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Dr. Tom James, Billings, MT
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Faculty
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Roxanne Fahrenwald, MD
Program Director
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Dr. Fahrenwald is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She received her medical degree from Loyola University—Stritch School of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Practice in Greeley, CO. Prior to becoming Program Director at MFMR, Dr. Fahrenwald was Program Director of the Family Medicine Program at SUNY in Stony Brook, NY.
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Thomas R. James, MD
Associate Director
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Dr. Tom James is a graduate of Montana State University, received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee and completed his residency in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. James then practiced for five years in rural North Florida until relocating back to Montana.
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Vernon Johnson, MD
Faculty
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Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Salisbury State College. He received his medical degree from University of Florida School of Medicine and completed his residency in Family Practice in Huntington, West Virginia. Dr. Johnson has worked with Indian Health Services in rural areas, including the Crow Agency in Montana. Dr. Johnson enjoys singing classical and soul music, as well as long distance running, fishing and religion.
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James Guyer, MD
Faculty
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James Guyer, MD is a graduate of the University of Montana, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and the University of Utah, Ogden Family Medicine Residency. He joins the faculty after 5 years of active duty in Germany with the United States Air Force. Prior to heading overseas, he spent 3 years as the medical director at Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo reservation in Arizona and in private practice for 3 years in Denver. Dr. Guyer completed a Faculty Development program at the University of Arizona. Jim and his wife are both from eastern Montana--Ekalaka and Miles City.
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Renée Crichlow, MD
Faculty
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Born in Oklahoma, Dr. Crichlow was a graduate of University of California, Davis School of Medicine for her doctorate and FP residency, after which she was a UCSF Faculty Development and Clinical Research Fellow. Prior to joining our faculty she had been an attending physician, researcher, and instructor at University of California, Davis School of Medicine with a joint appointment Dept. of Family and Community Medicine and the Ob/Gyn Breast Health Clinic. She lives in Red lodge because she feels that snowboarding, reading, good food, family, and friends are all priorities, but not necessarily in that order.
“Montana has two kinds of people, those lucky enough to be born here and the rest of us got here as soon as we could,” Renée Crichlow MD
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Sharon Mulvehill, MD
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Mike Geurin, MD
Faculty
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After undergraduate and masters-level training in English—and seven years of
teaching college English in Oklahoma and English as a second language in the
Czech Republic—Dr. Geurin completed his premedical training at Bartlesville
Wesleyan College and his medical training at the University of Oklahoma
College of Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the Montana
Family Medicine Residency and its wilderness medicine track, and is
currently completing a Faculty Development Fellowship with the University of
Washington's Family Medicine Residency Network. In addition to wilderness
medicine, his professional interests include diabetes care, healthcare improvement, and medicine in the arts. He is an avid wilderness
photographer and hiker, and a member of the Billings Symphony Chorale.
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Joseph Keel, MD
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Dr. Keel grew up in rural Illinois and spent four years as a USAF B-52 Gunner. He received his Bachelors of Architectural Technology from Washington University in St. Louis and spent several years working and teaching in the field of architecture. While volunteering with housing and health care in Haiti, he was inspired to pursue a career in medicine.
After the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine and an intern year at Duke University in Durham, he completed his Family Medicine residency in Asheville, North Carolina. He has been working out West ever since including 4 years at Crow / Northern Cheyenne IHS Hospital. He enjoys photographing Montana while cross-country skiing, hiking and camping. |
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Frank Thompson, MD
Faculty
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Dr. Thompson is a graduate of and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. Dr. Thompson was in private practice in Lewiston, MT for over 12 years prior to joining MFMR. He has an active interest in Wilderness medicine and a love of the outdoors.
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Duncan Burford, MD
Faculty
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Dr. Burford is a graduate of Louisiana State University. He received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Psychiatry in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Burford has been in private practice in Billings, MT for several years.
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Carla Cobb, PharmD, BCPP
Faculty
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Dr. Cobb received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Manitoba and her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She also completed a specialty practice residency in psychiatry at the San Antonio State Hospital and is board certified in psychiatric pharmacy. She has considerable experience in pharmacotherapy research and education, but most of all, enjoys helping people with mental illnesses find the most effective treatment.
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Faculty Members
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Lisa Harmon, PA-C
Jeannie Mentikov, PA-C
Rick Spillman, PA-C
Sarah Wagner, PA-C
Tara Cooper, PA-C
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