FORT KENT, Maine — At the 27th annual Family Medicine update held in early April in Bar Harbor, Dr. Silwana Sidorczuk became president of the Board of Directors for the Maine Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) for a two year term.
A member of the MAFP Board of Directors since 2014, Sidorczuk served as vice president from 2017-2019.
Sidorczuk is a family physician at Northern Maine Medical Center’s Acadia Family Health Center in Madawaska. She has been very in the education and political arenas at the state level and is a strong advocate for her patients. Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, she has been practicing as a family physician since 2007.
She is currently working with all of the St. John Valley school fifth-graders to raise awareness about the risks of tobacco use.
Sidorczuk is committed to education and rural medicine. She is a faculty member for the Tufts University School of Medicine, serving as an offsite clinical supervisor for medical students. Tufts has designated the Madawaska Health Center as a Maine Track teaching site. In addition, she also serves as one of the faculty members in NMMC’s partnership with Quinnipiac University, Frank Netter School of Medicine, mentoring and providing clinical experience in the rural hospital and outpatient setting for fourth-year medical students.
In August 2017, the Commission on Membership and Member Services for the AAFP conferred on Sidorczuk the status of fellow, which recognizes AAFP members who have distinguished themselves among their colleagues, as well as in their communities, by their service to family medicine, by their advancement of health care to the American people, and by their professional development through medical education and research.
Sidorczuk said she views the appointment as an opportunity to advocate for family physicians, patients and citizens of northern Maine; to enhance communication to and among physician members and primary care physicians; and to provide clinical and policy information to family physicians in northern Maine.
With her role as a faculty member for three schools of medicine, this is also an opportunity to promote what northern Maine has to offer and to develop recruiting connections.
Submitted by the Communications Office of Northern Maine Medical Center.
