Faculty in the Family Medicine Residency Program

Faculty

Program Director
	Teresa W. Zryd, M.D., M.S.P.H., is the director of the Wright State University Family Medicine Residency Program. She was previously director of the Dayton Community Family Medicine Residency Program and is vice chair of graduate medical education for the Department of Family Medicine. She is a 1995 graduate of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and a graduate of the Dayton Community Family Medicine Residency Program, where she also served as chief resident. Dr. Zryd joined the residency as faculty in August 1998. She is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and also holds a master's in public health from Western Kentucky University. Dr. Zryd serves as chief medical consultant for the Dayton Public Schools and team physician for Fairborn City Schools. Her special interests include preventive medicine, school/public health, and adolescent medicine.
Core Faculty
	Michael T. Boggs, M.D., is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Wright State University. Dr. Boggs is a graduate of The Ohio State University and received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio. He completed his residency training at the Good Samaritan Family Practice Program, where he served as chief resident. Dr. Boggs maintains a full time practice in the rural community of Lewisburg, providing the full spectrum of family medicine, from newborn care to pediatric and adult medicine.
	Katherine A. Clark, D.O., F.A.A.F.P., F.A.I.H.Q., an associate director in the residency, has been faculty since 1995. Dr Clark is an attending on the inpatient service and precepts in the family health center. She is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. A graduate of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she has an appointment as a clinical professor, she has an interest in osteopathic manipulative therapy. She is certified in quality improvement and utilization review and is a health plan medical director. Dr Clark has been active in organized medicine locally and at the state and national level. Special clinical interests include care of the elderly, preventive care and women's health.
	Joan Cooper, M.D., associate director and obstetrics and women's health coordinator, is a 1984 graduate of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and completed the family practice residency program at Miami Valley Hospital in 1987. She became an associate director of the Miami Valley Hospital Family Practice Residency Program in 1995. Dr. Cooper has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics and serves as an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine. She has also completed additional training in OB/GYN and supervises the family practice obstetrics track.
	Denise A. Griffith, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and received her bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. She completed her Family Practice Residency at Miami Valley Hospital in 1994. Dr. Griffith was in private practice at East Dayton Health Center and part-time faculty for the family practice residency at Miami Valley Hospital until July 2008 when she joined the Wright State University Family Medicine Residency full time as an associate director and inpatient service coordinator on the Miami Valley Hospital campus. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University. Her interests are providing healthcare for an underserved community, incorporating faith in practice, and inpatient medicine.
	Paul J. Hershberger, Ph.D., became the director of behavioral science for the residency program in 2001. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Hershberger earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology at The Ohio State University in 1989. He is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and is board certified in clinical health psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. In addition to his teaching responsibilities with the residency, Dr. Hershberger maintains an active research program as well as a private practice. Specific interests include health promotion, stress and coping, treatment adherence and cognitive therapy. Dr. Hershberger's monthly electronic newsletter, *e-quilibrium*, addresses a variety of topics pertaining to behavior and health. (Read archived issues here.)
	Erin Lindsay Mathews, M.D., Obstetrics and Women's Health Faculty, joined the Miami Valley Hospital Family Practice Residency faculty in 2005. She is a 2002 graduate of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and a 2005 graduate of the Miami Valley Hospital Family Practice Residency Program. She also completed a primary care faculty development fellowship at Michigan State University in 2006, as well as additional training in obstetrics and gynecology.
	Deborah E. Miller, M.D., associate director and faculty and resident development coordinator for the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency. She graduated from WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine in 1991 and completed her residency training with St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency, Dayton, in 1994. She held faculty appointments with the St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency and the Dayton Community Family Medicine Residency, including primary responsibilities as medical director of the Indian Ripple Family Health Center prior to joining the Miami Valley Hospital Family Practice Residency in 2007. Dr. Miller completed a faculty development fellowship at Michigan State University in 2000 and a certificate in health care management with the American College of Physician Executives in 2006. She is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dr Miller is the current medical director of the Berry Family Health Center at the Miami Valley campus. She will finish a masters degree in Academic Medicine with the University of Southern California in August of 2009. Her interests include resident and faculty development, health care for women, preventative medicine, medical economics, and practice management.
	Anne M. Proulx, D.O., associate director, joined the faculty in 1997 after five years in private practice in Dayton and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her osteopathic rotating internship at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, New York. Dr. Proulx moved to Pittsburgh to complete her family practice residency at Shadyside Hospital, now University of Pittsburgh Medicine Center-Shadyside, and is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Proulx gained additional expertise and training at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Academic Fellowship in Family Medicine. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine. The Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine awarded Dr. Proulx its 2006 Humanism in Medicine Award. Her other interests lie in patient education, research, women's health issues and balancing family life. She shares this latter interest with her husband, Scott, and two children, Meredith and Daniel.
	H. Dusty Rhodes, D.O., is the sports medicine educator, an outpatient preceptor, and inpatient attending. Dr. Rhodes is a 1982 graduate of the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his family practice residency at Miami Valley Hospital in 1991. He also completed a sports medicine fellowship at Grant Medical Center in Columbus in 1992 and is certified in sports medicine. Dr. Rhodes is the coordinator of education and research at the Miami Valley Hospital Sports Medicine Center and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. He is involved in team care with local high schools and serves as assistant team physician for the University of Dayton Flyers.
	Rhea Rowser, M.D., associate director of curriculum, Obstetrics Faculty, is a 1996 graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her family practice residency training at Miami Valley Hospital in 1999. She completed a primary care faculty development fellowship at Michigan State University in 2000. She also has completed additional training in obstetrics and gynecology and continues to practice obstetrics. Dr. Rowser oversees the curriculum for the residency program.
	Michael J. Ruff, M.D., is a former graduate of our residency program, completing his training in 2001. He joined our faculty in January 2006 after spending two years as a member of the faculty with the Southwest Oklahoma Family Medicine Residency in Lawton, Oklahoma. Prior to that, he was in private practice in Englewood, Ohio. He earned an undergraduate degree from Wright State University and his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. Dr. Ruff is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and an assistant professor with the Department of Family Medicine of Wright State University. In addition to his duties in resident education, he is currently serving as medical director for the Good Samaritan Family Health Center. His areas of interest include electronic health records, preventive medicine, diabetes, obstetrics, and sports medicine.
	Barry Skrobot, M.D., is an outpatient preceptor and inpatient attending for the residency program. Dr. Skrobot is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a family practice residency at Miami Valley Hospital in 1978. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and works in Employee Health at Miami Valley Hospital and the perinatal clinics of Montgomery County.
	Philip S. Whitecar, M.D., is a professor of family medicine and geriatrics in the Department of Family Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Whitecar joined the residency part time in September 1995 and full time in July 1997. He graduated in 1978 from Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville, Missouri, the birthplace of osteopathic medicine. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1983 and completed his residency at the University of Missouri, then served with the National Health Service Corp in Greenville, Ohio. Since joining the Wright State University faculty, he has served as medical director of University Family Physicians, Indian Ripple Family Health Center, and Ohio's Integrated Hospice. While enjoying all aspects of being a family physician, he especially enjoys managing "difficult" patients and helping resident physicians prepare for success in the business of medicine. His special interests include care of chronic pain and/or addictions, and assisting patients with lifestyle changes, such as weight loss and smoking cessation.
	Kathleen Long Wittberg, M.D., is graduate of the University of Dayton and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dr Wittberg completed her family medicine residency at Good Samaritan Hospital and has been a part-time faculty member since 1990. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine. Dr. Wittberg serves the residency as a preceptor, resident advisor, and assists the residency in other academic areas. Her clinical interests are in preventive care, geriatrics and developmental disabilities. She is a former recipient of the Attending of the Year and the Physicians Making a Difference Awards at Good Samaritan Hospital. Dr. Wittberg is in private practice in Englewood and is involved with the Miami Valley Academy of Family Practice serving both as program director for their annual CME course and treasurer. She volunteers with Reach Out Dayton, a local free clinic for the uninsured of the community. She enjoys hiking, choral singing, cooking and watching her U.D. Flyer basketball team.
	John R. Miller, R.Ph., is the outpatient and inpatient pharmacy educator for the Wright State University Family Medicine Residency. He divides his time between inpatient and outpatient family practice resident teaching. Initiatives in research, group medical visits, and anticoagulation management have begun in the Berry Family Health Center. John received his pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has 20 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist in the hospital setting. John supervises the education of pharmacy externs from Ohio Northern University, where he is assistant clinical professor in the College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice at Ohio Northern University.
	Linda Ontko, M.S. Linda Ontko is the evaluation and education coordinator for the Wright State University Family Medicine Residency. Linda has a baccalaureate degree in radiation medicine from Wittenberg University and a master's degree in education from the University of Dayton. She has worked in the allied health education field as program director for medical imaging and assistant academic dean. She has more than 30 years experience in health care, allied health education, and accreditation.