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More Rural FP Profiles
Read the stories of rural family physicians previously profiled on the Rural Online Community. Also, be sure to check out links to published articles profiling other rural family physicians at the bottom of the page.
David Ray Baines, MD (Unalaska, AK) -- For Dr. David Baines, fishing isn't the only sport in rural Alaska that should be experienced by all.
Arlene Brown, MD (Ruidoso, NM) -- For more than 25 years, Dr. Arlene Brown has balanced her commitment to patient care with planned time for her family in one of the most beautiful regions of the country. And thanks in part to her efforts, Ruidoso residents can enjoy listening to Tchaikovsky and Chesney.
John Cullen, MD (Valdez, AK) -- A brochure cover and his daughter's appetite for salmon may have first led John Cullen and family to visit Valdez, Alaska. But fourteen years later, the reasons they stayed are as vast and complex as the breathtaking frontier community they call home.
Dr. Christian Cupp (Scott City, KS) built his practice on the "pillars" of his childhood who preceded him in Scott City. They taught him about caring for family and friends with grace, dignity and quiet confidence, and emerging even stronger from the relationships that grow from his role as a rural family physician.
James Damos, MD (Baraboo, WI) enjoys a unique full-circle view of rural family medicine that provides historical context, and an understanding of the needs of future family physicians, as program director for the Baraboo Rural Training Program, and as a rural family physician.
Lynn Fisher, MD (Plainville, KS) -- During the four years since completing residency, Dr. Lynn Fisher has been busy building the kind of practice that fills his medical interests, while serving his community's health care needs.
For Alan Glaseroff, MD (Arcata, CA), rural family medicine offers a unique intersection that supports his passions for cradle-to-grave patient care, quality improvement design for chronic care, being close to family and friends, accompanied by the occasional blues riff.
Robert Matthies, MD (Prescott, Az) -- Dr. Matthies' 50-year career has taken him on circuitous paths through Illinois, Idaho, Washington, Arizona, to the Gulf Region. Helping local physicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, working with Hopi and Navajo communities, conducting medical missions to Haiti -- his interpretation of a house call is difficult to top.
Carter Mayberry, MD (Benzon, AZ; standing) was one of three brothers in his family to choose family medicine. But it was his two rotations on Whiteriver Apache Indian Reservation that helped solidify his decision to practice rural family medicine.
Bob Moser, MD FAAFP (Tribune, KS) -- For Dr. Bob Moser, caring for his rural community for two decades has meant adjusting and expanding his practice to meet the growing needs of two western Kansas counties, while encouraging his potential replacements, much like his predecessors encouraged him.
Amalia Pineres, MD (Payson, AZ), who followed in her father's footsteps, values the friends and relationships she has formed in her community, and the quality of life rural doctoring affords.
Risha Raven, MD (Polo, IL) attended a Chicago high school that was roughly the population size of the community she now serves. But it was the appeal of providing full-spectrum care, particularly OB, and the pace of life that pulled Dr. Raven away from the city to raise her children in a caring rural community.
Also In the News...
Charles Raye, MD (Pueblo, CO)
The Pueblo Chieftain; 'Raye' of hope
Ben Edwards, MD (Post, TX)
TexasMonthly (subscription); Ben Edwards, 33, Small-Town Family Doctor
The Pueblo Chieftain; 'Raye' of hope
Ben Edwards, MD (Post, TX)
TexasMonthly (subscription); Ben Edwards, 33, Small-Town Family Doctor
More Rural FP Profiles