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Green Bay – The MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program is pleased to welcome six new physicians to its program at the Prevea Shawano Avenue Health Center at 1727 Shawano Ave., in Green Bay: Alexander Burns, MD; Andrew Hanna, MD; Erica Kleist, MD; Michelle Stauff, MD; Lillian Whalen, MD; and Austin Wills, MD.
The MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program is for physicians who have completed medical school and are interested in the field of family medicine. Each year, the program accepts up to six newly graduated physicians for three years of training. They provide direct medical care to patients under the supervision of experienced faculty physicians and community preceptors.
The MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program operates out of the Prevea Shawano Avenue Health Center to provide a variety of primary health care services for adults, children and the elderly. Appointments with a family medicine resident physician at the Prevea Shawano Avenue Health Center can be made now by calling (920) 431-1810.Same-day and next-day appointments are available.
Established in 2020, the MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program is the first of its kind in the Greater Green Bay region. The program welcomed its very first group of physician residents in 2021, who are now on their third year of training and continue to see patients at the Prevea Shawano Avenue Health Center: Kalpana Bair, MD; Snigdha Kalidindi, MD; Nana Merabova, MD; and Sarah Zeeshan, MD. In 2022, Prevea and MCW welcomed its second group of physician residents, including Brooke Bloomfield, DO; Alejandro Cabello, DO; Merna Ghobrial, MD; and Patrick Buranicz, DO.
Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program operates as a partnership between Prevea Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Wisconsin Northern and Central GME Consortium (WiNC) and HSHS St. Vincent Hospital.
Resident physicians of the MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program also train at additional Prevea health centers across Northeast Wisconsin and at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital in Green Bay.
In addition to providing new physicians with advanced training in the field of family medicine, the residency program also serves to address physician and primary care shortages in the region, particularly in rural areas.
Patients interested in learning more about the MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program, please visit: https://www.prevea.com/careers/for-students/family-medicine-residency-programs.
Medical professionals interested in learning more about applying to the MCW-Prevea Family Medicine Residency Program, please visit: https://www.prevea.com/careers/for-students/mcw-prevea-family-medicine-residency-program/apply.
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Media Contacts:
Angela Deja
Public Relations Director
Prevea Health & HSHS Wisconsin
(715) 271-7707
angela.deja@prevea.com
Holly Botsford
External Communications Director
MCW
(414) 688-7960
hbotsford@mcw.edu
About Prevea Health
Founded in Green Bay, Wis. in 1996, Prevea Health is a health care organization that provides high-quality, primary and specialty health care in 80+ locations across Northern, Eastern and Western Wisconsin in clinic and hospital settings. It is partnered with six Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) hospitals across Wisconsin to provide patients a system of highly coordinated care, close to home: HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay; HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan; HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital in Oconto Falls; HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire; and HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls. For more information, visit: www.prevea.com
About the Medical College of Wisconsin
With a history dating back to 1893, The Medical College of Wisconsin is dedicated to leadership and excellence in education, patient care, research and community engagement. More than 1,500 students are enrolled in MCW’s medical school and graduate school programs in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Central Wisconsin. MCW’s School of Pharmacy graduated its inaugural PharmD class in 2020. A major national research center, MCW is the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and second largest in Wisconsin. In the last 10 years, faculty received more than $1.5 billion in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Annually, MCW faculty direct or collaborate on more than 3,100 research studies, including clinical trials. Additionally, more than 1,650 physicians provide care in virtually every specialty of medicine for more than 2.8 million patients annually.