Healthy Communities of the Capital Area welcomes new board members
GARDINER — Healthy Communities of the Capital Area has announced that Dr. Salam Al-Omaishi, Patrica Clark, Sara Grant and Colin Webb are joining its Board of Directors.
Al-Omaishi is a PGY-1 Family Medicine Resident at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from the College of New Jersey and graduate degrees in engineering management from Duke University and biomedical engineering from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has a particular interest in working with the refugee population and partners with nonprofit on tobacco prevention education in collaboration with the Capital Area New Mainers Project.
Clark is the director of Early Childhood Studies and a professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, specializing in teaching teachers and social work majors in early childhood, special needs, and family courses. Her education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and journalism, Bachelor of Science degree in education, Master of Science degree in special education, and higher degrees in early intervention and special education and public policy. She connected with nonprofit by borrowing and using the Let’s Go! Story Walk at various sites in Readfield, and by having the nonprofit’s Nan Bell as a guest speaker for her UMA students.