Paul Davis, MD
Family Medicine
Paul Davis came to the Residency Program from the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) where he was president of medical staffing years past. He therefore brings a unique understanding of Native and rural health care delivery to the program. Before coming north to Alaska, he worked in rural North Dakota as one of 2 doctors in a small rural town. When asked about this time there, he felt that Q2 call for approximately 3 years was a loss of half the good cases. Paul has advanced training in surgery, colonoscopy, and esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Along with Dwight Smith, he leads the wilderness medicine training. He will do anything outdoors but especially enjoys kayaking in Prince William Sound and hunting in Western Alaska.

Barb Doty, MD
Family Medicine
Pilot and rural practice enthusiast, Barb Doty has practiced as a Family Physician in the Matanuska Valley for over 16 years. She trained at the University of Colorado where she was chief resident. She also co-founded the Alaska Family Medicine Residency and is the Associate Director of Rural Education. Barb has gained regional, national, and international recognition through her involvement with AAFP and WONCA, World Organization for Family Doctors. She also lives on an airplane runway that her husband and she use extensively.

Daron Dykema, MD
4th Year Chief Resident
Born and raised in western Montana, Daron took a four-year break from the mountains to attend Trinity Christian College in the Chicago area. He then took a four-year break from winter by attending Loma Linda University medical school in Southern California. He welcomed the opportunity to return to both mountains and winter while pursuing his residency training here in the amazing setting of Alaska. Daron graduated from the Alaska Family Medicine Residency program in June 2007 and is now our 4th Year Chief Resident. Outside of education (or when he can make it part of his education), he enjoys traveling the globe and finding his next adventure anywhere he’s never been. He has especially enjoyed his travels throughout Latin America, and practices his Spanish whenever he has the chance.

Ron Healy, MD
Family Medicine
Ron Healy is a Canadian by birth and has since become a U.S. citizen. He completed his undergraduate degree in science at Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Canada, his MD degree at the University of British Columbia, and then did a 1st year rotating internship at Memorial University Hospital, Newfoundland. Doctor Healy has worked as an emergency room physician, a flight surgeon for an F-18 squadron with the Canadian Armed Forces, and as a small town practitioner in both British Columbia and the state of Montana. After thirteen years of small town clinical experience, Dr. Healy completed a residency in Family Practice in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was subsequently hired as a faculty member. His decision to join the residency program in Anchorage was motivated by his love for living and working in northern, multicultural settings. He and his wife Mary have one teenage daughter and together they enjoy fishing, hunting, skiing, bicycling, wooden boats, and church activities.

Jennet Hermiston, MD
Family Medicine
Jennet is originally from Australia, growing up on a sheep property in rural Victoria. After completing undergraduate studies at the Australian National University she came to the United States as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in 1991. It was at that time she met her future husband while visiting Alaska. Jennet completed Medical School at Saba University School of Medicine followed by residency at the Alaska Family Medicine Residency. Jennet graduated from residency as chief resident in 2002. After graduation she worked for four years in Seward, a small rural Alaskan fishing community. During this time she provided comprehensive health care and was the medical director for Providence Seward Medical Center. Recently Jennet returned to Anchorage to join the faculty to pursue a passion to teach and prepare residents for rural practice. Jennet enjoys exploring Alaska and spending time with her family.

Harold Johnston, MD
Program Director
Family Medicine
Harold Johnston was born and raised in Anchorage and returned after medical school at the University of Washington and residency at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. He quickly became Medical Director of the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Clinic and with the help of Barb Doty and fellow faculty started the Residency in 1998. In 2003, he was awarded the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach award by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Only 11 residency directors out of all specialties in the entire US were honored with this award. In his spare time, he loves to sail and spend time with his family.

Janel Kam-Magruder, MD
Family Medicine
Clinical Faculty
Never without a smile, Janel Kam-Magruder helps the residents and faculty maintain the spirit of aloha. Before medicine she planned on becoming a wildlife ecologist in Puerto Rico but through a public health trip to the Philippines she found her calling. Janel can usually be found picking berries on her summer days off and skate skiing during the winter. Her husband (and fellow graduate of the residency program) dragged her here initially. However, her skiing addiction and desire to raise her children amidst such beauty keeps her in Alaska. She regularly returns to her home state of Hawaii for rest with her family.

Anne Musser, DO
Family Medicine
Anne Musser was drawn to Alaska by the spectacular country and many opportunities for outdoor activities, as well as the challenge to obtain dual accreditation (MD/DO) for the Alaska Family Medicine Residency Program. She grew up in Solana Beach, California, attended medical school in Kansas City, Missouri, and did her osteopathic internship and family medicine residency in Phoenix, Arizona. Her practice experiences include solo private practice and academic medicine. She is an osteopathic family physician and incorporates the use of osteopathic manipulation in her clinical practice. She has a special interest in caring for adults with disabilities. In addition to clinical care, Dr. Musser’s main professional interests include medical education, grant writing, and curriculum development. She enjoys hiking, biking, backpacking, and spending time with her dogs.

Ray Pastorino, JD, PhD
Behavioral Science
Ray Pastorino, clinical psychologist, oversees the behavioral science curriculum. He spent 12 years in Juneau, Alaska, working with the University of Alaska and the State as an attorney, administrative hearing officer and professor. He returns to Alaska from Pocatello, Idaho, where he was faculty and vice chair with the Idaho State University’s Family Practice Residency. Ray’s background in law and behavioral psychology and his strong rural Alaskan ties make him an invaluable asset to our staff. His passions include conflict resolution, cultural competency, integrated medicine, traditional healing, and patient-centered care.

John Schwartz, MD
Family Medicine/Internal Medicine
John Schwartz graduated from the University of Kansas Medical School and completed training in Panama and the University of New Mexico. He has broad experience in Emergency Medicine, International Medicine and Poverty Medicine. He worked with the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center for 14 years, and was its Medical Director for 5 years. Dr. Schwartz was named 2003 Family Physician of the year by the Alaska Academy of Family Physicians. He is boarded in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Geriatrics. He oversees our Geriatrics curriculum and reads our echocardiograms. He is fluent in Spanish and speaks French and Tagalog.

Julie Sicilia, MD
Family Medicine
Julie Sicilia came to us from New York where she attended SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine. She continued her medical education at Guthrie Family Medicine Residency. After residency, her clinical experience was further enhanced by her diverse practice locations – including urban New York, rural New York, rural Minnesota, and Military Locum Tenens. Julie is thriving in Alaska. She moved to Anchorage with her husband (Jeff May) and her dogs. What Julie loves about this residency program is that it “houses a great group of people who are dedicated to training rural MDs to serve underserved populations”. Julie’s professional interests include public health systems, community education, adolescent medicine, pediatrics, and OB/women’s health.

Dwight Smith, MD
Family Medicine
Dwight Smith graduated from Loma Linda University and completed his residency at Riverside General Hospital in California. He practiced for 10 years in various rural sites, including Alaska as a locum tenens. He served on the faculty at Tacoma, Washington and then was the Associate Director for the San Joaquin General Hospital program in California, before joining the Alaska Family Medicine Residency program in 1996. When not teaching or advocating legislatively he enjoys sea kayaking, backpacking, outdoor photography and rock hounding. He particularly enjoys teaching principles of survival and wilderness medicine during our annual Winter Survival and Wilderness Medicine course, using skills learned during many of his crazy adventures.

Shannon Wiegand, MD
Family Medicine
Although originally from Montana, Shannon considers Alaska to be her home state. Her parents moved north when she was about 2 years old. They were teachers and taught in several small rural Alaskan villages until finally moving to Fairbanks when Shannon was in third grade. After completing her undergraduate work at Washington State University, Shannon attended the University of Washington School of Medicine. She stayed in Seattle to complete her residency at the Seattle Indian Health Board / Providence Hospital Residency Program before returning to Alaska to work at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. She moved back to Seattle for about five years where she worked as the Site Director for the residency program at the Seattle Indian Health Board. During that time she completed the University of Washington Faculty Development Fellowship. In 2003 she made the move back to her favorite state. Shannon has been with the residency program since that time. Shannon is very interested in cross cultural medicine and Native American/Alaska Native health care. She really enjoys the time during the Transcultural Medicine month to talk to residents about these issues. She has been a member of the Association of Indian Physicians since 1997 and is very committed to increasing diversity in the health care system.

Julie Wilson, MD
Family Medicine
Julie Wilson is originally from Indiana where she attended Indiana University School of Medicine. A love of the mountains and outdoors drew her to Alaska to do her residency at Alaska Family Medicine Residency. After graduation in 2001, she and her husband traveled to Nepal where she volunteered to work at a high altitude clinic in Pheriche run by the Himalayan Rescue Association. Upon return to Anchorage she worked at the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center and the Alaska Native Primary Care Center before returning to the residency as a faculty member. She has special interests in wilderness medicine as well as pediatrics. She and her husband love skiing, rafting, kayaking, backpacking, hiking, mountain running, and hope to instill the love of the outdoors in their children, as well.