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The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education names Dr. Gill program director for Regional Family Medicine Residency
Dr. Stephanie A. Gill
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Regional Family Medicine Residency has named Dr. Stephanie A. Gill as the program director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited program.
A board-certified family medicine physician, Gill is a Shickshinny native and a graduate of Northwest Area High School. She has been serving as a physician faculty member and associate program director for the residency program since 2022. She provides primary care for adults and children of all ages at The Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre Practice.
As program director, Gill provides administrative and clinical oversight of the education program that trains and educates the next generation of physicians and collaboratively provides preventive and primary health services at The Wright Center for Community Health’s network of primary care practices in Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wayne counties.
Prior to The Wright Center, Gill was an attending physician at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and an assistant professor at Penn State College of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She also saw patients at the Penn State Medical Group Camp Hill.
A Penn State University graduate, Gill received her Doctor of Medicine from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She completed her residency in family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s St. Margaret Hospital. At the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Gill completed a fellowship in faculty development, where she also earned a multidisciplinary master’s degree in public health.
Gill is a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians, American Association of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Family Medicine Education Consortium. She is on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health, the chairperson of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Oral Health Collaborative, and a steering committee member of Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum.
The Wright Center is one of the largest U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education consortiums in the nation. It offers residencies in four disciplines – family medicine, internal medicine, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and psychiatry – as well as fellowships in cardiovascular disease, gastroenterology, and geriatrics. All of its programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Visit TheWrightCenter.org to learn more about how The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s physician workforce pipeline is educating and training the next generation of physicians and interprofessional providers.
