Mary N. Hall, MD Chair, Department of Family Medicine
	Mary Hall, MD, is a New York native where she grew up on Long Island. She attended college at SUNY Binghamton in upstate New York and medical school at Cornell University Medical College. She moved south to experience a different part of the country for residency, met her husband and never returned north. After completing residency and fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Dr. Hall joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center as the medical student director. Since 1987, she has enjoyed several roles in the department including Medical Director of the Family Medicine Center and Residency Director, before becoming Chair in 2003. Dr. Hall has a special interest in women's healthcare and the doctor patient relationship. She is involved nationally in work with the American Balint Society. Dr. Hall and her family physician husband, David Hall, have two wonderful teenage children, Katherine and Andrew. They all enjoy traveling, church activities and reading great books.
Matthew Alexander, PhD Director of Behavioral Medicine
	Dr. Alexander received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Michigan. In the seven years between undergraduate and graduate school, Alexander pursued a career as a singer-songwriter with stops in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. His special interests are: collaboration between mental and physical health providers, couples counseling and stress reduction. He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Elaine, and his two children. top
Michele Birch, MD
	Michele Birch, MD, received her undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and her medical degree from University of Virginia School of Medicine. She then migrated farther south to Carolinas Medical Center for her Family Medicine residency, acting as Co-Chief Resident in her final year. After residency, she worked in private practice for 5 years at Carmel Family Physicians. While there she also served as a community preceptor for residents and medical students which cemented her true love for teaching. Thus she joined the Urban Track site in 2006, and then joined the faculty in 2009. Her clinical interests include pediatrics, integrative medicine, procedures, and evidence-based medicine. She and her husband, Jeff Sinn, are the proud parents of Tyler. Outside of work, she enjoys running, bicycling, and anything outdoors. top
Rhett L.R. Brown, MD Medical Director, CMC Elizabeth Family Medicine
	Rhett Brown, MD graduated from Davidson College with a degree in economics, and after graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina, completed his residency in family medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. After opening his own practice with a partner in 1992 and later merging with a multi-specialty clinic, he joined the faculty in 2002 after 10 years of private practice experience. He has interests in practice management, chronic disease management with emphasis on diabetes, heart failure, asthma and HIV. Dr. Brown is active on several community service boards and enjoys bicycling, reading and tennis. top
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD Executive Director, Dickson Institute for Health Studies Research Director and Vice-Chair, CMC Department of Family Medicine
	Michael Dulin, MD attended the University of Texas in Austin where he received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. He then went on to get a PhD at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston where he studied basic mechanisms of learning and memory and, more importantly, met his wife, Andrea. He continued on to get his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and then came to Charlotte where he completed his residency in Family Medicine. After residency, Dr. Dulin worked in private practice for three years at Harrisburg Family Physicians where he precepted medical students and worked with the UNCC nurse practitioner program. He then returned to the Charlotte residency program where he currently serves as the Director of Research and Evidence-Based Medicine. He has a strong interest in primary care oriented research and has developed Charlotte's first practice-based research network which is actively studying issues related to healthcare access and quality. He enjoys spending time outside of work with his wife and two sons, Josh and Liam. top
Robert Jones, MD Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
	Robert Jones, MD received his undergraduate degree and played varsity basketball at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1990, he graduated from the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical System. Afterward, he finished a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at San Jose Medical Center/Stanford University in California. Dr. Jones continued his tenure there as part-time faculty while developing a full-time practice in Palm Springs, California. He relocated to Charlotte when he joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center where he is the Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. He is the Team Physician for the USA Water Polo Men's National Team, the University Of North Carolina at Charlotte and Harding University High School. Currently, Dr. Jones is the Medical Director at two YMCA Health Centers in Charlotte as well as the Student Health Center at UNC Charlotte. top
Darin Kennedy, MD Clinician
	Darin Kennedy, MD is the newest addition to the CHS Family Medicine faculty. A native of North Carolina, he graduated from Wake Forest University in 1993 with a B.S. in Biology, then went on to graduate from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1997. After completing his family medicine residency at Carilion Health System in Roanoke, VA in 2000, he embarked upon eight years with the United States Army as a family physician and flight surgeon. He served two years as the squadron surgeon for 1-10 Cavalry, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, then moved to Fort Benning, GA where he served as family physician. In 2003, he deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Upon his return, he was invited to join the family medicine residency at Martin Army Community Hospital and worked in that capacity from 2004 to 2008. He completed his military service in October of 2008 and returned home to North Carolina to work in the community as a clinician and teacher. Dr. Kennedy's clinical interests include general practice, pediatrics, and minor surgical procedures, to include vasectomies. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, music, singing, playing guitar,and writing. top
Lindsay Kuhn, PA-C Clinician
	Lindsay Kuhn, PA-C attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport Science with a minor in Chemistry. In 2006 she graduated from the Duke University Physician Assistant Program with a Master of Health Sciences degree. She has practiced in Family Medicine in Charlotte, NC ever since and enjoys cultivating relationships with her patients. Her special interests include pediatrics and women's health as well as preventative health care. Lindsay is also involved with the Department of Family Medicine's clinical and community based research. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, practicing yoga, making jewelry, and most of all watching Carolina basketball. top
Sindy McCrystle, ANP-C, MSN Clinician, Geriatric Nurse
	Sindy is the coordinator for the geriatric medical education and curriculum. She received her bachelor's in nursing at Duke University, where she graduated magna cum laude. To further her education and clinical skills, she then went to Simmons College where she received her Adult Nurse Practitioner degree in Primary Care and specialized in geriatrics. Since then, she has combined her administrative and clinical skills to start new programs including the original certified home care program in the North End of Boston, Day care and Nursing Home, teaching Harvard geriatric fellows, creating Senior Health Connection for CHS while managing seven practices and converting CMC-North Park to a family medicine model. Currently, she is participating in mini-fellowship on geriatric curriculum development for physicians at Duke University. She is very active in the community on issues of aging and is the chair of CAP-DA which serves more than 500 clients and on a steering committee for Status of Seniors Initiative while also working on multiple boards and committees. She teaches Geriatrics, Home Care, Palliative Care and systems integration/coordination. top
Vanessa L. McPherson, MD Residency Director
	Vanessa McPherson, MD grew up in a family of nine in Hickory, N.C. She received her undergraduate education at UNC-Charlotte, and attended medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. After completing her residency training at the University of South Carolina, she practiced in a small group practice in Belmont, N.C., for several years where she served as a community preceptor for medical students and a guest preceptor at the residency's family medicine center. She joined the faculty in 2000 as the associate director of the rural program in Monroe, N.C., and completed UNC's faculty development fellowship in 2002. She began her current role as Residency Director of our program in 2003, and completed the National Institute for Program Director Development in 2006. Her interests include performing and teaching procedures, women's health, inpatient medicine, information technology and assisting residents in their professional development using feedback and self-reflection. She and her husband, Kevin, are proud parents of Carson. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, trying new restaurants and staying active. top
Darlyne Menscer, MD Director of Geriatric Education
	Darlyne Menscer, MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and has been at Carolinas Medical Center ever since. She completed her family medicine residency here in 1982 and has continued on in the faculty. She has a special interest in geriatrics, hospital medicine and medical politics and has served as president of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society and president of the North Carolina Medical Society. She lives in Charlotte with her husband, Farnum Gray, and they enjoy travel and photography.  top
Shay E. Phillips, BS, PharmD, BCPS Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
	Shay Phillips, PharmD earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga., in 1998.  She completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Florida A&M University in 2002 graduating Cum Laude, and immediately afterwards received residency training at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., where she also served as adjunct faculty at Florida A&M University's Tampa Bay campus. Before joining the faculty, Dr. Phillips was an Assistant Professor at Hampton University School of Pharmacy in Hampton, Va. Her job responsibilities consisted of didactic lecturing in the Drug and Disease State course and serving as a Clinical Pharmacist at the Sentara Ambulatory Care Center in Norfolk, Va. Her activities at the Sentara Ambulatory Care Center included operating a cardiovascular clinic, serving as a therapeutics liaison between physicians and nurse practitioners, educating patients, students and medical residents and developing/updating individual patient medication lists to improve continuity of care. She was awarded the Preceptor of the Year award for the 2005-2006 academic year. In 2006, Dr. Phillips received board certification from the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties ranking her as one of 94 Pharmacotherapy Specialists in Virginia. Her interests include improving therapeutic management of pain, Hepatitis C and cardiovascular disease. In her spare time, Dr. Phillips enjoys international traveling, spending time with family and friends and shopping. top
David Price, MD, Associate Director Associate Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
	A native of Atlanta, GA., David Price, MD completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia before returning to Georgia to attend medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. His internship and residency were completed at Carolinas Medical Center. He then completed a sports medicine fellowship in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dr. Price then traveled around Australia doing locum tenens work before rejoining the Department of Family Medicine as faculty in 2003. In 2005, he became Associate Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship which was started that year. Dr. Price has a special interest in endurance sports and participates in marathons and triathlons. His other interests include singing and jamming on his acoustic guitar, listening to music, reading, and traveling. Dr. Price and his wife, Ali, are the proud parents of to wonderful sons, Evan and Carter. top
Lawrence W. Raymond, MD, ScM Director of Occupational/Environmental Medicine
	Larry Raymond, MD studied engineering at Manhattan College and Harvard University and worked in the petrochemical industry before going to Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Raymond did academic pulmonary and occupational medicine in the Navy and at Yale, Cornell, Baylor and Exxon before joining Carolinas HealthCare System in 1995. He and his wife, Claire, an interior designer, have four grown children. Among Dr. Raymond's outside interests are hiking, symphonic music and running. top
Stacey Searson, MD Director of Maternal Child Health
	Stacey Searson, MD is a native of St. Louis, Mo. She attended the University of Notre Dame for her undergraduate studies. She subsequently graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and moved to Charlotte for residency here at CMC. She joined the faculty in 2006 after spending some time traveling as a locum tenens physician. Special interests within family medicine include maternity care, pediatrics, and international medicine. Outside of medicine, she enjoys travel, photography and spending time with her husband, Tom, daughter, Ellie, and son, John.  top
Dael M. Waxman, MD Medical Director of Behavioral Medicine
	Dael Waxman, MD, graduated with honors from the University of Kansas in 1980. After attending medical school there, he did his residency in family medicine at the University of Arizona. He has completed two fellowships: one in faculty development at the University of Arizona, and one in family systems medicine at the University of Rochester in New York. He has served on the faculties of the University of Texas-Galveston and the University of Connecticut departments of family medicine prior to his current position as Medical Director of Behavioral Medicine. His professional interests include integration of mental health in primary care, physician-patient communication and mind/body medicine. Outside of medicine, Dr. Waxman enjoys spending time with his family, wife, Brenda, and daughter, Meara.  He also loves to travel and dabbles in acting. top
Patricia White, MD Director, Pre-Doctoral Education
	Trisha White, MD is a family physician and joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1997. She serves as the Director of the Pre-doctoral Education Program for UNC-Chapel Hill medical students and coordinates our fourth-year visiting students program. She is the Founder and Director of the North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program, a program which provides service opportunities for aspiring health professional students who seek to help those currently underserved by the healthcare system. Trisha is married to Craig who practices family medicine in their hometown of Davidson. Craig co-founded the Free Clinic of Our Towns, which offers free healthcare, medication and social services to the surrounding communities. They have two daughters, Lauren and Krista. As a family, they love traveling, hiking, snowskiing, and running. Trisha loves art and gardening. top
Irene Zink, MD Associate Director/Urban Site Coordinator
	Irene Zink, MD grew up on a farm in Ohio as the youngest of five girls. She received her undergraduate education at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., majoring in German with a minor in biology. During her college education, she spend her junior year abroad in Heidelberg, Germany. Before going to medical school at the University of Cincinnati, she took two years off to work and do volunteer work in several underserved areas to help solidify her decision to become a physician. Caring for the underserved of our society has always been her goal in medicine and she was the first Urban Track Resident at Carolinas Medical Center. After completing residency, she worked for five years at Carmel Family Physicians in south Charlotte and had an emphasis in her practice in the areas of women's healthcare and eating disorders.  In 2004, she joined the faculty as Associate Program Director and Urban Site Coordinator. Her areas of interest in family medicine include urban underserved medicine, women's health care, HIV/AIDs, community medicine, eating disorders and a variety of procedures. She lives on the lake and enjoys wakeboarding, snowskiing, outdoor activities, fitness and spending time with her three dogs. top