NEW HIRES
Josephine Conte, D.O., joined Central Maine Medical Center as a faculty member for its residency program.
Conte, a graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, brings experience working as a personal trainer, a childbirth educator and wellness educator.

 

Thomas Hoke, M.D., joined the staff at Central Maine Sports Medicine, a Central Maine Medical Group practice in Lewiston.
Hoke recently completed a fellowship in sports medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland. He serves as team physician for both the Lewiston/Auburn Fighting Spirit juniors hockey team and Poland Regional High School.

 

Maine Coast Memorial Hospital hired Charles Radis, D.O., and David Engelbrecht, M.D., specialists in rheumatology. Both will see patients in the Mary Dow Center.
Radis previously practiced at Rheumatology Associates in Portland for 23 years. He recently retired from full-time practice, but continues to see patients in the Ellsworth region.

 

Dr. Engelbrecht previously practiced in New York for 25 years.

 

 

 

 

Spurwink has hired the following people:
Jessie Graham joined as lead speech language pathologist. Graham comes to Spurwink from Vermont, where she worked for 25 years providing speech/language and child development services.

 

 

Sharon Bolduc joined Spurwink’s finance department in Portland as a billing clerk. Bolduc previously worked at BMS Practice Solutions in Saco.

 

 

 

Samantha Leeman joined as a public school counselor in Sabattus and Litchfield Primary Schools. Leeman was previously the assistant director for children’s behavioral health services at Centro Las Americas in Massachusetts.

 

 

Three new physicians joined Maine Medical Partners.
Heidi Golden, M.D., joined its endocrinology and diabetes center. Golden is fellowship-trained in endocrinology and will specialize in general endocrinology, diabetes, thyroid and parathyroid disease, osteoporosis, pituitary disease and adrenal disease.

 

 

Christine Kleinman, D.O., and Kathryn Brouillette, M.D.C.M, joined its hospital medicine department.
Kleinman will work at Maine Medical Center and Stephens Memorial Hospital, and teach for its family medicine program.
Brouillette completed her residency at MMC, where she is a clinical

associate with Tufts School of Medicine.

 

 

 

 

Aly Finn has joined the American Red Cross as its new disaster program specialist.
Finn joins the Maine team from the Florida Red Cross, where she was a community outreach and disaster education specialist.
Previously, she served as an assistant team leader with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, FEMA, in Sacramento, Calif.

 

Bridgton Pediatrics has hired Michael Vinograd, M.D., to join its Central Maine Medical Group practice at Bridgton Hospital.
Vinograd comes to Maine from Brooklyn, New York, where he spent the last three years completing his medical training at New York Methodist Hospital, also in Brooklyn.

 

Maine Coast Memorial Hospital and Southwest Harbor Medical Center hired Clarke Baxter, M.D., as a primary care physician.
Baxter is relocating to Southwest Harbor from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught and practiced family medicine for several years before opening a private practice in 1994. In June of 2011, he associated his practice with the Mercy Health System.

 

PROMOTIONS
Mount Desert Island Hospital has promoted Robin Fisher to director of medical imaging.
She joined the organization in 2013 as the CT/X-ray supervisor.

 

 

 

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Two nurses at Maine Medical Center were recognized by the American Nursing Association – Maine.
Marjorie Wiggins, senior vice president of patient care services at MMC, received The President’s Award for being “instrumental in promoting professional nursing practice at MMC, Maine and nationally.”

 

 

Deborah Bachand, a nursing director, was recognized with the Agnes Flaherty Leadership Award, which recognizes “a registered nurse leader who demonstrates leadership, courage and dedication in his or her interactions with patients and families, staff and coworkers, the profession and the community.”

 

 

Carol Bult, Ph.D., a cancer researcher at The Jackson Laboratory, was appointed to the Knowlton Family Chair, an endowed professorship newly established by Winthrop Knowlton, chairman emeritus of the laboratory’s board of trustees.
Bult, who joined the JAX faculty in 1999, has been a principal investigator in the Mouse Genome Informatics consortium, building the genetic and genomic databases. Bult is deputy director of the Laboratory’s National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, and scientific director of the PDX/Cancer Avatar program, leading the study of human tumors and their response to treatment on the platform of special, immune-deficient mice.

Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor was recognized for achieving the Gold Star Standard of Excellence from the Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network for its effort to create a tobacco-free environment and support tobacco-free lifestyles.

Steve Kelley, a certified vision rehabilitation therapist, has received the Thomas Caulfield Award.
Kelley, a professional at The Iris Network in Maine, was recognized for sharing his expertise in access technology both statewide and nationally through speaking engagements, published articles and his website.

 

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
Hospice of Southern Maine elected the following new officers and board members to its board of directors.
Edward McGeachey III, president of Southern Maine Health Care, was named board chairman; Gayle Brazeau, Ph.D., professor and dean at University of New England, College of Pharmacy, was named vice-chair; Kevin Montminy, director of audit and compliance at MaineHealth, was elected treasurer; Maryanna Arsenault, a health care consultant, was named secretary; and Miriam Leonard, vice president of value improvement at MaineHealth, was named past board chair.
Elected to the board were Laurence Gross, executive director of Southern Maine Agency on Aging; Heidi Hanson, principal of HN Hansen and Co.; Angela Orr, owner and director of Good for All Pharmacy and independent distributor for Jeunesse Global; Adam Walker, funeral director and owner of Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Homes and Cremation Services; and Paul Wolf, president of Kennebunk Investment Service, who served as an interim director. All will serve a three-year term.

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