David L. Gaspar, M.D.

Director, Medical Student Education and the Rural and Community Care Clerkship

Research, academic, or clinical interests: The Patient-Centered clinical method, the effects of pharmaceutical marketing, rational drug therapy instruction, curriculum design, medical student education, and oral health.

Personal interests: Tennis, bridge, collecting wine, WII history.

David completed medical school and his Family Medicine residency at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. That makes him Canadian, eh? He and his family moved from London, Ontario, to Detroit in August of 1992. He was a faculty member at Wayne State University until June 1999. In 1994 he completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at Michigan State University. He is presently Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. His wife, Laurie, is Chair of Radiation Oncology at the University of Colorado.

He and Laurie have two sons. Fraser (not Frazier) is in graduate school working on his MPH at UC Berkeley. He continues to play defense in the beer leagues in California after having played competitive hockey all his life. He was a member of the University of Colorado ACHA Division III Hockey National Championship team in 2005. As Don Cherry says " Tough like a real Canadian."

Preston is still the best tennis player in the family. He played #1 Singles each year and was All-State for his last 3 years at Grosse Pointe South High School in Michigan. Since graduating from the University of Michigan Undergraduate Business School in 2005, he has worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

Murray is our miniature dachshund, and Charlie is our Chihuahua. We adopted Charlie from the Chihuahua rescue in Denver recently and he has become one of our family.

Katie Watts

Medical Student Education Program Coordinator

Katie and her husband are both natives to Colorado. She has two active teenage daughters. Her oldest daughter is a senior in high school and plays competitive soccer. Her youngest daughter is a freshman in high school; she plays volleyball and basketball.

If you have any questions about Family Medicine or about the Department of Family Medicine in general please email Katie.

Inis Jane Bardella, M.D., FAAFP

Predoctoral Education and Family Medicine Faculty

Michele Doucette, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Education Specialist, Medical Student Education

In addition to her responsibilities at GSU, she also served as a Health Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity in Atlanta, GA. Her work at the CDC included "translational" research writing, which focused on evaluating the most current research in the area of overweight/obesity and chronic disease and summarizing the findings in written materials targeted for health professionals and the lay public.

In 2007, Michele moved to Colorado where she held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Most recently, Michele served as Research Director for America On the Move (AOM) at the University of Colorado Denver, Center for Human Nutrition (CHN). Her work with AOM and James O. Hill, PhD, at the CHN entailed new program development and research looking at a tailored "small changes" approach to achieving and maintaining healthy lifestyles.

Michele also serves as the 2009-2010 Chair of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group, a 4,700 member subgroup of the American Dietetic Association specializing in weight management.

In her spare time, Michele enjoys hiking, biking, photography, cooking, and spending time with friends and family!

Mark Deutchman, M.D.

Oral and Rural Health & Interprofession Initiatives

Caroline J. LeClair, D.O.

Mentored Scholarly Activity (MSA) & Student Research

Brenda Baumgarten

AHEC Placement Coordinator