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Urban Service Track Faculty and Staff
A dedicated group of professionals, who have varied backgrounds and interests, supports our talented and diverse Urban Health Scholars. They include educators, administrators, clinicians and community partners. The "core" faculty members, who are responsible for the two-year curriculum delivered at quarterly learning retreats, come from the University's Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Division of General Dentistry, and the Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing. Partnering with community clinicians and social service agency representatives, the core faculty deliver an exciting and robust curriculum focused on the medical management of vulnerable populations. |
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Bruce Gould, MD
Associate Dean for Primary Care,
School of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine |
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Petra Clark-Dufner, MA
Associate Director of AHEC
Director, Urban Service Track |
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Ruth Goldblatt, DMD
My interest in vulnerable populations probably goes back to my childhood. Being the youngest of 4 children and having older parents I always gravitated to older adults and this has become my passion and area of expertise. Geriatrics is a "team sport" and it seemed a natural fit to move into teaching interprofessionally in a meaningful way. Urban Service Track is like its own little family. It is tremendously uplifting to teach and learn from my colleagues across the disciplines. This program is about us learning from each other in order to teach and model for our students. The mentoring is second to none and makes each interaction more meaningful. I want to feel as if my presence has made a difference in the world around me. I consider it a privilege to take care of others, especially those who are underserved and in great need. There is an expression I hear quite a bit that I like, "let us learn in order to do, let us learn in order to teach." Urban Service Track enables me to accomplish this in an environment of mutual respect for the other disciplines. |
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Mike Goupil, DDS, OMF |
| School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine |
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Hugh Blumenfeld, MD
I'm a New York City boy. In my prior life I studied and taught the Romantic poets, and then was a folksinger following in the footsteps of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs. I know all the verses to "This Land Is Your Land." So, when I was first approached to be part of UST as a family medicine resident, I was just pleased as punch. In the world of specialized medicine, UST is an oasis of interdisciplinary, primary care and service-oriented medicine. Both faculty and students are so pumped to be working together, to be working within a very needy community, to be creating what is really a new discipline - how could I not want to come to work in the morning? |
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David Henderson, MD |
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Kenia Mansilla-Rivera, MD |
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Kelley Newlin Lew, DNSc, ARNP-C, CDE
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Lisa-Marie W. Griffiths, MA, MS, WHNP-BC, APRN
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut School of Nursing
To help people at all times from the Girl Scout promise & to make the world a better place from the Girl Scout laws. These two qualities have been my focus growing up and influenced me in choosing Nursing as a career. As a 6th grader, I was able to run a clothing donation service out of the Good Shepherd Methodist Church. I still remember Rev. Ben cleaning out the small storage area under the church where the lawn movers were stored. He had faith that I could make it happen. I had no idea at the time how big this would be. I had my own entrance in the back of the church and a key! I received gently used clothing, and even sewed some items with fabric donations. Soon the room was full to the top with everything you could need. I had open shopping hours and still remember my first visit from a Social Worker who heard about my "store". She brought a family who had been burned out of a trailer. I was hooked on helping others. |
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Devra Dang, PharmD |
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Andrea Hubbard, Ph.D. |
| School of Social Work |
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Edna W. Comer, Ph.D., M.S.W. |
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Anton Alerte, MD
Maureen Czick, MD
Kathy Goldman, MD
Patricia Joyce, MD
Ellen Nestler, MD |
Seja Fischman, APRN
Joyce Harmon, APRN
Cynthia Lord Booth, PA
MaryAnn McGuire, RN, MPH
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Last update: December 16, 2011 - CCC |
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