{"id":13505,"date":"2020-06-30T11:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:46:18","slug":"uhp-welcomes-two-new-family-medicine-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/uhp-welcomes-two-new-family-medicine-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"UHP Welcomes Two New Family Medicine Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featured photo: Dr. Robert Carlisle &amp; Dr. Thomas Quattlebaum. <\/em><br><br>Written by Marybeth Kotrodimos <br>Photos by Vina Cristobal<br><br>This is truly an exciting time for UHP\u2019s Family Medicine clinic.\u00a0 Besides moving from their long time home at the Physician Center at Mililani to their beautiful new location at Pali Momi Outpatient Center, they are welcoming two new physicians to their team. These two doctors come from very different places, each bringing important and relevant clinical skills and experience in education and community services to the clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr.Thomas Quattlebaum<\/strong> comes to us from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in New Mexico, where, as a primary care physician, he delivered full spectrum care to the largely underserved population living on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico.\u00a0 There, he provided inpatient and obstetric services, including assessing, identifying and treating issues related to addiction, nutrition, and dietary access for low-income families.\u00a0 Dr. Quattlebaum was also responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team in developing local chronic pain management policies which resulted in a 50% decrease in opioid prescriptions. His extensive community work includes assisting in relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi, as well as developing services, conducting research, and delivering care to underserved populations in Ghana, Dominican Republic, and Lesotho, Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year we have all been faced with large sweeping changes that affected our work and lives, but it is fair to say that Dr. Quattlebaum has faced more of it than most. He describes the past six months as \u201cquite a time of transition\u201d since he and his wife welcomed their first child in December. <br><br>\u201cThen we moved with our 3-month-old baby to Oahu on March 2nd just days before Hawaii had its first COVID case and a few weeks before the stay at home order. And then I started the new job with UHP on April 1st that seemed to be right in the middle of when all clinical operations were rapidly changing. So it&#8217;s been a bit of a whirlwind, to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, Dr. Quattlebaum\u2019s new job with UHP is, as he says, \u201cvastly different\u201d from his last one in New Mexico, since he\u2019s now in a supervising and teaching role.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed it so far,\u201d he says. \u201cIt has been academically stimulating and invigorating to work with the residents who have been so welcoming to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says that he and his wife have been \u201cvery happy overall to be here\u201d especially since his wife is from Waipahu and is now close to family members. \u201cWe\u2019ve also been so happy to see Hawaii\u2019s response to the pandemic,\u201d he adds, saying that they feel that Hawaii is probably the best place to be at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Robert Thomas Carlisle <\/strong>didn\u2019t need to travel so far to join the team at our Family Medicine clinic.&nbsp; Dr. Carlisle has been serving as a family medicine physician with Tripler Army Medical Center\u2019s Department of Family Medicine since 2010. His background includes education, with over ten years of experience teaching residents and MD, DO, PA, and NP students in settings which include outpatient clinic, procedures, inpatient care, obstetric labor and delivery, and nursing home care. He has also served as Residency Program Director at The West Virginia University Department of Family Medicine, and as Primary Care Service Line Director and as Medical Director at Tripler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming from Tripler, Dr. Carlisle also brings with him years of experience in telemedicine, which as a mode of delivering care has been put into practice at Family Medicine, as well as other UHP practice sites, during the pandemic. \u201cThe Department of Defense,\u201d he tells us, \u201chas been able to do virtual care for some time, so when the pandemic came, it wasn\u2019t such a heavy lift.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Carlisle said that UHP\u2019s Family Medicine move to Pali Momi went \u201cphenomenally well.&nbsp; The staff had a well-designed system.\u201d&nbsp; In fact, he said, \u201cThe move could not have gone more smoothly.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About our Family Medicine Department, he said, \u201cEveryone has admirable motivations.&nbsp; They are quite inspiring to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 30, 2020 &#8212; Dr. Robert Carlisle and Dr. Thomas Quattlebaum are the new additions to the UHP Family Medicine team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fm-docs-2020.png?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13529,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions\/13529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}