Clinical: Provide integrative medicine consultations; employ mind-body modalities and herbal   therapies in the care of patients, create integrative treatment plans and refer patients to appropriate  alternative practitioners 

Teaching: Direct fourth year medical student elective in integrative medicine

Clinical:  Provide private medical consultations, patient advocacy and healthcare navigation for  patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses; assist patients with complex medical decisions;  Provide guidance on integrating alternative therapies with conventional medical treatment plans 

Teaching:  Invited and community presentations: “Primary Care Physicians’ Role In The Care of  Cancer Patients”, “An Insider’s Guide To Navigating The Healthcare System”, “Helping A Friend,  Loved One Or Yourself Through Cancer”; Poster presentation: “The Four Stages of Coping with  Cancer” to be presented at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society February 2008 

Administrative:  Founder and President, Insight Medical Consultants 2006-present  

Media: Quoted as an expert in healthcare navigation and doctor-patient communication in multiple  media outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today; write health column for  examiner.com  

Teaching:  Provided education and support to non-physician patient advocates; lectures included  “Practical Stress Reduction”, “How to Help Someone Who is Dying”, and “Modern Diabetes Care” 

Administrative:  New program development 

Clinical: Practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine including office procedures; performed home visits and nursing home care; supervised midlevel practitioners and family medicine residents

Teaching: Voted best teacher 2002 and 2003; taught residents about Palliative Care topics

including: pain and symptom control, advance directives, and spiritual aspects of life- threatening illness; responsible for Practice Management curriculum; supervised resident research projects

Administrative: Served as resident advisor; planned faculty and staff performance improvement retreat; created and chaired Performance Improvement Committee

Research: "Primary Care Physician Knowledge of Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis" (published in Pediatrics)

Clinical: Practiced full spectrum Family Medicine including inpatient and outpatient medicine, ICU, nursing home, newborn nursery, home visits, supervision of midlevelpractitioners, provided guided imagery and progressive relaxation to patients

Administrative: Chairperson, Dept of Family Practice 1998-1999; Chairperson,Medical Review Committee 1999-2000; member, Medical Executive Committee1998-1999; interviewed new staff; conducted staff meetings; conducted Medicarecoding seminars; initiated multiple practice improvements including coumadin
program, lab tracking, and improved chart forms

Education

Studied fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, including pulse and tongue diagnosis and use  of Traditional Chinese Herbal formulae; 275 hours of study   

Studied medical statistics and research methods; precepted residents; instructed medical  students; practiced outpatient Family Medicine; published article in Primary Care Clinics  (“Mind-Body Therapies for Primary Care Physicians”)   

Practiced outpatient Family Medicine 

Practiced full spectrum Family Medicine; performed as Associate Hospice Medical Director  1994-1995; attended International African AIDS Conference (Uganda) December 1995;  instructed Ugandan medical students on Palliative Care topics; provided outpatient care and  home visits for Hospice Uganda; presented five formal Grand Rounds lectures 

Honors in Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurology; Class President 1989; president MCP chapter of  American Medical Women’s Association 1990 

Magna cum laude graduate; Phi Beta Kappa; Golden Key National Honor Society; Phi Sigma  Iota (National Foreign Language Honor Society); elected outstanding graduate in major 

Studied French language, civilization, and culture 

LICENSURE/ BOARD CERTIFICATION 

Maryland Medical License 2001 - present 
North Carolina Medical License 1997 - 2002 
Board Certification, American Board of Family Physicians 1996-2003 
Board Re-Certification, American Board of Family Physicians 2002-2009 
 

MEMBERSHIPS 

American Holistic Medical Association 
American Psychosocial Oncology Society 
American Academy of Family Physicians 
American Medical Association 
Med Chi (Maryland Medical Association)  

RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS 

Chiaramonte, D
The Family Physician’s Role in the Care of Cancer Patients 
Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, seminar to be presented October 2008     

Chiaramonte, D 
CareNotes: The Four Stages of Coping with Cancer 
Abbey Press Publications, for publication September, 2008   

Chiaramonte, D 
The Four Stages of Coping with Cancer: a targeted support strategy 
Poster presented at The American Psychosocial Oncology Society annual meeting, February 2008, Irvine, CA 

Chiaramonte D, Shearer S 
Contributor: Ambulatory Medicine… In A Page 
Topics: Depression, Alcoholism, Stress 
Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.  2008 
Eds: Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, Ronald Williams, MD 

Chiaramonte D 
Afterword in ‘Fixing American Healthcare’ by Richard Fogoros, M.D. 
Publlish or Perish, October 2007   

D Chiaramonte & CM Nether 
Embracing The Winter Blues, On Purpose Woman, Nov/Dec 2007   

Krugman S, Chiaramonte D, Matsui E 
Diagnosis and Management of Food-Induced Anaphylaxis: A National Survey of Pediatricians  
Pediatrics 2006 Sep; 118(3) e 554-60    

Chiaramonte DR 
Mind-Body Therapies for Primary Care Physicians 
Primary Care Clinics.  24(4): 787-807. 1997.   

Chiaramonte DR 
How to twist a patient into anxious knots 
Medical Economics 1996 November; 73(22) 147-148    

Lazar, J, Chiaramonte, D: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 
Relaxation techniques: teaching residents to teach patients. 
Presented at Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference 1995    

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