Mark Nadeau, M.D., M.B.A., associate professor and associate residency director in the department of family and community medicine, will assume a new position as the family medicine residency director, effective June 1. Carlos Jaén, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of family and community medicine who holds the Dr. John M. Smith, Jr. Professorship, announced the appointment last month.
“Dr. Nadeau is an accomplished clinical educator with a national reputation of excellence and an outstanding record of service,” Dr. Jaén said.
Dr. Nadeau joined the Health Science Center in September 2005 as an associate professor. He assumed the position of associate residency director in February as part of a plan to help make a smooth transition.
“He has a few months to review the current administrative and academic support for the residency program,” Dr. Jaén said. “And, it gives him the opportunity to explore ways to further improve the residency program.”
Dr. Nadeau already has thoughts on advancing the program.
“As students come through this program, they have very specific focuses and needs,” he said. “I’d like to enhance the training to make it as specific as possible for the residents. I think to make more of a focus for the residents’ specific needs we need to customize their training to maximize the value of it.”
Dr. Nadeau plans to follow a new model of care for family physicians. The new model, the Future of Family Medicine Project, brings together the continuing values of family medicine with new technologies and approaches for practices to better serve the needs of patients. It involves providing patients with a personal medical home, emphasizing a patient-centered care approach that eliminates barriers to access, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Although there will not be sudden changes in the residency program, Dr. Nadeau said: “We will be trying in the future to make many of the changes outlined in the Future of Family Medicine report.”
Dr. Nadeau said the faculty members in the program have tremendous capabilities, teaching skills and great clinical care experience.
“The program excels at providing high-quality primary care to the population in the San Antonio and South Texas areas,” he said. “We have a long history of producing quality physicians for our area and we plan to continue that.”
Dr. Nadeau received his M.D. degree in 1982 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has been chief of physician education for the United States Air Force (USAF) and retired as colonel after 27 years of service in the USAF. He is board certified in family medicine and is a certified physician executive from the Certifying Commission in Medical Management.
