Mark E. Deutchman, MD, is director of the Rural Track.
He is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Deutchman earned his medical degree from Ohio State University , where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Landacre Society for Student Research.
Dr. Deutchman is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
After completing his Family Medicine residency in Spokane, Washington in 1978, he spent 12 years practicing in White Salmon, Washington, a rural town in Southwest Washington State . During that time, his practice included the full range of primary care including care of adults, children, obstetrics and surgery. He also served as Managing Partner for an 8-provider clinic, Emergency Medical Services coordinator for the county, ambulance service physician advisor and volunteer fire fighter.
In 1990, he took a teaching position at the University of Tennessee , Memphis where he developed and directed a Rural/OB fellowship.
In 1995, Dr. Deutchman joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Denver Anschulz Medical Campus, Department of Family Medicine. Here he has practiced the full range of Family Medicine and taught residents and students. He has directed an OB fellowship in Denver and currently divides his time about evenly between hospital attending physician duties at the Anschutz Inpatient Pavillion and School of Medicine teaching and administrative activities.
A member of many professional organizations, Dr. Deutchman belongs to the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, of which he is a senior member. He has published several articles and book chapters and has contributed to multimedia CD-ROMs. He was awarded Teacher of the Year by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians in 1999, and the Exemplary Teaching Award for Full-Time Faculty by the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2000.
Jack Westfall, MD, MPH grew up in rural Colorado. He practices Family Medicine part-time in a community health center in Limon, Colorado. He is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Dean of Rural Health for the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Westfall is the founder and Director of the High Plains Research Network (HPRN), an integrated research network of 11 rural and frontier hospitals, ambulatory clinics, nursing homes, and the clinicians working in those institutions. Dr. Westfall works to build bridges between rural communities and the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus.
