Faculty

Graduate Medical Education - Arizona

Faculty

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Program Director Jeffery Wolfrey, MD	Medical Director Gregory J. Raglow, MD
Assistant Medical Directors: Steven R. Brown, MD, Charlotte Gurule, MD, James A. MacKenzie, Ph.D., M.S.W., Sandra Miller, MD, Cheryl Pagel, MD, Edward Perrin, MD, Mark Stephan, MD
Obstetrics Coordinator Nona Siegel, M.S.N., FNP-C	Junior Faculty Susanne Burkett, MD

Program Director

Jeffrey Wolfrey, MD, program director, received his medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed his family medicine residency at Banner Good Samaritan. During his training, he was privileged to work with Drs. Lewis Barnett and Robert Price, two of the pioneers in the family medicine movement. He practiced five years in central Virginia and taught at the UVA family medicine residency before returning to Phoenix in 1991 as a full time faculty member at Good Sam.

Dr. Wolfrey is a clinical professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians. He actively promotes practice innovations such as open access scheduling and group visits. His scholarly interests include generational issues in education. Dr. Wolfrey's wife Debra coordinates educational ministries for churches throughout Arizona. His daughter Andrea is a medical student at the University of Arizona. He is a jazz drummer and enjoys most sports, especially golf, baseball, and basketball. He loves to spend time outdoors enjoying the beauty of the Southwest and its 300 plus days of sunshine.

Medical Director

Gregory J. Raglow, MD, medical director, is a clinical associate professor of Family Medicine at the University of Arizona. After completing his residency at the University of Arizona, Greg spent five years as clinician and director of student and resident clerkships at the Whiteriver Indian Health Service Hospital.

He has served as a faculty member of Pakistan's first family practice residency at the Aga Khan University in Karachi,Pakistan in 1994-95. Greg's professional interests include the use of information technology in teaching medical care, travel medicine, teaching family practice in international settings, and family-centered maternity care. He is an advisory faculty for Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO). His hobbies include camping, mountain biking and hiking with his wife and three children, and keeping in touch with his friends from Whiteriver.

Assistant Medical Directors

Steven R. Brown, MD graduated from Albany Medical College and then completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital. Before joining the faculty at Good Samaritan, Dr. Brown worked as a full-spectrum family physician for four years at the rural Whiteriver Indian Health Service in the mountains of Northern Arizona. He was awarded the American Academy of Family Physician Foundation's "Teacher Development Award" in 2003 for his work as director of the student and resident program in Whiteriver and the 2006 STFM "New Faculty Scholar Award."

Dr. Brown's interests include evidence-based decision-making, caring for the rural and urban underserved, obstetrics, and quality issues in healthcare. Married with a son and daughter, Dr. Brown enjoys spending time with his family, travel, and running.

Charlotte Gurule, MD, Assistant director, received a B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry at Adams State University in southern Colorado, then the M.D. at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She then completed residency at Banner Good Samaritan followed by a faculty development fellowship at the University of Arizona. Her professional interests include obstetrics, women's health and caring for underserved populations. She keeps herself very busy with a husband, daughter, 2 cats and 2 dogs. When she has time she enjoys cooking new recipes, training and participating for half marathons and watching movies.

James A. MacKenzie, Ph.D., M.S.W., assistant director, is a psychologist with a social work background and two additional years of training in family therapy. During the 25 years that Jim has taught in Family Medicine, his teaching interests have included relationship-centered medical interviewing, cross-cultural health care and the application of family systems theory to primary care.

He is a clinical assistant professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona. Dr. MacKenzie is married, has three grown children and six grandchildren. His interests include Southwestern archaeology, home brewing and hiking.

Sandra Miller, MD, assistant director, is board-certified in Family Practice and fellowship-trained in faculty development. She is a clinical assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona. Originally from Illinois, she ran a busy practice for ten years before joining the faculty.

Other special interests include influenza and coccidioidomycosis (authors this chapter in the 5-Minute Clinical Consult), and she is devoted to recruiting the best intern classes in the state. She has presented seminars on resident evaluation and teaching at a national level, at the Society of Teachers of Family medicine, on multiple occasions. Married, with a daughter, she spends the rest of her time riding dressage on her horse, mountain biking, reading, and pretending to write a novel.

Cheryl Pagel, MD, assistant director, is board-certified in Family Medicine. She came to the Family Practice Center after working as a private practitioner in Ronan, Montana, and as medical director of the Grand Canyon Clinic. Cheryl has a continuing interest in rural medicine as well as women's health issues. She directs the medical student activities in our residency and is a clinical assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona. In her life outside of the office, she has fun with her two children and tries to make music on the piano and win a few sets of tennis now and again.

Edward Perrin, M.D.

Edward Perrin, MD, assistant director. After teaching theater, math, and history at private middle and high schools in California, Edward Perrin ultimately received his MD from University of California, San Diego in 2000. He then completed his residency at the Banner Good Samaritan Family Medicine residency program where he stayed on for a fourth year as junior faculty. Following the junior faculty year, he completed a fellowship in Geriatrics in the Internal Medicine department at Good Sam. He then returned to the permanent family medicine faculty in 2005, with special interests in geriatrics, palliative medicine, and women's health. He coordinates the residency's geriatric curriculum, including rounds at a nearby nursing home, while remaining an active member of the obstetrics faculty; both geriatrics and prenatal/perinatal care truly epitomize family medicine, with the emphasis on family. (How many board-certified geriatricians are out there delivering babies?)

Other interests of Dr. Perrin's include politics and political advocacy, organized medicine (having been involved in the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians since his first year in AZ), theater/symphony/opera, current events, camping, hiking, and doing all of the above accompanied by his wife, Allison, her daughter, Madeline, and their dogs Beauregard (great Dane) and Sanger (border collie-husky).

Mark Stephan, MD, assistant director. Mark graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine before coming to train at Banner Good Samaritan Family Practice Residency. After graduation, he remained for a fourth year as chief resident while completing the faculty development fellowship at the University of Arizona. He worked for three years at a community health center in Washington State before returning the faculty in 2001. He is married to Nichelle (an obstetrician) and they have two sons. His professional interests include obstetrics and child development. He competes in triathlons and enjoys literature and camping.

Obstetrics Coordinator

Nona Siegel, M.S.N., FNP-C, the obstetrics coordinator for our program, is a certified family nurse practitioner with a background in public health nursing and women's health. Nona acts as a resource for residents and oversees prenatal care in the office. Her special interests include teen pregnancy, contraception, patient education and creating a nurturing work environment. For fun, she plays with her family, reads fiction and ponders the meaning of life in the universe.

Junior Faculty

Susanne Burkett, MD, our junior faculty, graduated from the University of Arizona School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Banner Good Samaritan in family medicine. Currently she is participating in the faculty development fellowship through the University of Arizona while assisting as the junior faculty with the residency program. Her professional interests include Women's Health as well as Urgent Care. In her free time she enjoys traveling, reading, painting, and being active in various clubs and organizations in the community.