One-on-one patient-centered care
Family physicians provide patient-centered comprehensive and continuous primary health care to individuals and families regardless of age or disease. While other areas of medicine focus on particular body systems or diseases, family physicians specialize in one-on-one patient-centered care—getting to know a patient’s health, history, family background and lifestyle. This intimate understanding helps family physicians provide their patients with high quality care tailored to their needs, beliefs and preferences to encourage healthier, more satisfying lives.
Family Medicine Services
Our family medicine services include:
- Physical examinations and wellness care for men, women and children
- Pre-employment, school, sports and camp physicals
- Complete child care, from infancy through adolescence
- General and chronic care for the elderly
- Care for sports-related injuries
- Comprehensive services for women
- Treatment of minor injuries
- Preventive diagnostic screenings such as cholesterol levels
- Acute illness treatment for colds, sore throat, fever, flu and more
- Treatment of chronic diseases
- Minor surgery, such as suturing, biopsies and removal of skin lesions and moles
- Individual, marital and family counseling
- Psychological services
- Immunizations for travel
Mental and Behavioral Health
In the Department of Family Medicine, our behavioral health specialists play a very important role as members of the multidisciplinary care team. These individuals are available for scheduled counseling sessions and may sometimes be called upon to provide instant, integrated support as part of any visit with your primary care provider (PCP). Additionally, our behavioral health specialists can assist with accessing various resources within The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center or community that may aid in our patients’ quest for optimal health and wellness.
Since behavioral health plays such an important role in patients’ ability to manage chronic disease (i.e. diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, etc.), it is critical to have adequate access to these healthcare professionals. Imbedding these individuals in the place where you receive your primary care not only enables better access to these services but allows the specialists to collaborate directly with your PCP to make the best decisions possible regarding your care.
Our behavioral health specialists are:
Laurie Greco, PhD
Nicole Hollingshead, PhD
Risa Long, PhD
Scott Olenick, PhD
Joan Simon, PhD
Maria Williams Alexander, PsyD
David Klemanski, PsyD, MPH
Katrina Kilburn, LISW
Kellie Brinkman, LISW
Heather Lauderback, LISW
Occupational Medicine
Our occupational medicine services include:
- Employment exams
- Workers compensation/injury care and follow-up
- Rehabilitation services (physical therapy/occupational therapy)
- Case management services for injuries
- Department of Transportation (DOT) exams
- OSHA-required exams (respirator, lead/heavy metals, asbestos, etc.)
- FAA medical exams (class I, II and III)
- Independent medical exams (IMEs)
- Immigration physicals
- Sports/school physicals
Robin Berner, MD
Maryann Wynd, MD
Community Partnerships
Asian Health Initiative
This free clinic is located within OSU Family Medicine at Thomas Rardin. The clinic provides care one half day per week for non-English-speaking patients, primarily the indigent population. The Ohio State University Department of Family Medicine jointly sponsors this program with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, the James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, the Family Medicine Foundation, the Coalition for Asian American Health, the Asian American Community Services, the Asian American Community Service Council and the Southeast Asian United Methodist Ministries of Central Ohio.
Columbus Free Clinic
This free clinic is run by medical, pharmacy and social work graduate students from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and supervised by volunteer physicians in the community. Primary care providers see patients for long-term care and urgent care needs every Thursday evening at Family Medicine Thomas Rardin. The medical students at the Columbus Free Clinic received a Caring for the Community grant for student-initiated programs by the Association of American Medical Colleges in collaboration with the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.
La Clinica Latina
The OSU Family Medicine at Thomas Rardin houses the Latino free clinic, which provides care two half days per month for Spanish-speaking patients, primarily the indigent population. Created in December 2000, La Clinica Latina is a jointly sponsored program among The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, the Latino Health Alliance and Saint Vincent’s Family Services.
Noor Free Clinic
The Noor Free Clinic is staffed by Muslim physicians and nurses from the central Ohio community. The Columbus Noor Community Clinic is a partnership with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University Primary Care Network, the Arthur James Cancer Hospital and Richard Solove Research Institution and the Muslim Clinic of Ohio (MCO) Columbus chapter. Medical students are encouraged to participate.