MALDEN-BASED RESIDENCY STAFF

Greg Sawin, MD, MPH - Program Director
Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD - Assistant Program Director

Warren A. Bodine, DO
Molly Cohen-Osher, MD
Michael N. Doupe', MD
Andrea E. Gordon, MD
Honor MacNaughton, MD
George Maxted, MD
Nicolas Nguyen, MD
Geoffrey Pechinsky, MD
Judy Platt, MD

Gregory L. Sawin, MD, MPH (Email me) - Program Director and Director of Information Mastery, Director of Quality Improvement, Faculty Physician.

Dr. Sawin joined the Tufts FMRP in August of 2007. He completed his residency, fellowship in faculty development and MPH at the University of Virginia. He graduated medical school Magna Cum Laude from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He practices full spectrum family medicine including obstetrics.

Dr. Sawin's scholarship interests include information mastery, quality improvement and diabetes. Having been a web-master prior to medical school he's also a self proclaimed techno-geek and is interested in pushing information technology to include better clinical decision support, research tools and better human interface for both medical providers and patients. He also has interests in community medicine and working to alleviate health disparities.

Personal interests include playing guitar, travel, cooking, snowboarding, hiking and camping. His wife Jennifer is wicked awesome and works in Restorative Justice and Conflict Transformation.

Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD (Email me). Associate Program Director and Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Shaughnessy joined the faculty in 2004, though he has been teaching in family medicine residency programs since 1986. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. He has completed a faculty development fellowship and the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services Primary Care Health Policy Fellowship. He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Dr. Shaughnessy has been active in research and evidence-based medicine. He has written over 120 papers in the areas of pharmacology, family practice education, prescription-writing, and medical information management that have been published in journals such as the Journal of Family Practice, JAMA, British Medical Journal, and American Family Physician. He is the series editor for the American Family Physician's STEPS series of new drug reviews of the Clinical Pharmacology series.

Along with Dr. David Slawson, he has developed the concepts of Information Mastery. They also developed the concept of "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters" (POEMs). A leader in medical information management, Dr. Shaughnessy conducts presentations and workshops across the United States and has also presented workshops in Spain, England, Saudi Arabia, and Wales. In 2002, he and Dr. Slawson were awarded the Innovative Program Award by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine for their work on Information Mastery. He is married to fellow faculty member Andrea Gordon, MD.

Warren A. Bodine, DO (Email me) is a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician who joined the Tufts Family Medicine Residency faculty in July 2010. He is a Board Certified Osteopathic Family Physician and Sports Medicine expert who specializes in medical management of sports injuries. His interests are the care of the athlete, exercise promotion for the prevention of chronic adult diseases (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity), and Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy.

Originally from Long Island, NY, Dr. Bodine completed his medical school training and residency in Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, NJ. During his tenure, he served as class president, was inducted into the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine National Honor Society, and received the Best Teaching Intern Award from the UMDNJ-SOM Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution. His research on Epstein Barr Virus during residency earned him First Prize in the Richard J. Kresja, D.O., FACOFP Scientific Poster Competition at the annual American College of Osteopathic Family Physician's Conference in 2009.

Dr. Bodine went on to complete his fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. During his fellowship, he had the opportunity to work with two NCAA Division I Universities (Delaware State University and University of Delaware), local high schools, and provided coverage for multiple mass participation events including the Beast of the East Wrestling Tournament, Keystone State Games and Delaware Marathon. He also developed sports medicine emergency scenarios for the residents to learn from at Christiana Care's Virtual Education Simulation Technology Lab.

Dr. Bodine, along with his wife, Tara and energetic yellow lab, Casey, are excited about the opportunity to move to the Boston area. He is honored to instruct future physicians on primary care and musculoskeletal medicine. His interests include running, biking, spending time with friends and family and rooting for the New York Mets and New York Giants.

Molly Cohen-Osher, MD (Email me)- Molly Cohen-Osher, MD, joined the residency program as faculty in 2010 after completing her Master Teacher Fellowship at TUFMR. Molly hails from New Jersey, and attended medical school at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ. She completed her intern year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Family Medicine Residency Program, and finished her family medicine training the MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program in Berwyn, IL. In addition to teaching at the residency program, Molly teaches at Tufts University Medical School where she is the Assistant Course Director for the Medical Interviewing and the Doctor-Patient Relationship Course and the Assistant Clerkship Director for the Family Medicine Clerkship. Her teaching interests center on faculty development, curriculum development, procedure skills assessment, and education theory. Her clinical interests include office procedures, the care of inpatients, and the care of children. In her free time, she performs with an a cappella group, travels with her husband Jason, and snowshoes in the parks in and around Boston.

Michael N. Doupé, MD (Email me) - Director of Geriatrics and Medical Director, Glen Ridge Nursing Care Center; was raised in Denver, CO. Dr. Doupe' graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder and obtained his medical degree from the University of Colorado in Denver in 1973. After a rotating internship in Phoenix, AZ, he spent two years as a primary care physician with the Indian Health Service. Subsequently, he completed a family practice residency in Ventura, CA. in 1978. For the next thirteen years he engaged in a busy solo family practice in Roseburg, OR including obstetrical care. For five years he then worked in an HMO small group primary care practice with emphasis on geriatric care in Phoenix.

Dr. Doupe's strong interest in medical education led him to leave full-time clinical practice to join the Tufts residency's faculty. Along with an interest in geriatric care, he particularly enjoys teaching minor dermatologic procedures and demonstrates no-scalpel vasectomy. He also has an interest in musculoskeletal medicine, instructing frequently on use of steroid injections, splinting and performance of joint exams.

Since 1998 he has been serving as Medical Director of Glen Ridge Nursing Care Center, a position that has helped greatly expand the residents' geriatric experience. A number of appropriate geriatric topics are covered monthly with PGY2 and PGY3 residents as part of their nursing home time. Dr. Doupé has participated in seminars on "Improving Residency Training on End-of-Life Care." Pain management along with recognition and treatment of the entire spectrum of symptoms in terminal illness are now areas of emphasis in the curriculum. In 2004 he earned the title of Certified Medical Director under the auspices of the American Medical Director Association. In 2006, Dr. Doupé coshared the Sidney Zeitler Award with Dr. Karp for his significant contribution to the education of future family physicians at the Tufts residency program. He has coauthored topics on MRSA skin infections and reactive arthritis for Essential Evidence Plus.

His wife Beth, a graduate from Lesley College with a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling, works at a community counseling center. His daughter Lori presently holds the position of marketing communications manager for the Appalachian Mountain Club. He is now renewing his knowledge on developmental pediatrics when babysitting and tussling with his two year old grandson. Major achievements in the recent past include hiking the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and getting glimpses of the rare California condor and shy Grand Canyon rattlesnake. His ongoing passion for fantasy football league play continues to consume his fall seasons.

Andrea E. Gordon, MD (Email me) - practices the entire range of family care, including obstetrics. Originally from New York City, she graduated from Vassar College and received medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. During residency training at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Gordon developed an interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. To pursue this new and exciting area of medicine she completed the St. Margaret Memorial Hospital/ University of Pittsburgh faculty development fellowship. She has also completed the Associate Fellowship in Integrative Medicine lead by Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona, the first such fellowship in the country.

Dr. Gordon is actively involved in teaching and scholarship activities. She has co-authored a model curriculum for teaching integrative medicine that was published in Family Medicine. Her research on the usefulness of Therapeutic Touch in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee has been presented at national conferences and published in the Journal of Family Practice. Dr. Gordon has served on the faculty of the University of Washington, was Assistant Residency director of the Stamford, Connecticut program, and was a faculty member of the Harrisburg Family Practice Residency and Assistant Professor at the Penn State College of Medicine. She participated in the Samueli Institute Symposium to create research protocols and methodologies for studying healing energy, which was subsequently published as a supplement of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.

In addition to her work in Integrative Medicine, Dr. Gordon has trained and served as a Balint Group leader, an ALSO instructor and has co-lead the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine annual poetry and prose reading for many years. She has published articles on herbal products, eating disorders and currently serves as a reviewer for several medical journals. After training with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen she co-leads The Healer's Art course for first and second year Tufts Medical School students each yeat. She has received Excellence in Teaching awards from the residents at both the Stamford and Harrisburg programs and has received Certificates of Recognition from Penn State medical students for being both an Exceptional Teacher and an Exceptional Role Model. In 2007 Dr. Gordon was given the Sidney Zeitler Memorial Award for contributions to the education of future family physicians.

She is married to Dr. Allen Shaughnessy, who is also on the faculty. They have 2 cats and a beautiful 19 month old son. She enjoys getting outside and reading novels and mysteries - but has not done as much reading over the last 19 months!

Honor MacNaughton, MD - returns home to Boston to join the residency faculty in September 2010. She attended Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School before completing her family medicine residency here at Tufts. Following residency, she pursued her interests in family planning and residency training, through completion of the Falencki Fellowship in Reproductive Health Advocacy at the Institute for Family Health in New York City. She then joined the faculty at the Beth Israel family medicine residency in New York where she focused on reproductive health, procedural training and information mastery. While at Beth Israel she opened and managed a medical student-run free women's health clinic. She has presented nationally on a range of topics related to expanding family planning services offered within the family medicine setting as well as within student-run free clinics. She currently provides and teaches full spectrum reproductive health care within the residency. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her family, her partner Megan and their daughter.

George Maxted, MD - joins the faculty in October, 2010. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Duke University in 1980 and has been an active clinician, teacher, and medical leader ever since. Most recently he worked at the UMass Family Medicine Residency, starting in late 2006, as clinician, Assistant Clinical Professor, Education Director and Vice President for Medical Services at the Family Health Center of Worcester. This after moving from Durango, Colorado where he and his family had lived for 21 years. In Durango he served as Medical Director for Valley-Wide Health Systems from 2001 to 2006, and was twice President of the Medical Staff at Mercy Regional Medical Center. He was on the faculty of University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine from 1990 on, and was promoted to Associate Clinical Professor in 2000. In 2001 he retired from the Indian Health Service as a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, after a 21 year career that included five years on the Hopi Reservation and 16 years at the Southern Colorado Ute Service Unit. He has had numerous regional and national postings, and was particularly noted for developing a Workgroup on Aging and Geriatrics Program in the IHS.

Dr. Maxted has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics from 1988, recertified in 1997 and 2006. He also has a CAQ in Sports Medicine from 1995. He has been a Medical Director for most of his career, but comes to TFMR mainly to be a clinician, mentor and teacher. At UMass he found out he was pretty good at those things. He is interested in scholarly activity, such as authorship in medical literature, and really enjoys teaching residents. He has particular interest and skill in the areas of geriatrics, sports medicine, evidence-based medicine, metacognition, office procedures, pain management and the breadth of Family Medicine. His wife, Beth, is a nurse, and his four children have all left the nest, the last one flying off just this past spring.

Nicolas Nguyen, MD (Email me) - Nic was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. When he was sixteen-years-old, he moved to New Jersey and completed high school in 2 years. His educational endeavors then led him to Boston. He attended Tufts University, where he double majored in Biology and French Literature. There, he played varsity tennis under the NCAA, and also discovered the competitive world of ballroom dancing. He enjoyed his undergraduate training so much that he decided to pursue both his medical school and residency training at Tufts. He is very excited to join the team at Cambridge Health Alliance. Today, Nic splits his time as a family physician at the Malden Family Medicine Clinic and as a hospitalist at the Whidden Hospital campus. He likes the variety that these two settings allow: he gets to know people very well in the outpatient clinic and is able to care for patients in the intensive care unit. He also enjoys teaching medical students and training residents. In his free time, Nic is a creative writer and still dances at a professional competitive level. He has performed across America and Europe. More recently, you might have caught a glimpse of him on "So You Think You Can Dance."

Geoffrey Pechinsky, MD (Email me) – Joined the residency faculty in December 2008. He is originally from the Boston area, and is excited to return after serving for eight years in the Navy. He earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame, and attended medical school at Boston University on the military health professions scholarship program. After completing residency at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center he was stationed with the Navy in Puerto Rico, then Washington DC. He had planned to return to civilian life after four years, but when the Navy offered a chance to go to Spain for four years he and his wife could not resist.

While stationed in sunny Rota, Spain, Geoff served as the department head of primary care services, and as chairman of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Perinatal Advisory Board. He was also twice voted by patients as one of top three family physicians Navy wide. He deployed to the middle east in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. When not working he travelled whenever possible around Spain and the rest of Europe.

Geoff practices full spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics. He is an ALSO and NRP instructor, and enjoys doing and teaching office based procedures including colposcopy and vasectomy. His passion is working with an underserved and culturally diverse patient population. He is fluent in medical Spanish and is forever working on improving. His wife Kristin is a lawyer, and his son William is rapidly acquiring a Boston accent now that they are home. Geoff enjoys spending time with family, running, travel, and reading just about anything.

Judy Platt, MD (Email me) - is originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Scranton for her undergraduate training and completed medical school at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She then moved north to do her residency training in Family and Community Medicine at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. After residency, she stayed on as a faculty member at Albany and concentrated on Women's Health, Obstetrics, and colposcopy. In July of 2007 she moved to Boston and joined the Tufts Family Medicine Residency as the director of maternity care. She is an ALSO instructor and regularly meets with the medical students and residents to lecture on topics involving care of the female patient. She practices the full spectrum of family medicine including obstetrics and colposcopy. She and her husband Michael, who is on faculty at Boston University's Otolaryngology program, enjoy hiking, sailing, and spending time with their son Harrison.