The Lawrence Family Medicine Residency (LFMR), a proud part of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC), is pleased to announce its Class of 2023. The incoming residents represent a wealth of backgrounds and experiences, and hail from locations around the world – as close as Haverhill, Mass. and Nashua, N.H., and as far away as Vietnam and Pakistan.

“I couldn’t be more excited and proud to welcome this group of talented doctors to the health center,” said GLFHC President and CEO John M. Silva. “The incoming Class of 2023 is made up of the most outstanding individuals our hardworking residency recruiting team found around the country, and we look forward to furthering their education and commitment to the underserved.”

Though the residency program was able to expand its class size to 12 slots this year thanks to new state funding delivered through the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, the process of narrowing down the incoming class of residents is still a monumental task. This year, the recruting team received 746 applications from around the world – with 347 of those from US medical schools – and conducted full-day interviews with 124 applicants between October and December.

“This is our first class of 12 residents. We are able to train 20% more family physicians here in Lawrence thanks to new state funding focused on increasing the primary care workforce in Massachusetts, particularly in community health centers,” said Residency Director Dr. Wendy Barr. “Our success in recruiting such great new doctors shows that medical students desire this training. I am so proud that we are able to train more full spectrum family physicians for Lawrence and other underserved communities.”

Dr. Joseph Gravel, GLFHC’s chief medical officer and chair of family medicine, also expressed enthusiasm. “We’re all so proud of our residents, faculty, residency admin and Med admin staff, residency leadership, Haverhill Street staff, and everyone at GLFHC who supports our program so well, in so many different ways,” he said. “This is a spectacular result, bringing the best future family physicians to our health center and the Greater Lawrence community.”

The LFMR Class of 2023

Corinne Ainsworth
Birthplace: Fall River, MA
Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School

Kathleen “Katy” Anthony
Birthplace: Allentown, PA
Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Alaina Aristide
Birthplace: Oak Bluffs, MA
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Miguel Joaquin
Birthplace: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Medical School: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Denise Lobo
Birthplace: Karachi, Pakistan
Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine

Patrick O’Neil
Birthplace: Haverhill, MA
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine

Patrick Salemme
Birthplace: Jamestown, NY
Medical School: Jacobs School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo

Wesley “Alex” Spacht
Birthplace: Nashua, NH
Medical School: University of Chicago The Pritzker School of Medicine

Angela Sterling
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Medical School: University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Thu Tran
Birthplace: Ho Chi Minh City, VNM
Medical School: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Rebecca Weiner
Birthplace: West Orange, NJ
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Beverly Williams
Birthplace: Los Alamos, NM
Medical School: University of New Mexico School of Medicine