Robert A. Baldor, MD
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; University of Massachusetts Medical School; Worcester, Massachusetts
Dr. Robert A. Baldor received his doctorate of medicine from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He continued his postgraduate training at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, where he completed his family practice residency at the Hahnemann Family Health Center. Following completion of his residency, he served three years with the Indian Health Service on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, in New Mexico.
Dr. Baldor is currently Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. He also serves as the Director of Community Based Education for the Office of Medical Education, Medical Director of the Center for Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, and Director of Health Policy Education at the Meyers Primary Care Institute. Dr. Baldor maintains an extensive lecturing schedule on a variety of topics in clinical evidence-based family medicine. Dr. Baldor remains involved in the Massachusetts medical community as a Past-President of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Baldor has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters for such publications as the Journal of Family Practice, Family Medicine Review, and the Journal of Clinical Outcomes. He has served as a reviewer and consultant for the Archives of Family Medicine and the Journal of Family Practice. He is the author of the best-selling textbook Managed Care Made Simple and an assistant editor for 5-Minute Clinical Consult.
Frank J. Domino, MD
Dr. Frank J. Domino is an Associate Professor and Family Medicine Clerkship Director at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was the Associate Editor for Family Medicine to the Up To Date medical database, and is currently the Editor in Chief of Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins’ 5 Minute Clinical Consult series.
Dr. Domino’s major areas of focus include educating all levels of learners (patients, medical students, graduate and post graduate learners) in a variety of subjects including evidence-based medicine, sports medicine, and common ambulatory controversies (vitamin D deficiency, medical ethics, non-pharmacologic treatment of depression and anxiety). Dr. Domino’s areas of faculty development training include problem solving, needs assessment, ambulatory medical ethics, presentation skills, and fluency/professional development in the medical literature. He is the Family Medicine member of the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Medical Education, and Family Medicine representative to the planning committee of Harvard’s Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care course.
Dr. Domino's publications include guideline development for the American Academy of Family Medicine around nutritional counseling, management of chronic pain, genomics and colon cancer (video series), and pre-operative counseling concerns. Since 2004, he has been an invited speaker to the AAFP's Annual Assembly on "Top Evidence Based Publications That Changed My Practice This Year."
Jeremy Golding, MD
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; University of Massachusetts Medical School; Worcester, Massachusetts
Dr. Jeremy Golding’s strong interest in evidence-based medicine led him to create and run a monthly journal club for the Inpatient Service. He is also an Associate Editor for Domino's 5 Minute Clinical Consult. He recently completed a study investigating the predictors and prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the college population of Worcester. He continues to develop software and applications for teaching using the Palm OS PDA and has just created a searchable EKG database for use in teaching electrocardiography.
Jill Grimes, MD
Dr. Jill Grimes is a board-certified family physician practicing in Austin, Texas. She is passionate about preventative medicine and patient education. In keeping with that aspiration, Dr. Grimes has written Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs, hoping a different style of education—stories, not just statistics—might help to lower the shockingly high rate of sexually transmittable diseases in the United States today.
Dr. Grimes was a national merit and President's Endowed Scholar at Texas A&M University, graduating in 1987. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency training in Austin, Texas. Dr. Grimes has been in private practice in Austin since 1994 and is currently working part-time at West Lake Family Practice. She has also enjoyed working intermittently at the University of Texas in their Health Services Department.
Dr. Grimes joined the UMASS medical school faculty as a clinical instructor in 2000, through an innovative internet-based ethics course that connected medical students with practicing family doctors across the country. In 2006, Dr. Grimes became a contributing author and member of the editorial board for the 5-Minute Clinical Consult textbook, and is now an associate editor.
Julie Scott Taylor, MD, MSc
Dr. Julie Taylor is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and the Director of Clinical Curriculum at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She has been an Associate Editor of Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins’ 5 Minute Clinical Consult series since 2008.
Dr. Taylor’s major areas of academic focus include undergraduate medical education and maternal-child heath. She has served in a variety of educational leadership roles at Brown University’s medical school including Family Medicine Clerkship Director, Director of Predoctoral Education, and Director of Curriculum for the Doctoring course. Her clinical, teaching, academic, and advocacy work centers on maternal-child health including family medicine obstetrics. She is the recipient of several local and regional teaching awards and has published extensively in her areas of expertise.