2016 Speakers - The MedConference

Speakers

Francesco Boin, MD

Dr. Francesco Boin is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of California San Francisco and the Director of the UCSF Scleroderma Center. Dr. Boin received his M.D. degree from the University of Padova Medical School (Italy). He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical and experimental rheumatology at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland). He has been Director of the Translational Research program at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center for a decade before joining UCSF. Dr. Boin’s research has been focusing on the genetic basis and biology of immune cells involved with autoimmune diseases. He has been involved with teaching and mentoring medical students, residents and post-doctoral fellows throughout his academic career.

Farr Curlin, MD

Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion-associated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

Federica Fromm, DO

Federica Fromm, DO received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Classics at New York University, New York and then attended New York College of Osteopathic Medicine where she obtained her DO degree. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn NY, practiced as an internal medicine hospitalist for two years at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow NY and is currently a full time Hospitalist at St Cloud Hospital in Minnesota where she has been practicing for two years. She helped found and has been on the board of the American Association of Medicine and the Person and she has been on the planning committee for the annual MedConference since its first event in 2009.

Monica Goodwin, MD

Dr. Monica Goodwin is a board certified family physician and practices at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby, MN. Her special interests include women's health, obstetrics, and pediatrics. Dr. Goodwin obtained her undergraduate degree in Nutrition Science at the College of St. Benedict in MN and received her medical degree from the University of North Dakota. She completed her residency with the Duluth Family Practice Program in Minnesota. She and her husband, David, who is also a physician, have 5 children. In her free time she enjoys running, biking, swimming and making music.

Margaret Laracy, Psy.D

Margaret Laracy, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. She went on to complete doctoral studies at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, writing her dissertation on "The Role of Beauty in Psychotherapy." Dr. Laracy is in full-time practice at Vital Sources, a group practice in Frederick, Maryland. Working from a psychodynamic paradigm, she does therapy with individuals and couples, runs therapy groups, and does personality and cognitive assessments. She has taught at several graduate institutions and continues to teach on a part-time basis.

David Loxterkamp, MD

David Loxterkamp is a family physician who lives and works in Belfast, Maine. He is the author of two books, A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (1997) and What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care (2013), as well as numerous articles for professional and lay publication. He was featured in the 2015 documentary, "Rx: The Quiet Revolution," by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin. His interests include running, choral music, the history of American architecture, and potato farming.

Fran McCarthy, RN

Fran McCarthy has been a nurse for over 30 years. She was a bedside NICU nurse for 28 years, manager of the NICU and Pediatrics at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan for 2 years and is currently the Clinical Coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, working under the direction of Dr. Elvira Parravicini. Fran received her BSN from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her Master of Science as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner from Columbia University in 1998. She has always been interested in the psychological, emotional and spiritual perspective of nursing care in conjunction with clinical care. She has taught about bereavement care and support to new staff in the NICU core course and has lectured about Neonatal Comfort Care nationally and abroad. In her current role, Fran is responsible for arranging prenatal consults, coordinating interdisciplinary team support, attending deliveries, educating and assisting staff, follow-up support to families and research.

John E. Morley, MB, BCh

John E. Morley, MB, BCh, is the Dammert Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine as well as the Director of the Division of Endocrinology at Saint Louis University Medical Center. He also serves as Medical Director for two nursing homes. Dr Morley earned a medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. After an internal medicine residency in Johannesburg, he completed a fellowship in endocrinology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has edited more than 20 books, and published more than 1300 papers, with major research emphases on the role of neuropeptides in the modulation of hormonal responses and behavior and on nutrition and hormones in the elderly. He serves as Editor of Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Louis Profeta, MD

Dr. Profeta is an Emergency Physician from St. Vincent Hospital of Indianapolis. He is clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University and Marian University Schools of Medicine. He is a graduate of Indiana University and its school of Medicine and did his post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a dynamic and sought after public speaker and writer, frequent guest on TV and radio who has gained critical acclaimed for his essays and writings on topics such as his eye-opening look at our national preparedness for Influenza pandemics in "What Scares me More than Ebola." In 2015 he was named LinkedIn Top Voice for readership in health care. His scathingly sarcastic but passionate essay "Your Kid and My Kid Aren’t Playing in the Pros" was honored as one of best articles on sports in 2014 by the Society of Professional Journalism. His best selling book, The Patient in Room Nine Says He’s God, continues to earn critical acclaim as a poignant and passionate look at society, god and life through the eyes of an ER doctor. His most recent essay "I Know You Love Me Now Let Me Die" has been read more than three million times on Linked in and the Huffington Post and has sparked a whole new debate on end of life care.

James Roembke, PsyD

James Roembke, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and senior partner at Vital Sources Psychological Services, a group psychology practice in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Roembke completed his doctoral studies in clinical psychology at Biola University, Rosemead School of Psychology, where he wrote his dissertation on "Prevention of Burnout among Graduate Students and Young Professionals in Mental Health." In 2002, he and a colleague started Vital Sources, which has grown to 11 clinical staff and an intern and post-doctoral training program. The mission of Vital Sources is to create an authentic Christian community of health service providers to more fully serve their communities. Dr. Roembke is a psychodynamic therapist who works with adults and couples. He particularly enjoys his work with religious and seminarians.

Katherine Steere, MS CCC-SLP

Katherine Steere, MS CCC-SLP, is a Senior Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) who has spent her career in the acute care setting, specializing in pediatric and infant populations. She received her Master’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill where she initiated her training in pediatric dysphagia with a focus in the Neonatal ICU. While at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center she continued her work in acute care as well as served on the Cleft Lip and Palate team. Prior to starting in November 2012 as an SLP at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian/Columbia in Manhattan, she worked at the Center for Pediatric Feeding Disorders at St. Mary's Hospital in Bayside, NY. Katherine practices full time in the NICU at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian in addition to serving as a member of the Aerodigestive, Single Ventricle, and Comfort Care teams.

Rochelle Lebovitch Steinwurtzel, PsyD

Rochelle Steinwurtzel received her M.S.Ed. in School Psychology in 2008 and her Psy.D. in School and Clinical Psychology in 2011. She has worked clinically in psychiatric in-patient and out-patient units in urban hospitals in the Bronx. Prior to becoming an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology as staff psychologist for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center in 2014, she was the Assistant Director of the McShane Center for Psychological Services, a community-based out-patient clinic, affiliated with Pace University’s Psychology Doctoral Training Program.

Brad Stuart, MD

Dr. Stuart has been a general internist for 40 years, and a hospice and palliative medicine specialist for the last half of his career. He was Senior Medical Director at Sutter Care at Home for 20 years, during which he helped found Advanced Illness Management (AIM®), a system of home-based care for seriously ill seniors that won a $13 million Health Care Innovation Award in 2010 from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). He is now Chief Medical Officer for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) in Washington, DC, where he helps health systems, health plans and other organizations design and implement integrated systems of care for people with advanced illness.

Giuseppe Quaglia, MD

Giuseppe Quaglia was born in Turin, Italy, where he currently lives. He obtained his MD at the University of Turin, Italy in 1984. Subsequently he completed his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine in 1987 at the same university, and attended the Center for Rehabilitation for para-tetraplegic patients at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He obtained a master in Osteopathic Medicine in 1994 in Paris, France and a master in Acupuncture at the University of Turin, Italy in 2014. He has worked in Cottolengo Hospital in Turin since 1999 and has been named the Division Chief of the Department of Rehabilitation since 2001. He has been an invited speaker to several medical conferences and a great teacher to younger faculty, trainees and medical students.

Cory Yarke, MD, PhD

Cory Yarke MD, PhD received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He subsequently obtained a PhD in Immunology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis followed by an MD at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency training at Abbott Northwestern residency program in Minneapolis, MN followed by taking a hospitalist position at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He was also elected a council member of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Minnesota chapter and serves on the ACP Hospitalist group.

The MedConference 2016