Cleveland Clinic Akron General's Center for Family Medicine (Ccag Cfm).

About United states

Most United states of america

Hear from 2021 graduate Dr. Andrew Zheng on why he chose Cleveland Clinic Akron General's Family Medicine Residency Plan.

We are a 7-seven-vii 3-twelvemonth family medicine plan established in 1971 and fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Nosotros offer a faculty with a diversity of interests, an innovative behavior science curriculum, and team-based care focused on population wellness, procedures, and chronic illness management. We also offer an innovative practice direction curriculum and a dedicated inpatient and outpatient pharmacotherapy specialists.

As a major affiliate of Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), our residency provides first-yr experiences on inpatient rotations of medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, surgery, and emergency medicine, forth with starting time-year inpatient pediatric experience at Akron Children's Infirmary. Each beginning twelvemonth resident receives their own panel of patients at the Center for Family Medicine that grows with them over the elapsing of their residency.

The second year includes rotations in certain base rotations, every bit well equally allowing individualization through the medical and surgical selective pathway. The resident will continue to grow their outpatient continuity panel of patients. Nosotros also include a "hands-on" iv-week practice direction curriculum during the second twelvemonth.

The third year provides substantial individualization, likewise as more than advanced feel in part and patient direction, and includes expanding further management of a patient panel up to 150-200 families.

Our residency program, along with our fellow Cleveland Clinic residency program, Lakewood, are in the 4th year of a partnership with Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM), Cleveland campus in the innovative Transformational Care Continuum (TCC) curriculum. This easily-on truncated six-year program focuses on the learned principles of population health direction and their implementation on a panel of patients starting from the first year of medical school through residency to the practice of medicine.

Office-based procedures, including POCUS, are taught throughout the iii years both in workshops and past hands-on precepting in one of our multi-purpose procedural rooms.

Dedicated didactic conferences are scheduled half a day weekly encompassing all medical topics incorporating osteopathic principles and do, behavioral science, pharmacology, testify-based medicine, inquiry, and practise management for all residents.

Bank check out the latest on Cleveland Clinic Akron Full general's Facebook page.

Welcome

Welcome

A Letter from the Manager of the Family Medicine Residency Program

Thank you for your involvement in the Family unit Medicine Residency Program at Cleveland Dispensary Akron General. Nosotros are committed to providing the highest quality of wellness care to our community and the finest education to our residents.

Our kinesthesia is an eclectic mix of energetic, talented, and extremely dedicated individuals that come from various backgrounds. Each with special talents and interests that provide our residents a collegial educational atmosphere. At the Centre for Family Medicine, y'all will notice twenty examination rooms spread across four modules, a procedural care area, Osteopathic Manipulation expanse and pedagogy space. You lot volition become adept with a variety of role procedures, including:

• Video colposcopy and biopsies
• Joint injections
• Bespeak of care ultrasound
• Pare lesion excision and biopsies
• Cryotherapy
• IUD insertion and removal
• Nexplanon® insertion and removal
• Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine

During your residency, y'all will piece of work side by side with some of the finest nursing and office staff. Our practice direction, pharmacology, and behavioral science curricula are taught past experts in their fields who work closely with our residents, assisting them with the tools necessary to do in the ever-irresolute realm of medical practice.

Our mission is to provide our graduates with the necessary training to allow them to provide first-class, compassionate and comprehensive intendance to their patients when they enter practise. Our graduates are comfy in a range of roles from private practice to hospitalists as competent and effective family physicians.

Nosotros welcome y'all to await through the information provided here and to call for farther information. The faculty, staff, and residents invite yous to train at ane of the best residency programs available - the Akron General Medical Heart Family Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic Akron General.

Douglas Harley, Practice
Family Medicine Residency, Program Managing director

Clinical Rotations

Clinical Rotations

PGY – ane

• 2 blocks: Inpatient Family unit Medicine
• 1 block: CVICU
• 1 block: Orthopedics
• 1 block: Surgery
• 1 block: Newborn/Gynecology
• 1 block: Essentials of Family Medicine I
• ane cake: Emergency Medicine (Developed)
• one block: Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics)
• 1 block: Obstetrics
• ii blocks: Inpatient Pediatrics
• ane block: Medical Selective

1-3 half mean solar day(s) patient care per week; one-half day didactics per week

PGY – 2

• 2 blocks: Elective
• 1 block: Medical Intensive Care Unit
• 1 block: Medical Selective
• 1 block: Emergency Medicine (Adult)
• 1 block: Essentials of Family Medicine II
• 1 block: Outpatient Pediatrics (Montrose)
• 1 cake: Pharmacotherapy
• 1 cake: Practice Direction
• 3 blocks: Inpatient Family Medicine
• ane cake: Outpatient Pediatrics
• 1 block: Surgical Selective

one-4 half day(s) patient intendance per week; one-half day instruction per week

PGY – 3

• one block: Dermatology/Surgical Selective
• one block: Surgical Selective
• one block: Medical Selective
• 1 block: Elderliness
• 1 block: Sports Medicine
• 1 block: Newborn/Gynecology
• 3 blocks: Inpatient Family Medicine
• two blocks: Electives

1-5 half solar day(due south) patient care per week; half mean solar day didactics per calendar week

Medical Selective

• Habit
• Allergy/Immunology
• Cardiology
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Hematology/Oncology
• Hospice/Palliative Care
• Communicable diseases
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Pain Management
• PM&R
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Radiology
• Rheumatology
• Sleep Medicine/Hyperbaric
• Weight Direction

Surgical Selective

• Anesthesiology
• ENT
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Plastic Surgery
• Podiatry
• SICU
• Urology
• Vascular Surgery
• Wound Care

Electives (can include)

• Family unit Medicine Clinic
• Hospitalist
• Integrative/Functional
• International
• Leadership
• New Parent
• OMT
• CFM Procedure Clinic
• Research

Teaching Faculty

Teaching Faculty

• Megan M. Adelman, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, CDE
• Kevin Baldie, Doctor
• Elliot B. Davidson, MD, FAAFP, Medical Manager Center for Family Medicine
• Douglas W. Harley, DO, FACOFP, FAAFP, Program Director
• Theresa A Lash-Ritter, MD, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Chief Medical Officer
• Aaron M. Lear, Doc, CAQ
• Renee L. Markovich, Doc, FAAFP
• Nkosi Stonemason, Md
• Chanda Mullen, BS, PhD
• Andrea Reddest, LISW-South, Director of Behavioral Scientific discipline
• Deborah South. Plate, DO, FAAFP, Family unit Medicine Department Chair
• Katherine C. Sheridan, MD, FAAFP, Acquaintance Program Director
• Leon Zhong, MD

Application

Application

We appreciate your interest in Cleveland Clinic Akron General and hope that nosotros've provided you with the data you need to choose the right fellowship program. Akron General is able to offer an exceptional medical education experience because of our knowledgeable and hard-working staff. Akron General is now ranked as the No. 1 hospital in the Akron Metropolitan Area, co-ordinate to U.S. News & World Report. Akron General is as well listed as the No. seven hospital in Ohio for 2021-22, according to the almanac ranking of All-time Hospitals past U.South. News. We maintain a standard of excellence that promises zilch but the best care for our patients and therefore, nothing but the best educational activity for our medical students, residents and fellows.

Life in Akron has then much to offer! Learn more virtually Greater Akron.

• Residency applications and the boosted items below must be submitted through the Electronic Residency Awarding Service (ERAS).
• Application Deadlines: Oct xxx, 2021 - January 31, 2022
• Expected Program Length: Three years

Application consists of:

• Medical School Bookish Transcript
• Medical Student Operation Evaluation (Dean's Alphabetic character)
• Passing USMLE Pace I & Pace ii (Beginning Try)
• Valid ECFMG document (if applicable)
• Curriculum vitae
• 3 letters of recommendation
• Personal statement

All information must exist submitted earlier an application can be reviewed.

Interviews are by invitation. If you lot have been selected, nosotros will contact y'all using the information you have provided.

Selection engagement is prepare by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).

Important Information for International Medical Graduates Applicants:

• Applicant must be ECFMG certified before NRMP Rank Order List deadline.
• H1-B and J-i visa's are offered.
• Nosotros adopt applicants who accept graduated within the last two years.

Interested in rotating?

Akron Full general Medical Middle uses VSAS, the Visiting Pupil Awarding Service to procedure visiting pupil applications.

To apply for an family medicine rotation, please consummate and send a VSAS application with your preferred dates.

Department of Medical Instruction
Cleveland Dispensary Akron Full general
ane Akron Full general Ave.
Akron, OH 44307

Electric current Residents

Current Residents

PGY – 1

Michael Arnold, Exercise

• Hometown: Canton, OH
• Undergraduate: Brown University
• Medical School: Ohio Academy Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine-Cleveland
• Medical Interests: Preventative medicine, LGBTQ+ health, Palliative intendance
• Interests/Hobbies: Going to the movie theater, reading, cartoon, painting, writing

Peris Kibera, Do

• Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya and Westlake, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Cleveland Land University
• Medical School: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine - Cleveland
• Medical Interests: Chronic disease management, population health and health disparities, research, mental health, global wellness
• Interests/Hobbies: Spending time with my son, walking, cooking, traveling

AuBree LaForce, Doctor

• Hometown: Vermilion, Ohio
• Undergraduate: University of Mount Matrimony
• Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)
• Medical Interests: Serving the underserved, sports medicine, full-scope small town/rural medicine, end of life care
• Interests/Hobbies: Sports of any kind – watching, playing and coaching - and spending time with my large and shut-knit family, traveling, beingness outside and exploring nature and thanking God every day for my incredible blessings

Nana Ama Ofei-Tenkorang, Practice

• Hometown: Pawtucket, Rhode Isle
• Undergraduate: Academy of Rhode Island
• Medical Schoolhouse: Ohio University Heritage College of Medicine
• Medical Involvement: Community & Global Wellness, Pain Medicine, Clinical Research
• Interests/Hobbies: Playing lawn tennis, spending fourth dimension with family and friends, traveling and dancing

Mason Page, MD

• Hometown: Gnadenhutten, OH
• Undergraduate: University of Akron
• Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical Academy
• Medical Interests: palliative & hospice care, addiction medicine, rural medicine, women & children's health, prevention & pedagogy
• Interests/Hobbies: Listening to music, cooking, participating in my community, learning and teaching

Sharon Ware, DO

• Hometown: Massillon, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Kent Country University; Graduate: Rutgers University
• Medical School: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Medical Interests: Preventive care in housing insecure and forensic populations, medically underserved populations, pediatrics, wellness advocacy, and medical education
• Interests/Hobbies: Spending time with my married man, vii-year-old daughter and 8-month-old son. Also, farthermost couponing, playing hockey, traveling, studying aeronautics and aviation, learning about astronomy and gathering regularly with my faith community

Matthew Wilcox, DO

• Hometown: Ada, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Ashland Academy
• Medical Schoolhouse: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Medical Interests: Total Telescopic Family Medicine, Quality Improvement, Teaching
• Interests/Hobbies: Making the perfect cup of cascade-over coffee, hiking in area country and national parks, traveling to stay in interesting Airbnb's, participating in triathlons, riding motorcycles, cooking and spending time with my married woman and family

---

PGY – 2

Olufunke Thousand. Adebayo, MD

• Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut
• Undergraduate: Cardinal Connecticut State Academy
• Medical School: American Academy of Antigua College of Medicine
• Medical Involvement: Women's health, medical missions
• Interests/Hobbies: Travel, music, fashion, cooking, movies, medical missions, spending time with family, women's wellness

Philip Cacchione, DO

• Hometown: Erie Pennsylvania
• Undergraduate: Gannon University
• Medical Schoolhouse: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Medical Interest: Preventative medicine, OMM, sports medicine
• Interests/Hobbies: Golf, angling, cooking, cooking

Yvonne Chueh, DO

• Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Case Western Reserve University
• Medical Schoolhouse: Ohio Academy Heritage College of Medicine, Cleveland
• Medical Interests: Procedures
• Interests/Hobbies: Music, hiking, cooking

Jamesha Ford, Practice

• Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
• Undergraduate: The Ohio Land University
• Medical Schoolhouse: Ohio University Heritage College of Medicine
• Medical Involvement: Women'due south health, integrative medicine
• Interests/Hobbies: Traveling, spending time with family unit, managing pocket-sized business projection

Sarah Rose Keating, MD

• Hometown: Elyria, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Lorain County Community Higher, Cleveland Land University
• Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University
• Medical Interests: Pediatrics, boyish medicine, psychosocial medicine
• Interests/Hobbies: Nature (hiking, animals, gardening), reading, and baking.

Laura Lininger, Doctor

• Hometown: Garrettsville, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Youngstown State University
• Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University
• Medical Interests: Rural medicine practicing full spectrum principal care including, but not limited to: outpatient, inpatient, pediatrics, procedures, and education.
• Interests/Hobbies: Horseback riding, hiking, biking, and spending fourth dimension with my family and friends

Naseeb G. Shaheen, Md

• Hometown: Canton, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Ohio State University
• Medical Schoolhouse: Marshall Academy
• Medical Interests: Sports medicine, global health
• Interests/Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, working on cars, traveling, lifting

---

PGY – 3

Alenadreale Banton, Medico

• Hometown: Bronx, New York
• Undergraduate: City College of New York
• Medical Schoolhouse: Northeast Ohio Medical University
• Medical Interests: Health disinterestedness, procedures, urban primary care
• Interests/Hobbies: Fitness, music, food

Katie Clark, DO

• Hometown: Lakewood, Ohio
• Undergraduate: University of Kentucky
• Medical School: Ohio University Heritage Higher of Medicine, Cleveland
• Medical Interests: Women's wellness, pediatrics
• Interests/Hobbies: Running, yoga, reading, traveling

Guryadav Dhillon, MD

• Hometown: Amritsar, Republic of india
• Undergraduate: Khalsa College, Amritsar
• Medical schoolhouse: Sri Guru Ram Das Found of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar
• Medical Interests: Primary care outpatient medicine
• Interests/Hobbies: Traveling, hiking, spending time with friends and family.

Kristin Forkapa, DO

• Hometown: Brunswick, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Academy of Akron
• Medical Schoolhouse: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Medical Interests: Sports medicine, OMT, pediatrics, women's health
• Interests/Hobbies: Kayaking, camping/hiking, exercising, yoga, reading, baking

Afshin Humayun, Medico

• Hometown: Flint, Michigan
• Undergraduate: Academy of N Carolina, Chapel Colina
• Medical Schoolhouse: Michigan State University Higher of Human Medicine
• Medical Interests: Racial disparities in healthcare, women'southward wellness, wound care, hospital medicine
• Interests/Hobbies: Ultimate Frisbee, table lawn tennis, lath games, basketball

Brian Krusemark, MD

• Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Undergraduate:  Miami University
• Medical Schoolhouse:  Wright Land Academy
• Medical Interests: Primary prevention of preventable diseases, particularly rural and underserved communities
• Interests/Hobbies: Camping, hiking, doing pretty much annihilation while hanging out with my kids

Allen Liew, Medico

• Hometown: Wooster, Ohio
• Undergraduate: Youngstown Land University
• Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical Academy
• Medical Interests: Outpatient/inpatient medicine, mental wellness, educational activity
• Interests/Hobbies: Music, cooking, computers

Alumni

Alumni

2021 Graduates

• Ranjeet Arora, Doctor — Family unit Healthcare Network, Visalia, California
• Magalie Bernardo, MD — University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
• Eleni Dimitriadis, Dr. — Urgent Care, Cleveland Clinic Mercy Infirmary, Ohio
• Scott Gestrich, Doctor — Community Health Eye, Manet Health, Boston, Massachusetts
• Suvetha Senthivasan, Exercise — TBD, Toronto, Canada
• Fangfei Xiao, DO — Geriatrics Fellowship, Metro Health, Cleveland, Ohio
• Andrew Zheng, MD — OhioHealth Doc Group, Dublin, Ohio

2020 Graduates

• Heli Naik, DO — Sports Medicine Fellowship, Pennsylvania
• Sisay Abraham, Doc — Outpatient, Barnes Jewish Hospital Alton, Illinois
• Kishan Patel, DO — Faculty, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, Ohio
• Hyo Young Smith, MD — Outpatient, Cleveland Dispensary Matrimony Hospital, Spousal relationship, Ohio
• Shuchi Talwar, DO — Outpatient, Indiana University Health, Indiana

2019 Graduates

• Lesley Booher, Dr. — Outpatient, Fairlawn Family Practice, Fairlawn, Ohio
• Alicia Bond, Medico — Outpatient, NEOMED student clinic, Rootstown, Ohio
• Kristen (Beesley) Frimpong-Boateng, MD — Outpatient, Kaiser Permanente, Antioch, California
• Vincent Leone, Physician — Outpatient, Fairlawn Family unit Exercise, Fairlawn, Ohio
• John Prokop, DO — Outpatient, Wooster Community Infirmary, Wooster, Ohio

2018 Graduates

• Aditya Bhatia, Physician — Hospitalist, Mount Carmel, Columbus, Ohio
• Laura Cottingham, Physician
• Niraj Patel, DO — Staff Doctor, GoodRx, San Francisco, California
• Tricia Olaes, MD — Outpatient, OhioHealth, Gahanna, Ohio
• Morgan Savel, MD — Outpatient, Cleveland Clinic, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

2017 Graduates

• Shahzad Aslam, MD — Outpatient, Mount Carmel St Anns, Westerville, Ohio
• Nkosi Mason, Medico — Faculty, Cleveland Clinic Akron Full general, Akron, Ohio
• Sivakaran Nagaratnam, Dr. — Outpatient, North Oakville Medical Centre, Oakville, Ontario
• Doria Narively, MD — Outpatient, Kaiser Permanente, Everett, Washington
• Puja Natesan, Md — Outpatient, CareNow, Rockwall, Texas

Research & Innovations

Research & Innovations

The Cleveland Clinic Akron General Center for Family Medicine is committed to helping patients of all ages and their families achieve good wellness and improve the quality their lives. Through research and education, we remain on the cut border of family unit medicine. That means we are always exploring new and meliorate ways to ameliorate lifestyles and ameliorate manage chronic illnesses through medical treatments and patient pedagogy.

For more information nigh resident inquiry in Family Medicine, please contact:

Doug Harley, DO
Program Director
330.344.6047

Aaron Lear, MD
Resident Research Director
330.344.2663

Chanda Mullen, PhD
Research Faculty
330.344.6236
[email protected]

• View selected Family Medicine Publications

holmeshateculd.blogspot.com

Source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/locations/akron-general/medical-professionals/medical-education/graduate/family-medicine