medicine Interest Groups at medical schools
- Resident Delegate to the AAFP Congress
- Student Board Member position on the AAFP Board of Directors
- Resident observer to the Board of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors
- Liaison position to the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine
- Student and resident positions on the Boards of the state chapters of AAFP
- Participate in practice-management decision-making
- Web page design for their medical schools or residency programs
- Participate in CQI Committees
- Led Medical Student Informatics Groups
- Established computer lab within medical school
- Serve as mentor and role model for other physicians-in-training
- Health Policy Advisor to the State Senate Health Committee
- Advocacy and government affairs consultant with the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
- Scholars lobby their local and state legislators for improvements in primary care education and practice.
- Advisor to Physicians for a National Health Plan and Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Lieutenant in the Navy reserves
- Strong commitment to serving the medically underserved
- National Health Service Corps Scholars
- One Scholar is fluent in American Sign Language and volunteers to work with the hearing-impaired community to meet their health needs.
- One Scholar is on the Board of Directors of a local American Indian tribal community.
- One Scholar is a locum tenens physician in some of the most underserved areas of our country.
- The Scholars provide care in refugee situations, and participate in medical mission trips and international health electives.
- Fellowship with the World Health Organization in Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Organize the collection of medical supplies for a mission trip to remote regions.
- Serve on hospital ethics committees and lecture about end-of-life issues and medical ethics
- Developed patient education materials about advance directives and facilitated a performance improvement project related to the use of advance directives in a hospital system
- Dedicated to their families; e.g. serve as Little League coach for son’s team; take extended maternity and paternity leaves
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Participate in intensive language and culture training to improve patient communication skills
- Some Scholars speak multiple languages
- Radio and television appearances on health-related segments for patient education
- One Scholar hosted a radio call-in program while he was a fourth-year medical student.
- Write newspaper articles on health issues
- Participant in pharmaceutical company-sponsored videotaping and patient interviews for CME event
- Write grants for community-based programs
- Serve as teachers about health topics and health careers at local schools and community sites
- Coordinate AAFP’s Tar Wars program in local community
- Run or walk with colleagues and family in local health-related races and relays
- Organize a local award-winning tobacco advertising project
- Volunteer at local migrant camps and soup kitchens
- One Scholar bicycled from Boston to New York City, and from San Francisco to Los Angeles on his mountain bike "Red Devil", raising over five thousand dollars for research and education related to HIV and AIDS.
- Practice full-spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics and inpatient medicine
- All Scholar Alumni are Board-certified by the ABFM
- Serve as clinical coordinators at their practice sites
- Director of Children’s Health at a public-health funded clinic
- Completion of Sports Medicine or Rural/Surgical Obstetrics Fellowship
Publications
Kara Cadwallader, MD
Pellant A, Cadwallader K. When should an MRI be done for patients with symptoms of sciatica? Evidence Based Practice. May 2008 Vol 11 (5).Cadwallader K, Fredrick N, Flanagan M. "FPIN: Getting Students From Evidence-based Research to Publication. Seminar presented at the 41st Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference, Baltimore, MD. May 1, 2008.
Cadwallader K, Ewigman B, Winkler-Prins V, Stiles M, Hoock J. "FPIN: Practical Faculty Scholarship--Writing for an Evidence-based Point of Care Publication. Workshop presented at the 41st Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference, Baltimore, MD. May 3, 2008.
Writing for Handheld Clinical Resources (PEPID) Workshop." Presented to the Family Medicine Residency Network, Faculty Development Fellowship. Univ of WA, 10/07
Johnson GW, Cadwallader K, Scheffel, SB. "Treatment of Lateral Epicondylitis." American Family Physician 2007; 76: 4.
Writing for Handheld Clinical Resources (PEPID) Workshop." Presented to the Family Medicine Residency Network, Faculty Development Fellowship. Univ of WA, 10/10/06
Evidence based medicine and the Warmline: poster presentation at The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Annual Spring Conference, 4/06. Drs Cadwallader and Serio
PEPID, Writing for the handheld. Workshop presented at The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Annual Spring Conference, 4/06.
"Mental Health in Idaho: Translating EBM and the FMRI Warmline." Idaho Academy Of Family Physicians 57th Annual Conference, May 13, 2005
"Writing for Handheld Clinical Resources (PEPID) Workshop." Presented to the Family Medicine Residency Network, Univ of WA, 4/1/05
"Writing with Evidence," Presented at The Faculty Development Workshop, Univ of WA, 4/22-23/04
Co-editor, "Core Content Review of Family Medicine." 17 topics accepted for publication, 09/03 Shepherd S, Cadwallader K, Jankowski TA, Triezenberg D. Does early detection of atherosclerotic renovascular hypertension change outcomes? J Fam Pract. 2005 Sep;54(9):813-6.
Cadwallader, K. Book chapter entitled "Dyspnea on exertion", Rakel's "Essentials of Family Medicine 3rd Edition. Elsevier, Inc. 2006
Cadwallader K, Jankowski T. Clinical Inquiry I: "Other than anticoagulation, what is the best therapy for those with atrial fibrillation?" The Journal of Family Practice. July 2004, Vol 53, No 7. Pp 581-2
Cadwallader K. Book review of " Primary Care of the Newborn," The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Jan-Feb 2002 Vol. 15 No. I pp. 90-91
Cadwallader K. Book review of "Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment," The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, May - June 2002, Vol. 15, No. 3
Cadwallader K, Foster E. Book review of "Griffith's Five Minute Clinical Consult," The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Oct - Sept 2002, Vol. 15, No. 5
Cadwallader K. Book review of "2003 Drug Facts and Comparisons," The Journal of the American Board Of Family Practice, Jul-Aug 2003, Vol 16, pp 358-359
Cadwallader K. Book review of "Family-Focused Behavioral Pediatrics," The Journal of the American Board Of Family Practice, accepted for publication.
Olson J, Cadwallader K. "Condyloma Acuminata" and "Gun Safety," The Core Content Review of Family Medicine, Oct 2003; Vol 34, No 7
Jennifer DeVoe, MD, M.Phil.
Jennifer E. DeVoe, MD, DPhil, Alia Baez, BA, Heather Angier, BA, Lisa Krois, MPH, Christine Edlund, MSc and Patricia A. Carney, PhD.Insurance + Access
Health
Care: Typology of Barriers to Health Care Access for Low-Income
Families. Annals of Family
Medicine 5:511-518 (2007).
DeVoe J, Fryer GE, Straub A, McCann J, and Fairbrother G. (2006) Congruent Satisfaction: Is There Geographic Correlation Between Patient And Physician Satisfaction? Medical Care, accepted August 2006, in press.
Biagioli F, DeVoe J, Hamilton A. (2006) What are Appropriate Screening Tests in Adolescents? Clinical Inquiries from the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN). The Journal of Family Practice, 55(10): 907-910.
Carlson M, DeVoe J, and Wright B. (2006) Short-Term Impacts of Coverage Loss in a Medicaid Population: Early Results from a Prospective Cohort Study of the Oregon Health Plan. Annals of Family Medicine 4(4): 391-398.
Biagioli F, DeVoe J, Hamilton A. (2006) What are Appropriate Screening Tests in Infants and Children? Clinical Inquiries from the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN). The Journal of Family Practice 55(9): 803-808.
Solotaroff R, DeVoe J, Wright B, Smith J, Boone J, Edlund T, and Carlson M. (2005) Medicaid Program Changes and the Chronically Ill: Early Results from a Prospective Cohort Study of the Oregon Health Plan. Chronic Illness 1:191-205.
Wright B, Carlson M, Edlund T, DeVoe J, Gallia C, and Smith J. (2005) The Impact of Medicaid Program Changes on Low Income Adults: Early Results from a Prospective Cohort Study. Health Affairs 24(4): 1106-1116.
DeVoe JE, Dodoo MS, Phillips RL, and Green LA. (2005) Graham Center One-Pager: Who Will Have Health Insurance in 2025? American Family Physician 72(10):1989.
DeVoe J. (2003) A Policy Transformed by Politics: The Case of the 1973 Australian Community Health Program. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 (1):77-108.DeVoe J and Short SD. (2003) A Shift in the Historical Trajectory of Medical Dominance: the Case of Medibank and the Australian Doctors’ Lobby. Social Science and Medicine 57:343-353.
DeVoe J, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, and Green LA. (2003) Comparing Receipt of Preventive Care Among Patients Based on Insurance Status and/or a Usual Source of Care. American Journal of Public Health 93(5):786-791.DeVoe J, Fryer GE, Hargraves L, Phillips RL, and Green LA. (2002) Does Career Dissatisfaction Affect the Ability of Family Physicians to Deliver High-Quality Patient Care? Journal of Family Practice 51(3):223-8.
DeVoe J. (2000) Resident and Student Voice: My Experiences at an ‘Orphan’ School: The Importance of Finding ‘Parents.’ American Family Physician 62(1):258, 261-2.
DeVoe J. (2005) Differing Views on What Contributes to Physician Satisfaction. Invited response for the Annals of Family Medicine 3(6): December 10, 2005.
DeVoe J. (2006) “Leg Pain and Swelling: Venous Thrombosis.” In Essential Family Medicine: Fundamentals and Case Studies, 3rd ed. Editor R. Rakel, pp 347-353. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier Inc.
DeVoe J. (2006) “Bedwetting: Childhood Nocturnal Enuresis.” In Essential Family Medicine: Fundamentals and Case Studies, 3rd ed. Editor R. Rakel, pp 423-428. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier Inc.
DeVoe J. (2001) The Politics of Health Care Reform: A Comparative Study of National Health Insurance in Britain and Australia. Kensington, New South Wales: School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales.Kenneth Grimm, MD
Grimm KJ. Intranasal Steroids or Antihistamines for Allergic Rhinitis. POEM Review. Journal of Family Practice 1999;48(3):170-1.
Grimm KJ. Treatment of Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Functional Dyspepsia. POEM Review. Journal of Family Practice 1999;48(7): 496-7.Nerissa Koehn, MD
Koehn NN, Green L, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, Miller JB. The Increase in International Medical Graduates in Family Practice Residency Programs. Family Medicine 2002; 34(6): 429-35.Brian Yoshio Laing, MD
Bodenheimer T, Matin M and Laing BY, The Specialist–Generalist Income Gap: Can We Narrow It? Journal of General Internal Medicine. Volume 23, Number 9 / September, 2008Laing BY, Bodenheimer T, Phillips RL, Bazemore A. Primary care's eroding earnings: Is Congress concerned? The Journal of Family Practice 2008; 57(9): 579-583.
Sarah Lesko, MD
Chang K, James C, Lesko S. Blueprints Clinical Cases in Family Medicine, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007.Rakel R, ed. Textbook of Family Practice, 7th edition; co-authored chapter. Abuse of Controlled Substances. W.B Saunders; due 2007.
Rakel R, ed. Essential Family Medicine: Fundamentals and Cases, 3rd edition; authored chapters. Hypothyroidism and Colon Cancer Screening. Saunders (Elsevier, Inc.); 2006.
Lesko S, Chang K, James C. Blueprints Clinical Cases in Family Medicine. Blackwell Science Publishing; 2002.
Lesko S. Women in Medicine; Challenges in Part-Time Residencies. Letter to the Editor, American Family Physician; Jan 1, 2002.
Lenny Lesser, MD
Lesser LI, Ebbeling CB, Goozner M, Wypij D, Ludwig DS (2007) Relationship between Funding Source and Conclusion among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles. PLoS Med 4(1): e5 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040005Lesser LI. Prevalence and Type of Brand Name Fast Food at Academic-affiliated Hospitals. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2006; 19: 526-527.
Lesser LI. On soft drink labels, state health risks [letter]. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. July 23, 2005, republished July 30, 2005.
Lesser LI and Fehnel C. At Issue: Health Insurance Reform: Government Run System would save Money, Lives. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. August 25, 2003.
Lesser LI and Del Mar C. Patients' Perceptions of Waiting Times in the Australian Health Care System [abstract]. Presented at the 2004 American Medical Student Association Convention's NIH/NHSC/AMSA Poster Session.
Lesser, LI and Bisogni, CA. Spontaneous and non-spontaneous physical activity in the transition from High School to College [abstract]. Presented at May 2003 meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, San Francisco, CA. Medicine Science Sports Exercise. 2003; 35(5): S342.
Lesser, LI. Spontaneous and non-spontaneous physical activity in the transition from High School to College [dissertation]. Ithaca (NY): Cornell U, 2001. 58 p. Available from: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Jennifer Lochner, MD
Saultz JW, Lochner J. Interpersonal Continuity of Care and Care Outcomes: A Critical Review. Ann Fam Med. 2005;3:159-166.Lochner J, Rugge B, Judkins D, Saseen J. How effective are lifestyle changes for controlling hypertension? J Fam Pract. 2006;55(1):73-4.
Rugge JB, Lochner J, Judkins D. What is the best surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic carriers of hepatitis B? J Fam Pract. 2006;55(2):155-156.
Lochner JE. Fever without source in children (Fever). In Rakel RE, editor. Essential Family Medicine, third edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2006: 236-241.
Lochner JE. Pruritis (Atopic Dermatitis). In Rakel RE, editor. Essential Family Medicine, third edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2006: 250-257.
Sean Lucan, MD, MPH
Lucan SC, Phillips RL, Bazemore AW. "Off the Roadmap? Family Medicine's grant funding and committee representation at NIH." Annals of Fam Med. – In PressLucan SC, Barg FK, Bazemore AW, Phillips RL. "Family Medicine, the NIH, & the medical-research Roadmap: perspectives from inside NIH" Family Medicine – In Press
Lucan SC, Katz DL. Factors associated with smoking cessation counseling at clinical encounters: the behavioral risk factor surveillance system (brfss) 2000. Am J Health Promot. Sept/Oct 2006, V21, I1, 16
Lucan SC. Next Great City? [Re: smoking ban] Philadelphia Magazine. February 2006
Katz DL, Boukhalil J, Lucan SC, Shah D, Chan W, Yeh MC. Impediment profiling for smoking cessation: preliminary experience. Behav Modif. 2003 Sep;27(4):524-37.
O'Connell M, Lucan SC, Yeh MC, Rodriguez E, Shah D, Chan W, Katz DL. Impediment profiling for smoking cessation: results of a pilot study. Am J Health Promot. 2003; 17(5):300-3.
Lucan SC. State Should OK Public Smoking Bills. New Haven Register January 29, 2003
Amanda Morris, MD
Amanda L Morris MD, Robert L Phillips MD, MSPH, George E Fryer Jr., PhD, Larry A Green MD and Fitzhugh Mullan MD. International medical graduates in family medicine in the United States of America: an exploration of professional characteristics and attitudes. Human Resources for Health, 4:17 (18 Jul 2006)
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/4/1/17Katrina Posta, MD
(1) Posta K. Patient Education Materials and their Use in Primary Care. Proceedings of the Primary Care Network of UCLA, Fall 1999.James Toombs, MD Oral Methadone Dosing for Chronic Pain: A Practitioner's Guide. Pain Treatment Topics, March 2008.
James Toombs, MD Commonsense Opioid Risk Management in Chronic Noncancer Pain. Pain Treatment Topics, August 2007.
James Toombs, MD Methadone Dosing for Chronic Pain in Ambulatory Patients: A Clinician's Perspective. Pain Treatment Topics, February 2006.
James Toombs, MD, Lee Kral, PharmD. Methadone Treatment for Pain States. American Family Physician 2005; 71:1353-8.
Toombs JD, Follett KA, Rosenquist RW, Benton LM. Intrathecal Catheter Tip Inflammatory Mass: A Failure of Clonidine to Protect. Anesthesiology 2005; 3:687-90.
Trish Palmer, MD and James D. Toombs, MD. Managing Joint Pain in Primary Care. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 2004 Nov-Dec;17 Suppl:S32-42.
Edward T. Bope, MD, Alan B. Douglass, MD, Alan Gibovsky, MD, Tanya Jones, MD, Laeth Nasir, MBBS, Trish Palmer, MD, Sunil Panchal, MD, Francine Rainone, PhD, DO, Peter Rives, MD, Knox Todd, MD and James D. Toombs, MD. Pain Management by the Family Physician: The Family Practice Pain Education Project. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 2004 Nov-Dec;17 Suppl:S1-12.
Toombs JD Be The Doctor, Always. American Family Physician, October 1, 1999; Volume 60, Number 5:1576-79.
Barbara Troupin, MD, MBA
(1) Diabetes Update, California Family Physician
(2) Domestic Violence Reporting, California Family Physician.