Residency

Ball Memorial Family Medicine, Muncie, Ind.

Current Practice Location

Trinity Health Academic Family Medicine - Grand Rapids

Teaching or other awards

Chuck Morrill Teacher of the Year (2006-07), Outstanding Graduate Medical Educator - Core Faculty (2008-09)

Medical School

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Ind.

Current Activities, Research, Subspecialty or Professional Interests

My current activities and interests center on Practice Management and leveraging the Electronic Health Record to optimize patient and provider experience.  Our program has been transforming into a High Performing Primary Care Clinic through the Team Based Model of Care. This has allowed for multiple Clinical Quality Improvement projects and Process Improvements to occur simultaneously over the years.

Why I chose to practice in Grand Rapids...

Grand Rapids is the ideal mix of big city amenities and small town relationships. My wife and I discovered Grand Rapids as she was searching for a Level 1 trauma center for her Emergency Medicine Residency training and I was seeking a to continue practicing full scope Family Medicine - inpatient, ambulatory and obstetrics. We found both of these opportunities with the Medical Square Mile of downtown Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids offers a medically diverse experience with the benefits of university affiliation and the comforts of community-based education.

I joined the faculty in 2006, shortly after moving to Michigan. I am unabashedly a transplanted Hoosier, graduating from Hanover College in 1998, Indiana University School of Medicine in 2002 and completing my Family Medicine Residency at Ball Memorial Hospital in 2005. I was drawn to FM as a specialty because I enjoyed interacting with all ages of patients, teaching them about their diseases and partnering with them in their health care. In a similar way, I have been drawn into residency education, striving to help residents grow in their knowledge and passion for family medicine.