Donald Gemson Resident Award
- 2023: Grace Price, MD MPH
- 2021: E. Katherine Nenninger, MD MPH
Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine
- Tina Holt, MD MSc FACPM
Community collaboration Award, Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME)
- 2021: Leadership in Preventive Medicine Fellowship
Founder’s Award, Leadership in Preventive Medicine Fellowship
- 2024: Christina DeMatteo, DO, MPH
- 2023: Marin Johnson, MS
- 2022: Wendy Osgood, MS
- 2021: Michael Roy, MD
- 2020: Sharon McDonnell, MD, MPN, BSN & R. Gib Parrish, MD MPH
- 2019: Tina Holt, MD MSc, FACPM
- 2018: Jo Linder, MD
- 2017: Ann Skelton, MD, Peter Bates, MD, Deb Deatrick, MPH
Substance Use Disorder Provider Education Materials
Strategies for Addressing COVID-19
- Collaboration among MMC, LPM, and UNE with funding from AAMC.
Just in Five: Brief informational training videos for physicians on behavioral health techniques
COVID –19 Vaccination Campaign Video
Project ECHO
- Overcoming Barriers to Immigrant Healthcare (2021-2022)
- Improving Clinical Care with Community Health Workers (2022-2023)
2023
- Kowalski-Mcgraw M, McLellan RK, Berenji M, Saito K, Green-McKenzie J, Thompson H, Hudson TW 3rd. Electronic Health Records and Occupational Data: A Call for Promoting Interoperability. J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Jul 1;65(7):e520-e526. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002888. Epub 2023 May 26. PMID: 37235451.
- Isakari M, Sanchez A, Conic R, Peretti J, Saito K, Sitapati AM, Millen M, Longhurst C. Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning Occupational Health to an Enterprise Electronic Health Record. J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Jul 1;65(7):615-620. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002864. Epub 2023 Apr 11. PMID: 37043385; PMCID: PMC10332650.
- Thakarar K, Kohut M, Stoddard H, Burris D, Chessa F, Sikka MK, Solomon DA, Kershaw CM, Eaton E, Hutchinson R, Fairfield KM, Friedmann P, Stopka TJ. 'I feel like they're actually listening to me': a pilot study of a hospital discharge decision-making conversation guide for patients with injection drug use-associated infections. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 3;10:20499361231165108. doi: 10.1177/20499361231165108. PMID: 37034032; PMCID: PMC10074622.
- Brooks YM, Gryskwicz B, Sidaway E, Shelley B, Coroi L, Downing M, Downing T, McDonnell S, Ostrye D, Hoop K, Parrish G. A case study of a community-organized wastewater surveillance in a small community: correlating weekly reported COVID-19 cases with SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations during fall 2020 to summer 2021 in Yarmouth, ME. J Water Health. 2023 Mar;21(3):329-342. doi: 10.2166/wh.2023.238. PMID: 37338313.
- Minnehan KS, Dexter WW, Holt CT, Scharnetzki L, Alex JP, Chin KE, Kokmeyer DJ. Validation of Panoramic Ultrasound Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Vastus Medialis. J Strength Cond Res. 2023 Jan 1;37(1):41-45. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000004196. Epub 2022 Jan 12. PMID: 36515588.
2022
- Moore N, Kohut M, Stoddard H, Burris D, Chessa F, Sikka MK, Solomon D, Kershaw CM, Eaton E, Hutchinson R, Fairfield KM, Stopka TJ, Friedmann P, Thakarar K. Health care professional perspectives on discharging hospitalized patients with injection drug use-associated infections. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 6;9:20499361221126868. doi: 10.1177/20499361221126868. PMID: 36225855; PMCID: PMC9549088.
- Ivsins A, Fleming T, Barker A, Mansoor M, Thakarar K, Sue K, McNeil R. The practice and embodiment of "goofballs": A qualitative study exploring the co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids. Int J Drug Policy. 2022 Sep;107:103791. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103791. Epub 2022 Jul 10. PMID: 35830749; PMCID: PMC10894463.
- Thakarar K, Kohut M, Hutchinson R, Bell R, Loeb HE, Burris D, Fairfield KM. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in an rural American state. Harm Reduct J. 2022 Jul 22;19(1):80. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00660-2. PMID: 35869523; PMCID: PMC9305035.
2021
- Gowda V, Cheng G, Saito K. The B Reader Program, Silicosis, and Physician Workload Management: A Niche for AI Technologies. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jul 1;63(7):e471-e473. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002271. PMID: 34016915.
- Thakarar K, Kulkarni A, Lodi S, Walley AY, Lira MC, Forman LS, Colasanti JA, Del Rio C, Samet JH. Emergency Department Utilization Among People Living With HIV on Chronic Opioid Therapy. J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2021 Jan-Dec;20:23259582211010952. doi: 10.1177/23259582211010952. PMID: 33888001; PMCID: PMC8072919.
Spring 2016: Population Health: All Hands on Deck: Charting a Course for Healthy Maine
• Keynote: Dr. Boris Lushniak, former Surgeon General, “The Shift to Prevention and Wellness - Can we do it?”
Fall 2016: Health Care Disparities: Cultivating the Nation’s Healthiest Communities: Uprooting Maine’s Many Healthcare Disparities
• Keynote: Dr. Camara Jones, APHA president, “Achieving Health Equity: A Gardener's Tale”
October 2017: Provider Resilience: Caring for Ourselves as We Care for Others
• Keynote: Drs. Christine and Robert Sinsky, AAMC Board Members, “In Search of Joy in Practice”
October 2018: Violence, Guns and the Health Environment
• Keynote: David Hemenway, PhD, Harvard University
October 2019: Widening the Lens: Focus on Social Determinants of Health
• Keynotes: John Auerbach, MBA, Dora Ann Mills, MD, MPH, Jeanne Lambrew, PhD
October 2020: Food for Health and Healing
• Keynotes: Tim Harlan, MD, Goldring Institute, Tulane University; Kristin Miale, Good Shepherd Food Bank
October 2021: Emerging From COVID-19: From Reaction to Action
• Keynote: Josh Sharfstein, MD MPH, Johns Hopkins University
October 2022: Language of Health
• Keynote: Malvina Gregory, Director of Interpreter and Cross-Cultural Services, MaineHealth
October 2023: Healthy People, Healthy Planet
• Keynote: Tess Wiskel, MD, MPH, Climate and Human Health Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
October 2024: Care in Crisis: Navigating the Intersection of Health Care Access and Population Health
• Keynote: Deshawn Taylor, MD, MSc, Associate Clinical Professor of OB/Gyn at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, CEO of Desert Star Institute for Family Planning