Tacoma Family Medicine

Frederick C. Stone, MD

I grew up in Torrance, CA and received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from UCLA (Go Bruins!).  I subsequently earned my Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, concentration on Health Services Organizations, Health Economics and Rural Populations.  Before starting medical school, I spent a year in the Epidemiology Research Unit of the SPH.  I then relocated to the Washington, DC area for medical school, graduating from Georgetown University(Hoya Saxa!).  Residency was at the University of Missouri-Columbia (Go Tigers!), where I served as one of the chief residents my senior year.  I spent three years at the Kingsport residency  (East Tennessee State University) as a faculty member, then it was back to the University of Missouri.  Since September 2005 I have been with the Phoenix Baptist Hospital Family Practice Residency Program and am pleased this year to have been selected as one of the Rural Fellows for Tacoma Family Medicine.  It is a great opportunity for furthering OB knowledge and skills, getting further superb training in other procedures relevant to family practice, learning more about TFM's successes in rural medicine.  I plan to take my fellowship experiences back to Phoenix Baptist Hospital and work further on strategies for helping to meet health care needs of rural Arizona.  My wife Terri is a nurse practitioner on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at The Mayo Hospital in Phoenix and holding down the fort at home with the six dogs and three cats during this year of fellowship.

Mary Gabriele, MD

Medicine was a second career for me.  Previously, I was a legal secretary raising my two children on my own.  At the age of 35, while complaining to someone who was living with HIV/AIDS that I could not be a doctor because I did not have the resources to achieve that goal, he replied adamantly that I did not have a life threatening disease and the only one stopping me from being a physician was me. He was right.  That year I went back to get my undergraduate degree at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA.  Following that, I applied and went to medical school at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA (formerly MCP/Hahnemann).  From there, I completed my residency in Family Medicine at Bryn Mawr Family Practice.  In the early 1990s I lived in the NW and have contemplated returning here and setting up a rural practice in Oregon.  I realized that my training in obstetrics was not very extensive.  One way to achieve my dream of returning to the NW would be to do a Rural Family Medicine Fellowship in Tacoma, WA.  With beautiful Mt. Rainier in the background, I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity.  I am eager to have more hands on skills and enhance my medical practice.  Aside from Medicine, I am very interested in organic gardening, hiking and alternative medicine.  I am also a closet thesbian who would at some point love to be involved in acting and the theater again.  

Katrina Erickson, MD

Angie Reynolds, MD