MARQUETTE – Six new residents joined the UPHS – Marquette, Family Medicine Residency Program on July 1. The accredited program trains resident physicians for three years in a community-based setting, incorporating inpatient and outpatient medicine experiences as well as rotations in rural areas within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

“We have a great group of new residents this year,” said Program Director, Brian Waite, MD. “We’re all looking forward to working with them for the next three years and can’t wait to get started.”

Residents across the country are matched into residency programs through the National Resident Matching Program, which uses a mathematical algorithm to place applicants into residency and fellowship positions based on mutual rankings.

The six new Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program residents include:

Cecil Brown, MD

American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine.

Zachary Greenlee, MD

St. George’s University School of Medicine

Gabrielle McGrath, MD

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Erin McKenzie, MD

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, UP Campus

Sarah Naracon, MD

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, UP Campus

Russell Reeves, MD

University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine

To learn more about the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program, please visit www.uphealthsystem. com/marquette/family-medicine-residency

About the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program

The UP-Health System-Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program works in conjunction with the MSU College of Human Medicine Upper Peninsula Education Corporation to coordinate the training of family medicine residents and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine medical students. Since its inception in 1974, 222 resident physicians and 330 medical students have graduated from the two programs with approximately 39 percent of family medicine resident graduates and 30% of the students who graduated from MSU College of Human Medicine UPEC, practicing across the U.P.