Department of Family Medicine

New Faces

Written by Robert Thompson | September 09, 2019

We have a number of new folks joining us this month!



Emily Lines
, MD, a recent graduate of the UCFMR program, is joining the family medicine service at UC Health and will be working for Salud as they stand up their temporary clinic in preparation for the Aurora Commons project. Emily has a passion for the medically underserved and has additional training in maternity care.

Ryan O’Connell, MS, CHES, will be spending a smidgen of time working on a project with Shandra and Beka around LGBTQ health. He is a PhD candidate in Health & Behavioral Sciences at UCD and is and is an Instructor for a variety of classes at UCD and CSPH.



Tamara Oser
, MD, will be joining us as the director of the High Plains Research Network. Tamara hails from Pennsylvania State University, where she served as the residency research director. Her research to date has focused on incorporating diabetes technologies into primary care and studying barriers and facilitators to self-management among those with diabetes.




Sean Oser
, MD will be joining us as the medical director for our Lone Tree practice. Sean served on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, where he was the medical director at the Camp Hill Primary Care Practice and  served as the information technology physician liaison for the Penn State Ambulatory Research Network. He does research on type 1 diabetes as well.

We also have the pleasure of appointing Brooke Dorsey Holliman as a Research Assistant Professor at ACCORDS and Terri James-Banks as a therapist at the Cohen Military Family Clinic.

Welcome to the Family!