Hazel M. Bluestein, M.D.
is the Family Practice Program Director. She has been a faculty member of the Montgomery Family Practice Residency Program (MFPRP) for 21 years, and previously served as associate director since 1993. She completed her undergraduate work at Franklin and Marshall College and attended medical school at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from the MFPRP, she completed a Fellowship in Faculty Development at Temple University School of Medicine, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Practice and Community Medicine. As director of the Montgomery Family Practice Center, Dr. Bluestein has responsibility for practice management. Special areas of interest include women's health and office surgery. Dr. Bluestein has been recertified by the American Board of Family Practice and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fornance Physicians, the hospital’s 75-physician multi-specialty practice. Dr. Bluestein is also Chairman of the Department of Family Practice at Montgomery. Her avocations include horticulture and Ikebana.

Susanna G. Evans, M.D.
is a Family Practice/Obstetrics faculty member. She attended college at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and medical school at Pennsylvania State, in Hershey, Pa., Dr. Evans completed her residency training at Shasta-Cascade Family Practice Residency Program at the University of California, Davis. Following her residency she did a Fellowship in Obstetrics and rural family medicine in Tacoma, Washington. After completing her fellowship she worked full-time at a community health center in Tacoma Washington where she provided a full spectrum of family practice services.

Gina L. Rose, M.D.
graduated from Montgomery Family Practice Residency Program in June 2001. She was the first Fellow in the Hospitalist Fellowship Program at Montgomery. She graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in May 1998. Her academic honors include, the Dr. Joseph Nathan Grossman Prize in Family Medicine, Judy Shockman Memorial Fellowship in Lupus Research, Alumni Junior and Senior Scholarships. She was elected into the AlphaOmegaAlpha Honor Medical Society in 1998 and received the Mead Johnson Award for Graduate Education in Family Medicine in 2000. Dr. Rose has special interests in research and community education, office procedures and critical care medicine.

Robert A. Solomon, M.D.
is a Faculty Associate. He has practiced in a private practice setting for 9 years before joining the Montgomery Family Practice Residency Program in 2003. He completed his undergraduate training at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, his medical school training at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, and his residency training at DeWitt Army Community Hospital at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He served as an active duty Army physician for 7 1/2 years and is presently a member of the Army Reserves. He has special interests in office procedures, sports medicine, anxiety and depression evaluation and treatment, dermatology, and travel medicine. He is Medical Director of Montgomery Home Care and is also a member of the Fornance Physician Board of Directors.

Kenneth J. Landin, M.D.
joined us from the Wyoming Valley Family Practice Program in
Wilkes Barre, where he was responsible for curriculum development.  Orginally trained in Alberta, Canada, Dr. Landin worked as a private physician before deciding on a career in teaching. He completed his fellowship training at Michigan State University, and has special interests in critical care medicine and dermatology.  He is currently working on a principled approach to medical decision making, which he calls MOMS for Most Medically Significant. His personal interests include philosophy, playing the piano, and family activities.

Beverlee Ciccone, Ph.D.
psychologist, is a part-time member of the residency faculty involved in the Behavioral Science Curriculum and research. Dr. Ciccone is responsible for teaching, precepting and consulting with the residents in both the inpatient and outpatient settings utilizing the biopsychological model of healthcare. She facilitates Balint Seminars exploring the residency experience and the physician/patient/family relationships. Dr. Ciccone received her undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from Temple University combining programs in psychology and health education for a concentration in Health Behaviour. In addition, she trained at the Marriage Council of Philadelphia which was a division of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, leading to her certification in marital, family and sex therapy.

Nilesh Patel, M.D.
serves as a part-time outpatient preceptor at the Montgomery Family Practice Center. He has a private practice in nearby Audubon, Pa. He attended medical school at the University of Glasgow Medical School in Scotland, and completed his Family Practice Residency at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. Prior to his Family Practice training, he completed a surgical residency in London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Dr. Patel became certified by the American Board of Family Practice in July 1994.

Peter B. Edde, M.D.
completed his residency at Montgomery Family Practice in August 2004, having been the chief resident in his third year. He became a part-time faculty member of MFPRP immediately following graduation. He now serves as an outpatient preceptor. He  joined a private practice at nearby King Of Prussia Family Medicine. Dr. Edde completed his undergraduate studies, medical education and one year of Family Medicine training at the American University of Beirut in June 2001. He has special interest in office procedures, pediatrics, sports medicine, obesity and weight management.

Joan M. Grzybowski, D.O.
is the acting president of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society. At the Montgomery Family Practice Center Dr. Grzybowski has served as a part-time outpatient preceptor since 1997. She is a full-time Family Physician at Norriton Family Medicine. Her undergraduate training was completed at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Dr. Grzybowski has an Associate's Degree in Clinical Health Science from Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the first woman recipient of the Fred J. Solomon, D.O. Award in 1994 for clinical education. Her special interests include preventive medicine, office procedures, and patient education.

Maha(lakshmi) Srinivasan, MD
recently joined the residency as a full-time faculty after wroking as a part-time preceptor during her private practice in Fort Washington, PA. She attended medical school at Thanjavur Medical College in India.   She went on to complete an OB/GYN residency before coming to the US.  She completed her family practice residency at Montgomery Family Practice. Her special interests include the metabolic syndrome, preventative medicine, and Women's Health.