Stephen Hagberg, MD Lindsay Heiple, DO Program Director Osteopathic Program Director

Dr. Hagberg graduated magna cum laude Dr. Heiple graduated from Canisius College from Grove City College in 1999 after earning in 2009 with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in B.S. degrees in Molecular Biology and music. She attended Lake Erie College of Psychology. In 2003, he earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and earned her Medicine degree from Temple University medical degree in 2013. She is a graduate of School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA while the Heritage Valley Family Medicine on scholarship through the Air Force Health Residency Program in 2016, where she served Professions Scholarship Program. During as the chief resident in her last year. She also medical school, he was elected a member of completed a Targeted Area of Concentration the AOA honorary. He then completed his in Faculty Development. Family Medicine Residency at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. She joined the residency program as a faculty member upon graduation. Dr. Heiple’s area of Following graduation, he was stationed at Misawa Air Base in Japan where he interest includes the integration of Osteopathic medicine and principles into spent the next three years. During this assignment, he also completed one daily practice and she looks forward to maintaining this as a focus of what she tour of duty in Iraq as O cer in Charge of the Detainee Health Operations at teaches residents and students. Dr. Heiple is married to a fellow graduate of Camp Bucca. Following his separation from the Air Force, he joined the the family medicine residency program. She enjoys spending time baking, Heritage Valley Medicine Residency Program faculty where he taught until along with being outdoors biking and hiking. She is looking forward to transitioning into his current role as Program Director. He is also a graduate of expanding her family by adopting a dog or two in the near future. the Faculty Development Fellowship at Michigan State University and his special interests in medicine include procedures and sports medicine. Dr. Hagberg is happily married with 9 children. He enjoys spending time at Paul F. Bell, PhD home with his family as well as snowboarding, golng, and building things in Director of Behavioral Science Training the backyard with his boys. Dr. Bell is a licensed psychologist and full time faculty member of the residency program. As Vikram Arora, MD, MPH director of the behavioral science curriculum, he trains resident physicians in behavioral Family Medicine Faculty medicine, disease prevention, communication Dr. Arora is originally from India and was born and counseling skills, and recognition and and brought up in its capital city of New treatment of psychological/psychiatric Delhi. He nished his medical schooling from conditions. Recent research and clinical Maulana Azad Medical College, where his interests have focused on identifying eective achievements ranged from asthma research, models for integrating behavioral health and to captaining the college basketball team. primary care medicine. Following graduation, he joined Temple University Family Medicine Program at Allentown, PA. During his residency he was nominated Chief Resident and was recipient of the Paul L. Hermany Excellence in Teaching award. After completing his residency, he joined group practice for two years, in addition to running an urgent care center and being a part-time employee health physician at the hospital.

His clinical interests include physician patient communication, evidenced based medicine, patient education and e cient utilization of information technology resources for advancement of patient care. Dr. Arora received his MPH degree from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. In June of 2006, he had taken the bold step of pursuing teaching as career in family medicine by joining a two year faculty development fellowship program at UPMC St. Margaret. He nished his fellowship in 2008 with scholarly projects in “Internet as a Patient Education and Communication Tool” and “Impact of Patient Literacy on Diabetic Patient Education.” Robert E. Deacon, MD Kevin C. Dumpe, MD Director of Pediatric Training Director of OB/GYN Training

Dr. Deacon graduated from Brown University Dr. Dumpe graduated with a B.A. in in 1992 with a B.S. in Biology. After nishing psychology from Allegheny College in 1978 medical school at the Medical College of and earned his medical degree at Pennsylvania, he was accepted into the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. pediatric residency program at Children’s He completed his specialty training in Hospital of Pittsburgh. OB/GYN at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh in 1986, where he served as He served an additional year as chief resident chief resident. before joining Tri-State Pediatrics in 2000. His group is one of the largest in Pennsylvania Dr. Dumpe then served as an o cer in the serving more than 40,000 patients. U.S. Air Force until 1990. While stationed at Gri ss Air Force Base in upstate New York, he Dr. Deacon enjoys time away from work with served as chairman of the OB/GYN his two children and the surest way to distract him is to ask him how Ben and department and Chief of Surgical Services. He was also certied as a ight Katie are doing. surgeon during his military service.

He joined the Heritage Valley Family Medicine Residency Program faculty in 1990 as Director of OB/GYN Training. Dr. Dumpe is a member of the Christian Piper Kilpatrick, MD Medical and Dental Associations and the American Association of Pro-Life Family Medicine Faculty Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He and his physician wife have four children. Any extra time is spent pretending he can still be a low handicap golfer. Dr. Kilpatrick is a primary care sports medicine specialist who enjoys treating patients with any sport related medical issue. He focuses primarily on musculoskeletal injuries, but James H. Lauer, MD treats a wide array of conditions from OB/GYN Faculty pulmonary to cardiology to dermatology and everything in between. Dr. Lauer earned his B.A. degree in biology at Franklin and Marshall College and his medical His goal is to return his patients to the highest degree from Georgetown University. He level of athletics be it sport, dance, or job in completed his residency in the shortest amount of time. He also attempts obstetrics/gynecology at Georgetown to provide education on injury prevention in University Hospital where he served as Chief order to help his patients avoid his o ce if at Resident. all possible. He performed his medical training at UPMC St. Margaret in Family Medicine and completed an accredited "sports medicine" fellowship at UPMC Dr. Lauer served four years as an OB/GYN Shadyside, working as a team physician with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Physician in the U.S. Air Force at Gri ss Air Force Pittsburgh Passion, Robert Morris University, and Mt. Lebanon High School. He Base in Rome, New York. He served as chief of applies this training to help his patients recover as quickly as possible. the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and of Anesthesia Services. He joined the Heritage Dr. Kilpatrick is a member of the faculty at the Heritage Valley Family Medicine Valley Family Medicine Residency Program faculty in 1992. He also works in Residency Program and is active in community health education. He is the private practice with The Primary Health Network. Dr. Lauer is married as has head team physicians for Geneva College Athletics and serves as Medical three children. His interests include computers, reading novels, and family Director of Heritage Valley SportsCare. time. He is also active in medical mission activities with his church and has been to Haiti ve times.

www.heritagevalley.org/fmr Soo Jung Lee, MD Jonathan McKrell, MD Family Medicine Faculty Family Medicine Faculty

Dr. Lee graduated from the University of Dr. McKrell completed his undergraduate California, San Diego in 1996 with a B.S. in education at the University of Pennsylvania Animal Physiology and Neuroscience and with a B.A. in Biology in 1981. He attended a B.A. in Psychology. She earned her medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, Doctor of Medicine degree from Wright State graduating in 1985 and completed his Family University School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. Practice Residency at Aultman Hospital in She went on to complete her residency at Canton, OH in 1988, serving as Co-Chief Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program Resident during his third year. in Concord, NC. After completing residency, she joined the faculty at Cabarrus Family Dr. McKrell has spent over two decades in Medicine, seeing patients as well as educating Family Medicine Residency education at future family physicians. During this time, she several dierent programs. During that time, became further interested in the care of the he spent 11 years as the Director of a Primary elderly. After moving to Pittsburgh, she completed a fellowship in Geriatric Care Sports Medicine fellowship. Dr. McKrell is board certied in both Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret. Medicine and Sports Medicine. Dr. Lee enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for family medicine with medical students and residents. Dr. McKrell is excited about this next chapter in his career at the Heritage Valley Family Medicine Residency Program. He is eager to pursue clinical and teaching opportunities in sports medicine and musculoskeletal care with the residents. He considers it a privilege to help residents to grown into condent, Autumn Stewart, PharmD, well-rounded, independent family physicians. BCACP, CTTS Dr. McKrell is married, has three grown children, and became a grandfather in Family Medicine Faculty 2014. In addition to his love of sports of almost any kind, he enjoys gardening and home projects. Dr. Stewart is a 2004 graduate of the Duquesne University, Mylan School of Pharmacy. She completed a Community Practice Pharmacy Residency and has since David G. Thimons, DO worked in a variety of settings as a clinical Family Medicine Faculty pharmacist including end-of-life care and a free health care center for the medically Dr. David Thimons, DO is currently the underserved. In 2008 she became a full-time Director of Geriatrics and the Osteopathic clinical faculty member in the Duquesne Director of Medical Education for the Family University, Mylan School of Pharmacy and in Medicine Residency Program at Heritage this role has developed clinical pharmacy Valley Beaver. He also serves as co-medical services at the Heritage Valley Family Medicine Center. Dr. Stewart enjoys director of the RAVEN Project (a CMS mentoring students and developing pharmacy practice models focused on Innovations grant awarded to care for nursing interprofessional learning and patient-centered collaborative care. home patients throughout Western Pennsylvania). Dr. Thimons was a graduate of Her research interests include expanding the role of the pharmacist in primary the residency program in 2000 and joined as care settings through medication reconciliation services and innovative a faculty member in April of 2010. pedagogy. She is a Board Certied Ambulatory Care Pharmacist and a Certied Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Along with his other positions, Dr. Thimons serves as medical director of Villa St. Joseph Nursing Home, medical director of Beaver Valley Nursing and Rehab Center, associate medical director of Good Samaritan Hospice, and is a clinical assistant professor of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where he graduated from medical school.

www.heritagevalley.org/fmr Jessica Duca, MSS, LSW Social Work Case Manager

Jessica Duca, MSS, LSW, graduated from Geneva College in 1999 with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Psychology. After graduation, Jessica spent a summer building houses with Habitat for Humanity as an Americorps member in Dallas, TX.

Wanting to pursue social work as her life’s passion, Jessica went on to complete her Master’s of Social Service at Bryn Mawr College’s School of Social Work and Social Research in 2006. While in Philadelphia, PA and Arlington, VA, Jessica also worked in the elds of foster care, child care assistance and advocacy, and behavioral health.

Jessica began medical social work at UPMC Shadyside in 2010 on the stem cell transplant and oncology units. Jessica joined Heritage Valley Beaver as a social work case manager in 2011 and has really enjoyed working in acute care. Jessica is very excited for the opportunity to work with and serve the Beaver Falls and Beaver County community as an outpatient social worker. She is very interested learning how to improve patient outcomes by increasing awareness about community programs and services that could support general, nancial, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing.

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