Thursday, May 29, 2008
Dr. John McCarthy has accepted the position of WWAMI Assistant Dean for Clinical Phase/Central & Eastern Washington effective April 16, 2008. He will be based in the Spokane WWAMI office and will work with Dr. Deborah Harper to further the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine mission and goals in Central and Eastern Washington. He will work half-time for the UW while continuing to work as a family medicine physician for Group Health.
He and Harper are committed to increasing access to quality medical care for all people in our region, both urban and rural, and to increasing the number of doctors trained in the Inland Northwest while maintaining the high quality of education for which the UW School of Medicine is noted.
McCarthy attended Gonzaga University and then earned his M.D. degree from the UW School of Medicine. He was a resident at the Tacoma Family Medicine Residency Program. Following his residency, he spent 14 years in Tonasket,Wash., practicing as a full-spectrum rural family physician.
McCarthy has held a faculty appointment in the UW Department of Family Medicine since 1995. He has significant experience with residents and medical students. He serves on the medical school's Admissions Committee and is the president-elect for the Washington Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP). He has served as chair of the Rural Health Committee for the WAFP and is serving as the Public Health Officer for Okanogan County in Washington state.
McCarthy and his wife, Kate McCarthy, have two pre-teen children. He is an avid bicyclist and is a volunteer board member for the Spokane Nordic Ski Education Foundation (SNSEF).