{"id":1700,"date":"2013-09-19T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2013-09-19T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:26:23","slug":"dora-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/dora-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 79: Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the University of New England Dr. Dora Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a079
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0September 14
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr. Dora Mills
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Dora Mills is the Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the University of New England<\/a>\u00a0(UNE).\u00a0 Mills\u00a0is a Maine native who was raised in Farmington, and graduated from Mount Blue High School.\u00a0 While attending Bowdoin College, a professor\u00a0spoke with\u00a0her about perhaps starting a career in medicine.\u00a0 This led Mills to go on and receive her M.D. degree from University of Vermont College of Medicine, and her Master of Public Health from Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) was joined in the studio by Vice President of Clinical Affaris at the University of New England Dr. Dora Mills (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

From 1996-2011, Mills was the Director for Public Health for the State of Maine. \u00a0Mills also served as the director of the Maine CDC, as well as the State’s Health Officer.\u00a0 A pediatrician by training, Mills served as director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for 15 years under Governors Angus King and John Baldacci.\u00a0 She is widely recognized for her public health accomplishments, including reducing Maine\u2019s rate of tobacco use, teen pregnancy and childhood obesity.\u00a0 As Maine\u2019s CDC director, she established numerous statewide partnerships with hospitals, agencies and schools, including Healthy Maine Partnerships, which provides public health programs on a local level. \u00a0Mills left the Maine CDC in December 2010, shortly after the election of Gov. Paul LePage and the new Republican Legislature, citing the need for a change.<\/p>\n

In 2007, the American Medical Association recognized her work in improving Maine\u2019s public health system, awarding her the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service.<\/p>\n

Mills is a board-certified pediatrician who practiced as a hospitalist in Los Angeles.\u00a0\u00a0 Mills told Stevoe about her five years spent in L.A. and how she missed Maine and knew she couldn’t put roots down in California.\u00a0 Mills moved back to Maine and had a pediatric practice in her hometown of Farmington.\u00a0 She also practiced medicine in several rural international locations, including Tanzania and Nepal.\u00a0 Mills described for Stevoe her time spent\u00a0working in a Mennonite Hospital in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

In September 2011, Mills became the Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the University of New England (UNE).\u00a0 Being the leading educator of health care professionals in Maine, UNE has a commitment to a patient-centered approach. With Dr. Mills\u2019 leadership, UNE is prepared to develop clinical education sites that will inform best practices throughout the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the University of New England, Dr. Dora Mills sat down with TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods to discuss her career in public health and education. As the youngest of five children, most of whom are involved in public service, Mills learned at a young age that she wanted to help the underdog and ensure that everyone had the same as everyone else. Mills and Stevoe also discussed the importance of getting your flu vaccine and Mills described a way to not have the flu shot hurt. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}