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207 Charlotte Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 251-2700
(828) 251-2725 (fax)
lisa@familytofamily.org
Employment
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1/99 - Present
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Family to Family: Your Home
For Whole Family Health. Asheville,
NC. Co-creator and owner of a family health center.
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9/98 – 12/99
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WestCare Health System. Bryson City,NC. Emergency room physician at Swain
County Hospital.
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6/96 - 6/98
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Mountain Area Health Education
Center: Family Practice Residency. Asheville,
NC. Family medicine resident. Scope of practice: Inpatient
& outpatient family practice, with emphasis on maternity care and family
therapy.
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10/94 - 5/96
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University of New Mexico,
Family and Community Medicine: Faculty. Mountainair,
New Mexico. Physician and teaching faculty at a rural clinic 80 miles
from the nearest hospital. Scope of practice: General family practice,
prenatal care, acute care/emergency services, counseling and teaching medical
students and residents.
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8/92 -8/94
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Yukon-Kuskokwim Health
Corporation. Bethel, Alaska.
Part-time medical staff physician at this 40 bed-community hospital and
clinic which serves 20,000 Eskimo and Athabaskan people. Scope of
practice: Outpatient family practice, colposcopy, and cryotherapy, full
inpatient privileges.
University of Alaska: Kuskokwim Campus. Bethel, Alaska. Part-time Associate Clinical Faculty
for the Community Health Aide Program. Scope of practice:
Instructor for native Alaskan village health care workers.
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9/91 - 6/92
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Bernalillo County Juvenile
Detention Center. Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Physician for detained youth.
Department of Federal Environmental and Occupational Health. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Physician for federal
employees. Scope of practice: Physical exams, occupational health
screening, preventive services.
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9/91 - 1/92
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Albuquerque Family Health
Center. New Mexico. Part-time
physician at this federally funded community health center. Scope of
practice: Outpatient family medicine.
Education
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Education
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6/96 - 8/98
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Mountain Area Health Education
Center: Family Practice Residency, Asheville, NC. Completed PGY 2 -PGY 3.
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8/95 - 12/95
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New Mexico Herb Institute,
Albuquerque, NM.
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8/91 - 5/92
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1000 hr. course in the basic
Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine followed by Clinical Herbal
Apprenticeship. Diagnosis/treatment of patients and maintenance of
herbal pharmacy under guidance of Tieraona LowDog, M.D.
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Education
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6/90-8/91
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University of New Mexico,
Department of Family and Community Medicine. Completed family practice internship.
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8/88 - 4/89
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University of Ilorin, Nigeria,
West Africa. International Health
Fellowship Program. Field research and community cooperation on
strategies to eradicate guinea worm. Clinical experience in several
rural hospitals.
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8/85 - 6/90
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University of Michigan Medical
School, Ann Arbor. Completed
Doctorate of Medicine requirements.
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9/82 - 5/85
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Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL. Bachelor of
Arts. Anthropology, Honors thesis: Culture, Perception, and Illness.
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Community-Oriented Primary Care
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7/87 - 7/88
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Prison Health Preceptorship. Jackson State Prison, Jackson, MI and Cermak Health
Services, Chicago, IL. Creation, management, and directorship of a
preceptorship in penal institutions for medical students.
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6/86-8/86
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Health Promotion/Disease
Prevention Project. Sea Mar
Community Health Center, Mt. Vernon, WA. Assessment of migrant farm
worker community health needs, family planning grant proposal, migrant labor
camp outreach program.
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Presentations and Publications
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“Integrative Medicine: Blending
Wisdom and Compassion.” North Carolina Association of Social Workers
Annual Meeting. Asheville, NC, 11/12/99.
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“ Let Food Be Your
Medicine: Let Medicine Be Your Food”, North Carolina Association
of Social Workers Annual Meeting. Asheville, NC, 11/12/99.
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“Herbal Remedies: A Rational
Approach”, presented at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, Elkin , NC,
9/98.
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“The Appropriate Use of Herbal
Remedies in Women’s Health” Regional AWHONN Conference, Chapel Hill,
NC, 5/98.
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A letter From Within: a prison
health preceptorship, The New Physician, Oct. 1988, p. 28-29.
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“Guinea Worm Eradication:
Observations from the Field”, presented at the 2nd national meeting of
Nigerian Guinea Worm Eradication Program, Federal Secretariat, Nigeria,
October 1988.
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“Recruitment and Retention of
Physicians into Medically Underserved Areas: A Student’s Perspective”
presented at the 1987 Meeting National Association of Community Health
Centers.
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Certification:
Board-certified in Family Practice 9/98, ALSO Instructor 1/98, ATLS 1/99,
ACLS 3/98
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