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Deborah Rin Erlich, MD
Tufts University Family Medicine Residency
At Cambridge Health Alliance
195 Canal Street
Malden, MA 02148
Email: derlich@challiance.org
Deborah R. Erlich, MD has always lived in the Northeast, including several moves through New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and has lived in Cambridge and Boston for the last 11 years. She earned her bachelor's in psychology at Harvard and wrote a thesis on perceptions of race. After college, she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital's Cancer Center before matriculating at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, where she embraced Family Medicine and medical education. During medical school, she volunteered at and helped manage a free clinic, sat on the curriculum committee, took a medical education course, taught first- and second-year students, and completed elective rotations in San Francisco, Israel, and England, where she got along in Spanish, Hebrew, and "British." After attending STFM Northeast Meetings during her second and third years of medical school, Deb helped plan the meeting during her fourth year as the only student on the Host Committee. She is now a happy third-year resident at Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance in Malden, Massachusetts. She serves as the national Resident Representative to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s Family Medicine Residency Review Committee (RRC).
Locally, she volunteers on her institution's Graduate Medical Education Committee and spends her elective time teaching medical students. Her clinical interests include child/adolescent medicine, women's health, skin care, and preventive medicine; after residency she hopes to pursue an academic fellowship in faculty development. Her husband Jason trained in anesthesiology and is now completing a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine.
Congratulations, Dr. Erlich!
Jennifer L. Middleton, MD, MPH
UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15215
Email: middletonjl@upmc.edu
Jennifer L. Middleton, MD, MPH received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and did her residency training at the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program. She went on to complete a two-year faculty development fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine, and she joined the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program faculty in the fall of 2008.
While she was a faculty development fellow, Dr. Middleton obtained her Master in Public Health degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She became especially interested in health behavior theory during this time and developed a new model describing hypertension treatment behavior in African-Americans. For this work, she was awarded the William T. Green, Jr. Award in Public Health Studies.
Also while a fellow, Dr. Middleton teamed up with Dr. Timothy Wallace, then a UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine resident, to create a patient education series that aired locally on public access television. The scripts for “White Coats” integrated health behavior theory concepts into an accessible and fun television format; the show featured two fictional family physicians who, in moments both humorous and serious, taught their patients about health while promoting Family Medicine. Along with Dr. Wallace, Dr. Middleton was a co-winner of the 2006 Visual Arts in Family Medicine Award for “White Coats,” and she is currently the principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial, funded by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, that is testing the effectiveness of this novel health education format.
Dr. Middleton's current faculty responsibilities at UPMC St. Margaret include the “White Coats” research study, administrative and patient care duties as the assistant medical director for one of the program‟s Family Health Centers, and regular outpatient precepting and inpatient supervision of Family Medicine residents and students. As the Director of Practice Improvement for the residency, she also creates and implements on-going Electronic Health Record instruction for residents and faculty.
Dr. Middleton additionally enjoys writing and editing medical literature. She has published in a wide variety of formats, ranging from narrative essays to original research, in Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Family Medicine, Family Medicine, Journal of the National Medical Association, and Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. The New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians recently invited her to participate on their expert panel exploring treatment-resistant hypertension, and a resulting NJAFP CME monograph is currently in press.
Congratulations, Dr. Middleton!
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS
Department of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
3800 Reservoir Rd. NW
Kober - Cogan 205
Washington, DC 20007
Email: mishorir@georgetown.edu
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS is the Family Medicine Clerkship Director at Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine. She has been involved in the Mind-Body Medicine program since 2008. Dr. Mishori is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency. She holds a master‟s degree in International Health from the John‟s Hopkins University School of Public Health. In addition to being the director of the required third year Family Medicine Clerkship Dr. Mishori teaches various pre-doc courses, including: Evidence-Based Medicine I & II, Physical Diagnosis, Selectives, Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care, Clinical Pharmacology, Physician Patient Communication, and Ambulatory Care.
She is the recipient of several academic awards, including the International Programs Award, Natural Medicine Recognition Award, and Residency Teaching Excellence Award. Clinically, Dr. Mishori has a joint appointment with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she sees patients. She also serves as an attending physician at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, precepting residents in the outpatient office and supervising the family medicine inpatient service (including OB) on a rotating basis.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Mishori had a career as a television producer, focusing mainly on international affairs. Following medical school, she maintained her interest in communicating important issues to the public – this time around focusing on health and medicine -- and has been named Contributing Health Editor, Parade Magazine. She is also a regular contributor to Washington Post, among other publications.
Her interests include: care of the underserved; patient education and health communications; preventive health and global health.
Congratulations Dr. Mishori!
Gregory L. Sawin, MD, MPH
Tufts University Family Medicine Residency
195 Canal Street Malden, MA 02148
Email: gregory.sawin@tufts.edu
Gregory L. Sawin, MD, MPH – Interim Program Director, Director of Information Mastery and Quality Improvement, Assistant Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Sawin joined the Tufts Family Medicine Residency Program at Cambridge Health Alliance in August 2007. He completed his residency, fellowship in faculty development, and MPH at the University of Virginia. During his tenure at UVA he served as chief resident and chaired the Education Council for the Department of Family Medicine. He graduated medical school Magna Cum Laude from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia where he also received the Student Presidential Leadership Award and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a third year student. He practices full spectrum family medicine including obstetrics.
Dr. Sawin's scholarship interests include information mastery, quality improvement, and diabetes. As a self-proclaimed techno geek, he is interested in pushing information technology to include better clinical decision support, more robust research and population management tools, and friendlier human interface for both medical providers and patients. He also has interests in community medicine and working to alleviate health disparities. He has spent time in Nepal, Costa Rica and Botswana in clinical and research capacities. Dr. Sawin as presented nationally on group visits, information mastery, adult education theory and development of online resident portfolio systems. Personal interests include playing guitar, travel, cooking, snowboarding, hiking and camping. His wife Jennifer works in Restorative Justice and their son, Zane, entertains them daily with baby antics |
