The COMmunicator 2019-20 Vol. 2 | Page 39

Starting July 1, 2020, Alyssa Mixon, DO ‘16 PGY4 will be the first Cancer Rehabilitation Fellow in Philadelphia, spearheading the program at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mixon says she is “so excited to start (just have to graduate from residency first) and wanted to say thank you to UNE COM and all the amazing professors, attendings, teaching assistants, residents, nurses, therapists, and ancillary staff for helping me along my medical journey as a student.”

Students interested in Cancer Rehabilitation or COM Clubs or Orgs interested in bringing her to campus to speak may reach out to her. “It is a small but growing field and we need more representation,” she says. Learn more.

COM ALUMNA MAKING AN IMPACT IN CANCER REHABILITATION

COM alumnus, Nicholas Gallagher, DO ’15, had an article published entitled, “Treating Opioid Withdrawal With Buprenorphine in a Community Hospital Emergency Department: An Outreach Program,” in the peer-reviewed journal, Annals of Emergency Medicine. The objective of the study was to “assess the feasibility of using our community hospital emergency department (ED) as an immediate portal to medication-assisted treatment for patients in opioid withdrawal.”

Dr. Gallagher is an Emergency Medicine resident at Kent Hospital and is an Addiction Medicine Fellow at Brown University in Rhode Island. Read the article.

COM ALUMNA JOINS MAINE MEDICAL PARTNERS

ALUMNUS HAS RESEARCH PUBLISHED ON TREATING OPIOID WITHDRAWAL

A huge congratulations to Amanda Albanese Roberts, DO ’15, who is one of several doctors who have recently joined the staff at Maine Medical Partners!

Read the article.