Bob is a Doctor Emeritus, retired Palliative Care Physician at Northern Light, Eastern
Maine Medical Center, previously a general and thoracic surgeon. He received a Masters
of Divinity degree from Bangor Theological Seminary in 2007.
He is also founder of Partners in Health of Maine which has concentrated its efforts on
the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. In 2006 he received Nicaraguan’s “Orden Reuben
Dario,” Humanitarian Award. In 2014 he received the International Humanitarian Award
at the ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco. In 2015 he received both the Mary
Cushman, M. D. Humanitarian Award from the Maine Medical Association, and the Maine
Hospice Council Humanitarian Award.