Leadership

PRESIDENT Susan Upham, MD, MPH, FACOEM

Dr. Upham was recently selected as the new VP of NECOEM. She is the physician owner of Bayside Employee Health Center in Portland, ME which she established with several physician colleagues in 1999.  This is the only woman physician owned, private OEM practice in the State of Maine. Dr. Upham graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in biochemistry in 1982, received her MD degree from the University of Massachusetts (UMMS) in 1986 and went on to train as a family physician at the UMMS Fitchburg Family Practice Program which she completed in 1989. She discovered occupational medicine while practicing as an FP and decided to move away from primary care and complete the UMMS fellowship in OEM in 1993. She became particularly interested in indoor air quality issues while in her fellowship and obtained training in this at NIOSH in Cincinnati. This led to many years of IAQ consulting with local employers during her employment in Portland. She taught OEM classes for many years at the UNE Medical School as well.

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In her pursuit of finding non-pharmaceutical alternatives to treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, she sought training at the Harvard International Structural Acupuncture Program for Physicians and has implemented this Japanese style of acupuncture into her practice. She is now a teaching assistant with the AcuMed Integrated Structural Acupuncture Program for physicians which arose out of the original program and is now associated with the University of New England.  Dr. Upham has been on the Board of NECOEM and the editor of the NECOEM newsletter, The Reporter, for about 5 years. During that time, she has penned multiple articles, including ones focusing on physician burnout and complementary alternative medicine in occupational medicine.  Dr. Upham is married to Paul Upham, MD, whom she met in medical school, and who has been a great support to her over the years in medical practice.  Paul, an internist, transitioned from urgent care in Massachusetts to occupational medicine in Maine and has just recently joined her practice after leaving a long-term medical directorship at a local hospital’s OEM practice. They raised a son, Matthew, in Kennebunk, ME who is now a computer programmer with a San Francisco firm and has moved back home pending the resolution of the pandemic related closures in that area.  They enjoy cruises, caring for their dogs and spending time in the White Mountains.
SECRETARY/TREASURER David Berube, MD, MPH, FACOEM, MD, MPH Dr. Berube is the Chief Medical Officer for Lincoln Financial Group. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at both the Yale University School of Medicine, and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and is a staff physician for the Connecticut VA Healthcare System. He has over 25 years of patient care, academic teaching, and health care management experience. His prior experience includes serving as Chief Medical Officer at Liberty Mutual, National Medical Director at Aetna, Inc., and Chief of Occupational & Environmental Medicine at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Berube is board certified in Internal Medicine and also in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Vermont School of Medicine, and completed his occupational and environmental fellowship training at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he also received his Masters Degree in Public Health. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Program
AC CHAIR Austin Sumner, MD, MPH
EDUCATION CHAIR Romero Santiago, MD, MPH.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michela Capobianco

DIRECTORS

12/21 to 12/24

Khaula Khatlani, MD, MSc, Jacqueline Cook, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Fred Kohanna, MD, MBA, FACOEM

12/22 to 12/25

Uchechukwu Onuoha, MD, MPH, Marie-Christie David, DO, MPH, Peter Lee, MD, MPH, FACOEM

12/23 to 12/26

Romero Santiago, MD, MPH, Austin Sumner, MD, MPH, Efia James, MD, MPH, Raymond Hicks, MD, MSc, MPH, FACOEM, Donna Ferreira, ANP, MS, COHN-S/CM, FAAOHN (APP)