Dr. Elissa Palmer joins School of Medicine
Elissa J. Palmer, M.D. has joined the University of Nevada School of Medicine department of family and community medicine in Las Vegas as a full professor as well as director of reproductive services and director of the rural track residency program.
In this new position, Dr. Palmer will practice the full scope of family medicine including inpatient, outpatient, obstetrics, nursing home, and home visits.
Previously, Dr. Palmer served as the residency program director from 1995 to 2006 at the community-based Altoona Family Physicians Residency in Pennsylvania. Dr. Palmer served as the director of graduate medical education at Altoona Regional Health System in addition to working as the director of Altoona Family Physicians Residency, Williamsburg Family Practice, Pregnancy Care Center, and Women’s Health and Wellness. While at Altoona, she served as chair for the Pennsylvania Program Directors and Medical School Chairs Assembly from 1998 to 2000.
In 2005, she achieved the gold level of the National Program Director Recognition Award. Additionally, Dr. Palmer served as a member of the board of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Medicine and is currently a member of the board of the national Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.
She was active in several state organizations and continues involvement in several national associations that work to shape public policy for family medicine residency programs. She is currently a member of the board of the national Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.
“Dr. Palmer is an excellent addition to our faculty,” notes Dr. Tom Hunt, chairman for the School of Medicine’s family and community medicine department in Las Vegas. “She brings a wide range of clinical and programmatic expertise. We look forward to her shaping our rural track residency program.”
Prior to her work with Altoona, Dr. Palmer worked in a hospital-based practice in Maine where she was involved in the residency institutional review and brought obstetrics into the community family medicine group. Before moving to Maine, she held a private practice in Stowe, Vermont where she precepted in the family medicine residency at the University of Vermont and earned the Parke-Davis National Award for Family Medicine Teaching.
Dr. Palmer received her formal medical training at the Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While there, Dr. Palmer was named chief resident and received the national Mead-Johnson Award. She earned her M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received her undergraduate degree from Manhattan College in New York. Dr. Palmer has published several papers and has lectured internationally.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, and Surgery, as well as ten nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering.
As the largest multi-specialty healthcare focus within the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who both teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice groups have a combined 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices located in the Reno-Sparks area and five physician offices located in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, please visit our Web site.
Emily Wofford, public relations manager for the School of Medicine, can be reached at ewofford@unr.edu
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