Program faculty
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Austin G. Bailey, M.D., program director
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A graduate of the University of Texas and Texas Tech University, Dr. Bailey is the director of the residency program and as such oversees its mission and strategic development. He has a special interest in systems-based practice and family systems medicine. Dr. Bailey has previously served as medical director of the Fort Collins Individual Practice Association, helping physicians interface with managed care plans.
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Janell R. Wozniak, M.D., physician associate director
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Originally from central Illinois, Dr. Wozniak is a graduate of Loyola University Medical School in Chicago. She completed her residency at the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program in 2000. She then spent five years practicing full-spectrum family medicine on the very remote Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona before returning to join the faculty in 2005. She recently became the Physician Associate Director of the residency program and is thoroughly enjoying working so closely with the residents. Her other professional interests include rural medicine and women's health.
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Kristen L. Benè, M.S., educational associate director
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Kristen joined our program in 2002 to evaluate a federal residency training grant and now serves as the educational associate director. She works with faculty to design resident educational activities, supports scholarly activity and curriculum development, coordinates residency training grants, and oversees the education team. Kristen received her graduate degree in educational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She has completed coursework for her doctorate in educational leadership at Colorado State University and is working on a dissertation that focuses on the use of problem-based learning in family medicine education.
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David R. Marchant, M.D., clinic medical director
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Dr. David Marchant graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He then went to Anchorage, Alaska, for residency training. After residency, he worked in Juneau, Alaska, at SEARHC, a native Alaskan clinic. He subsequently relocated to Fort Collins in 2001, when he joined Salud Family Health Centers. He served as a member of the residency program's Clinical Faculty at that time. In May 2004, Dr. Marchant joined the program as a faculty physician.
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Carol Pfaffly, Ph.D., associate director, behavioral health services
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Dr. Pfaffly received her doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is responsible for developing and implementing the behavioral medicine curriculum for first-, second-, and third-year residents. Additionally, she trains counseling interns to work in medical settings and provides counseling services to patients of the medical clinic. Dr. Pfaffly has been with the residency program since 1991.
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Mark A. Schifferns, CPA, Administrative Associate Director
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Mark Schifferns is a graduate of the University of Colorado where his main fields of study were accounting and human resources management. He earned his certified public accountant license in 1976. Mark has been involved in medical practice management and a member of the MGMA for the past 12 years. He coordinates and teaches the practice management portion of the curriculum, in addition to supervising all non-physician staff. Among his other duties, he is the finance and budget manager for the residency program. Mark's special interests include white water rafting, vintage-car racing and music.
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Tasha P. Ballard, Ph.D., RN, lifestyle medicine educator
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Tasha's training includes a B.S./M.S. in health and exercise from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in nutrition. Tasha coordinates the Clinical Lifestyles Medicine program, as well as contributing to the sports nutrition and lifestyle medicine curricula. Her professional interests include health behavior change, motivational interviewing, and using lifestyle modification and exercise in medicine.
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Roger Bermingham, M.D., faculty physician, geriatrics
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Dr. Roger Bermingham did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College, Medical School at UCLA, and his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Iowa. After spending seven years practicing in rural Colorado, Dr. Bermingham joined the faculty of the Residency in 1987 and served as program director from 1996 until the beginning of 2001. Dr. Bermingham is certified in geriatrics and since 2001 has had a private practice of geriatrics and nursing home medicine separate from the Residency. He recently increased his time with the Residency to coordinate the curriculum in geriatrics, ethics, and to assist with the curriculum in humanities.
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Bernard Birnbaum, M.D., faculty physician
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Dr. Bernard "Bernie" Birnbaum, originally from Chapel Hill, N.C., graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a Family Medicine Residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Penn. He then worked for four years in Chinle, Ariz., with the Indian Health Service in a remote area of the Navajo reservation. In addition to practicing full-spectrum family medicine, he worked in a school-based adolescent health clinic and served as the chief of the department of family medicine. Special interests include adolescent health and pregnancy, community medicine, quality improvement processes, and the care of the underserved.
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Cherie Glazner M.D., MSPH, faculty physician
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A Colorado native who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in North Africa prior to medical school, Dr. Glazner is an honors graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, earning both an M.D. and M.S.P.H. She completed her family medicine residency at Santa Rosa Community Hospital and subsequently worked for Sutter Health in private practice. She completed her Faculty Development Fellowship at University of California, San Francisco and joined the Fort Collins faculty in 1997. She loves sharing with the residents her special interests in procedures, women's health, inpatient medicine, international health, and patient stories. She continues to travel around the world at every opportunity and stays busy outside of medicine raising her teenagers and tending her garden.
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Mark Hoenig, M.D, clinical faculty
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Mark Hoenig, M.D. is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine where he took special interest in preventive medicine, family practice and nutrition. Doctor Hoenig is a graduate of the Fort Collins Family Practice Residency where he served as chief resident and focused on preventive medicine, indigent care and rural health. Upon graduation in 1992, Dr. Hoenig served as a bilingual provider and medical director for several years at a migrant community health center in Moses Lake, WA. Thereafter, he returned to Fort Collins where he worked at Salud Clinic and served as a clinical faculty member to local family medicine residents. Currently Dr. Hoenig works part time in a rural family practice, teaches family practice residents, and is expanding his functional medicine practice and therapeutic lifestyle programs with Tri-Life Health P.C.. Dr. Hoenig’s professional interests include nutrition, wellness, prevention, and healthy aging. Doctor Hoenig has lived in Fort Collins for over fifteen years and shares his life with his wife Sue and his four teenage children; Ryan, Eric, Austin and Tessa. He has many interests including running, bicycling, hiking, rock climbing, art, chili peppers, and practicing his Spanish.
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Zeljko Ivanovic, M.D., faculty physician, psychiatry
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Dr. Zeljko Ivanovic has practiced psychiatry on four continents. After graduating from medical school in Serbia and Montenegro, he headed to South Africa and completed his medical internship and attended the psychiatry residency program at the University of Natal in Durban. After passing the USMLE exams, Dr. Ivanovic moved to the USA and completed a residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Next, he moved to New Zealand and worked as only one of four Forensic Psychiatrists on the South Island. In 2001 he returned to the United States and worked in the oldest public psychiatric hospital in the USA in Williamsburg, VA. After several years, he joined Alabama Psychiatric Services for a little more than seven years. The allure of a healthy outdoor lifestyle brought the Ivanovic family to Colorado in 2012. He works for the Health District of Northern Larimer County and consults at the Medical Health Clinic, Poudre Valley Hospital, Medical Center of the Rockies, Community Mental Health Center and Mountain Crest Hospital. He also provides consultations at The Family Medicine Center and teaches family practice residents.
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Colleen McCreery, D.O., clinical faculty
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Dr. Colleen McCreery was raised in Colorado Springs. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.S. in biopsychology in 1994. Dr. McCreery enjoyed one year in St. John, U.S.V.I. before attending medical school. She received her D.O. degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. She completed an AOA/AMA dually accredited Family Practice residency at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. After completing her training, Dr. McCreery happily returned at last to Colorado and joined Associates in Family Medicine in September 2002. She began teaching part-time at the Family Medicine Center in 2008. Her practice includes the full spectrum of family medicine with special interests in obstetrics, women's health, and osteopathic manipulative medicine. In her free time, Dr. McCreery enjoys rock climbing, hiking, skiing, yoga, and travel. She is happily married and has two daughters and one dog.
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Laurie Miller, M.D., clinical faculty
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Dr. Laurie Miller graduated from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. She completed her residency training at the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program in 2004. After working at Community Health Center Inc. in Connecticut for five years, she returned to Fort Collins to join the Salud Family Health Center in May 2009. Her interests include care of the underserved, universal healthcare, diabetes, women's health and obesity. She is fluent in Spanish. She lives in Fort Collins with her husband, Kolby Vaughan, PA-C, and their two children.
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Donna Sullivan, M.D., FAAFP, faculty physician
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Dr. Sullivan graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (six-year B.A.-M.D. program) at the age of 23. After completing training at the Wright State University Family Medicine Residency in 1985, she and her husband, pediatrician Dr. Bill Sullivan, served in the U.S. Air Force at bases in North Dakota and in Florida for five years. Dr. Sullivan completed the Michigan State University Faculty Development Fellowship in 1993, and the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership Fellowship in 2003, and is the 2005-06 president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. Joining the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program in 1990, Dr. Sullivan has been actively involved in development of multiple new and/or changing curricula. Her special interests include curriculum development, leadership skills, and faculty development. In addition, Dr. Sullivan is a certified instructor and course director for ACLS and ALSO.
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Breanna Thompson, D.O., clinical faculty
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Dr. Breanna Thompson, D.O., graduated from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her residency training at the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program. She joined Salud in July 2012. Her medical interests include women's health including obstetrics, international health, sports medicine and osteopathic manipulation. She enjoys learning Spanish, hiking, knitting, cooking, running and biking. She lives with her husband in Fort Collins.
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Pamela S. Webber, M.D., faculty physician
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A Fort Collins native, Dr. Webber graduated from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. She completed her family practice residency with the U.S. Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, and spent the next four years in various locations as an Air Force physician. Dr. Webber also has served as a faculty member at a residency program in Wheeling, W.Va. Her special interests include lifestyle and behavioral medicine. Dr. Webber earned a master's degree in nutrition from Colorado State University, prior to medical school and recently completed a master's degree in marriage and family therapy.
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Rochelle "Chel" Wells, residency program coordinator
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Ms. Wells is the primary contact at the Family Medicine Residency Program. Chel has been with the residency program since 1984 and is a valuable resource. Feel free to contact her with any questions at 970.495.8803 or rrw@pvhs.org.
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