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Elizabeth Dobles, MD. Dartmouth Medical School Beth Dobles completed a clerkship at GLFHC last fall. She earned a BA in biopsychology from Barnard College, where she volunteered at a homeless shelter. She has also studied chemistry at the University of Vermont and physics at Harvard Extension. She spent a summer working with a family practitioner in Pawtucket, where her commitment to primary care and the underserved came into focus. Elizabeth lists learning to cook, family, reading and golf as interests.

Kathryn Ellis, MD John Hopkins Medical School Kathryn Ellis has a BA in philosophy from Wellesley and grew up in Northboro, MA, where she co-founded the Wellesley Association for Volunteer Efforts to promote community service. She has worked as a substance abuse prevention counselor for homeless and runaway teenagers, volunteered at Rosie’s Place in Boston and a battered women’s shelter in Baltimore. She also worked a summer at Camp Joy. She enjoys hiking, camping and piano.

Vivian Esparza, MD University of Texas Health Science Center Vivian was born in El Paso and earned a BS in nursing and in psychology from St. Louis University in Missouri. She worked as an oncology nurse while completing pre-med courses. She wanted to work with a Chicano population after her residency. She has family in New England and lists sharing good food and biking among her interests.

Elise Henricks, MD University of Rochester Elise earned her BA from Penn State in biochemistry and spent a semester at the Australian National University in Canberra. Before coming to the residency, she had completed a rotation at the Indian Health Service at the Crow Reservation in Montana and rotation at GLFHC. Before medical school, Elise spent a year in Brooklyn at a Jesuit volunteer with homeless families whose children were in foster care. During her summer medicine fellowship, she finished a paper on “Norplant Usage Among Women at an Inner-City Health Center.” Her interests include reading, sewing, playing classical clarinet, mountain biking, tennis and soccer.

Debra Roberts, MD Boston University From Woburn, MA, Debra earned a BS in biology from the University of Massachusetts. After four years at a school without a family practice faculty, she was eager to learn. She completed rotations at Boston City Hospital. Her community activities include the Woburn Coalition Against Substance Abuse, Woburn PTO and BU Primary Care Society. She also camps, skis, hikes and reads.

Laurel Ruzicka, MD University of Massachusetts Medical School Laurel got a BA in zoology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For two years between undergraduate and medical school, she worked as a research technician in the Department of Pathology at Tufts School of Medicine and published several papers on neurochemistry. Laurel also completed an intensive Spanish course in Oaxaca then continued her Spanish studies. She has finished rotations in Zambia and the Indian Health Service in both Kotzebue, Alaska and Zuni, New Mexico. She has worked at a perennial nursery for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and for the Musk Ox Development Corporation.

Amy Sapp, MD Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine Amy is from Georgia and wanted a chance to experience New England winters before deciding to come here, so she completed an elective between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 1995. She earned her BS in neuroscience summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University, where she was a member of the outing club and co-founder of a student drunk driving prevention project. Because she’d like to live in a rural setting, Amy is interested in preventive medicine, acute care and obstetrics. She likes to camp and take her dog line skating.

Tanja van der Linde, MD, MPH Tufts University She earned her undergraduate degree in anthropology and biology from SUNY at Albany. She also studied 19th century British literature in the Netherlands. She lists commitment to teaching, a community hospital and contact with the Latino community as important factors in her decision to practice family medicine. She has worked with immigrant and Dutch underserved populations in The Hague and at La Maternidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. She also completed a family medicine elective through Brown University at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket. She also spent time working at a clinic in Indonesia.

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