MOA 114th Annual Convention On Demand

Elisa Mercuro, DO Related Seminars and Products

Elisa Mercuro is a functional medicine / osteopathic physician in private practice in New Hampshire. Her focus is preventing and reversing chronic disease and empowering her patients to find Health. 

Elisa Mercuro, DO, and the MOA Planning Committee disclose that they have no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation

Emil Lesho, DO Related Seminars and Products

Rochester Regional Hospital

Emil P. Lesho, DO, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA is an Infectious Diseases physician and the Healthcare Epidemiologist for Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY. Previously, Dr. Lesho served for 26 years on active duty in the U.S. Army. Following his deployment to Iraq, he was the Cofounder and Director of the Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network and the Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Program (MRSN-ARMoR) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, which is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) flagship agency for conducting epidemiologic surveillance and applied research of multidrug-resistant organisms isolated from healthcare associated infections including war trauma.

Dr. Lesho graduated magna cum laude from DeSales University, Center Valley, PA with a degree in biology, and from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia PA with D.O. degree.  He trained in Internal Medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA and in Infectious Diseases at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.  Dr. Lesho has co-authored 168 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. He holds the position of Professor of Medicine (inactive) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, and has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally on various internal medicine and infectious diseases topics, and most recently on the escalating crisis of antibiotic resistance.

Dr. Emil Lesho, DO, and the MOA Planning Committee disclose that they have no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.

Lisa Letourneau, MD, MPH, FAC Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Lisa Letourneau is an experienced physician leader and passionate advocate for health care system delivery change.  She currently serves as Senior Advisor to Maine DHHS Commissioner Lambrew, supporting a range of health care change efforts.  She currently helps to support several aspects of Maine’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including testing and vaccination efforts.  Additionally, she provides leadership for DHHS rural health transformation efforts, as well as clinical aspects of Maine’s opioid response and MaineCare Value-Based Payment efforts.  Prior to joining the DHHS team, she served as Executive Director for Maine Quality Counts and previously served as Senior Director of Clinical Integration for Maine Health.
 

Dr. Letourneau has no disclosures. 

K Emily Redding, DO Related Seminars and Products

K. Emily Redding, DO is Director of the Northern Light EMMC ONMM3 Residency and is faculty at the NL EMMC Family Medicine Residency. She is the Chair of the ONMM Postdoctoral Training Committee of the AAO and on the ACGME ONMM Residency Board of Appeals. She did her training at Eastern Maine Medical Center: 2010 NMM/OMM Plus One Residency, 2009 Family Medicine, 2007 St John's Episcopal Hospital South Shore (Surgery/Family Medicine), and WVSOM - Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, 2006 (Internship). She completed medical school at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2005 (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). She holds the following board certifications: American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians (Family Medicine/OMT) & American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (ONMM).

Dr. Redding has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.  

Matija Burtis, DO Related Seminars and Products

Graduated from University of New England with Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine in 1997. Completed Residency in Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts in 1999. Worked for St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston for 16 years as a Primary Care Provider. Founded St. Mary’s Weight Management Center in 2011 and has been working as an Obesity Medicine Specialist for the past 11 years. Joined Maine Medical Center in August of 2018 and is the Clinical Lead for Adult Obesity Program at MMC Weight and Wellness. Is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Medicine  the Maine Osteopathic Association, and the Obesity Medicine Association. She has served a Board Member for the Auburn YMCA in the past and currently sits as a Board member for the Bath Brunswick YMCA. She has two sons in college and lives in Brunswick with her husband of 29 years.

Dr. Burtis and the MOA Planning Committee disclose that they have no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.

Isaac Benowitz, MD Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Isaac Benowitz is the State Epidemiologist at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, where he provides epidemiological expertise, guidance, and support on disease investigations, outbreak control, surveillance activities, and planned epidemiologic studies. He leads Maine CDC’s COVID-19 therapeutics program. Before joining Maine CDC in 2021, he worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for seven years focusing on communicable disease outbreaks and healthcare-associated infections. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Yale School of Medicine and completed pediatric residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Isaac Benowitz has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.

Courtney Pladsen, DNP, FNP-BC Related Seminars and Products

MaineCare Medical Director

Dr. Courtney Pladsen DNP, FNP-C has worked in the health care safety net for over 15 years in Emergency Departments and FQHCs. She is a Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner with a clinical focus on substance use treatment and harm reduction for people experiencing homelessness. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Georgetown University where her research explored screening and addressing social determinants of health in primary care. From 2018-2022 she was a fellow with the RWJF Culture of Health Leaders program. Prior to starting as the Medical Director for MaineCare, Courtney was the Clinical Director at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council from 2020-2023. Courtney led the development of Maine’s first medical respite program, which opened in fall of 2022, in partnership with Maine Medical Center, Greater Portland Health, and Preble Street. While she continues to practice one day a week at Greater Portland Health’s Health Care for the Homeless Clinic, Courtney is passionate about improving health systems to provide equitable care for the most marginalized individuals in our community.

Courtney Pladsen has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.

Matt Gilbert, DO Related Seminars and Products

Matthew Gilbert, DO, MPH is a Professor of Medicine, Director of the Endocrine Fellowship Program in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont and the University of Vermont Health Network Director of Diabetes. A graduate of The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, Maine in 2003, Dr. Gilbert completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, New York. Dr. Gilbert received his Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health in 1999 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Susquehanna University in 1998.  His current research interests include the impact of diabetes treatments in older adults and quality improvement regarding the care of patients with diabetes in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Dr. Gilbert is a member of the Endocrine Society, The American Diabetes Association and The American Thyroid Association. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two children.

Matt Gilbert, DO discloses that he is a national consultant for Novo Nordisk, which is not in any way affiliated with this presentation.

Tristan Reynolds, DO Related Seminars and Products

Tristan Reynolds, DO is a Mainer who earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Pennsylvania State University and attended medical school at University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE COM). While a medical student, Tristan was awarded a one-year OMM/anatomy pre- doctoral teaching fellowship. Tristan subsequently completed a PGY1 year in OB/GYN and, realizing that it was not the right fit, left residency to pursue academia as an assistant clinical professor at UNE COM.
He taught first and second year medical students for 5 years and rose to co-course director of UNE COM’s Year 1 Osteopathic Clinical Skills, an integrated clinical skills/anatomy/OMM course. Tristan returned to residency training at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency (MDFMR) where he was a co-chief resident. He stayed on as full time faculty at MDFMR where he does outpatient, inpatient, and obstetrics. Tristan has specific clinical interests in diagnostic reasoning, cardiology, and addiction medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, birding, home renovation, travel, and caring for his rambunctious children.

Tristan Reynolds, DO has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.

Douglas Comeau, DO Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Douglas Comeau currently serves as the Director of University Health Services and primary Care Sports Medicine at Boston College. He attended medical school at UNECOM in Biddeford, ME. Dr. Comeau completed his family medicine residency at Tufts University, where he was administrative chief resident. He then went on to complete a primary care sports medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University. Dr.Comeau joined the Mass General Brigham-Newton-Wellesley Sports Medicine team in July 2020, seeing patients of all ages and athletic abilities. His clinical interests include osteopathic manipulation, concussion management, research, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries.

In addition to his clinical practice at Boston College and NWH sports medicine, Dr.Comeau serves as head medical team physician for the Boston Bruins, finish line medical tent physician at the Boston Marathon, and faculty for the Boston University sports medicine fellowship. He is a clinical associate professor in family medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Comeau also holds national positions for the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine (AMSSM), including serving as the Massachusetts state legislative contact for the Practice and Policy Committee and serving as co-chair of the case review sub-committee for the Education Committee.

Dr. Comeau has lectured regionally, nationally, and internationally on sports-related concussions, exercise prescription, and osteopathic manipulation. Dr. Comeau is board-certified in family medicine and has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. He also holds the distinction of being named a fellow of both the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP) and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (FAMSSM).

Dr. Comeau has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement, or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.