The Lincoln County Healthcare Board of Trustees welcomed three new members to its board this fall.

General internist Aquilino Alamo of Boothbay, is a member of Lincoln Medical Partners and has practiced in Boothbay Harbor since 2003.  Medical Director for St. Andrews Village and the Gregory Wing Nursing Facility, Dr. Alamo is also the Physician Site Leader for the Family Care Center, Lincoln Medical Partner’s multi-specialty practice in Boothbay Harbor.

Alamo is well known in the community and recently raced (on foot) a schooner from Rockland to Boothbay Harbor as part of Windjammer Days. Alamo won the 40-mile race.

David Lawrence is the Principal of the Lawrence Group, which provides senior philanthropic advisory services. Clients include Harvard Medical School, the Sick Kids Foundation of the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, the Lahey Clinic, Jackson Laboratory and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science.

Lawrence, of Newcastle, is a member of the Unnamed Society (Chief Development Officers of the 25 leading academic medical centers), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Associations, Experimental Aircraft Association, Naval Reserve Association and he also chairs the Newcastle Economic Development Committee. He served 23 years of active and reserve service in the U.S. Navy and retired with the rank of Captain.

Dr. John Murray, is an emergency physician who joined Lincoln Medical Partners in February of 2011. Murray served as the Chief of Emergency Medicine at a large tertiary care hospital in Hawaii that is part of the Kaiser Health System. There, Murray was a leader in the implementation of an electronic medical record system by Epic, which is also the provider of Lincoln County Healthcare’s new electronic medical record system.

Prior to joining Lincoln Medical Partners, Murray led system improvement work for the University of Pittsburgh at Hamad Medical Center in Doha, Qatar. Currently, Murray serves as Lincoln County Healthcare’s Physician Champion for the inpatient Epic electronic medical record system effort.

“Our new board members bring unique perspectives as well as professional skills and experience that are very relevant to the challenges confronting small rural health care systems like Lincoln County Healthcare,”  LCH President Jim Donovan said.  “I’m grateful for the time and talent the entire board gives each year to the task of caring for their community,” he said.  

The board had one outstanding vacancy and two members, Jim Hunt and Dr. Alan Barker, recently left the board.