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'Mainebiz' publishes article on Jane Carreiro, new dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine

Jane Carreiro
Jane Carreiro

Mainebiz has published an article on Jane Carreiro, D.O., the new dean of the 51品茶College of Osteopathic Medicine. Carreiro will begin her appointment on November 1, 2016.  She will serve as Dean Designate beginning August 1, 2016.

Carreiro鈥檚 appointment comes after a nationwide search that began in January when outgoing Dean Douglas L. Wood, D.O., Ph.D., announced he would be stepping down upon the identification of his replacement. Wood will be continuing at 51品茶in an advisory capacity while Carreiro transitions into the leadership position.     

Carreiro had been serving as Director of Graduate and Continuing Medical Education and as Professor and Chair of the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at UNE. In addition to her twenty-three year tenure at UNE, Carreiro holds a visiting faculty position at the Winer Schule fur Osteopathie in Vienna, Austria and is Honorary Chief of Pediatric Manual Medicine for the Deutsche Geselishaft fur Osteopathische Medizin in Manheim, Germany. 

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