AHEC Connect
Family Medicine
Rhett L.R. Brown, MD
Rhett Brown, MD graduated from Davidson College with a degree in economics, and after graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina, completed his residency in family medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. After opening his own practice with a partner in 1992 and later merging with a multi-specialty clinic, he joined the faculty as medical director in 2002 after 10 years of private practice experience. He has interests in practice management, chronic disease management with emphasis on diabetes, heart failure, asthma and HIV. Rhett Brown, MD is active on several community service boards and enjoys bicycling, reading and tennis.
Dennis Darcey, MD, MSPH
Dennis Darcey, MD, MSPH currently works as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Darcey earned his medical degree, master’s of science in public health, and master’s of public health from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical Center and also served as a resident in Occupational Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center. His areas of research interest include epidemiology of Alzheimers disease in Cache County Utah via a NIH grant. Through funds provided by the NC Department of Environmental, Health and Natural Resources he has also researched the evaluation of health complains from community residents exposed to TDI and methylene chloride emissions released from a polyurethane foam manufacturing plants in North Carolina.
Ricky Langley, MD, MPH
Ricky Langley, MD, MPH currently works as a public health physician for the NC Department of Health and Human Services in the Division of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch. In addition to holding a medical degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, he also received his master’s of public health from the University of NC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill in the field of Environmental Sciences.
He currently serves as a member of the North Carolina Medical Society, American college of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, American College of Physicians, Safety and Health Task Force for the NC Departmental Labor, and the Editorial Board for the NC Medical Journal. He also served as the former chairman for the Environmental Health Committee for the NC Medical Society. His most recent publications have focused on infectious disease occurrence in forestry workers as well as farm toxicology.
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD attended the University of Texas in Austin where he received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. He then went on to get a PhD at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston where he studied basic mechanisms of learning and memory. He continued on to get his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and then came to Charlotte where he completed his residency in Family Medicine.
After residency, Dr. Dulin worked in private practice for three years at Harrisburg Family Physicians where he precepted medical students and worked with the UNCC nurse practitioner program. He then returned to the Charlotte residency program where he currently serves as the Director of Research and Evidence-Based Medicine. He has a strong interest in primary care oriented research and has developed Charlotte's first practice-based research network which is actively studying issues related to healthcare access and quality.
Mary N. Hall, MD
Mary Hall, MD is a New York native where she grew up on Long Island. She attended college at SUNY Binghamton in upstate New York and medical school at Cornell University Medical College. She moved south to experience a different part of the country for residency, met her husband and never returned north. After completing residency and fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Dr. Hall joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center as the medical student director. Since 1987, she has enjoyed several roles in the department including Medical Director of the FPC and Residency Director, before becoming Chair in 2003. Dr. Hall has a special interest in women's healthcare and the doctor patient relationship. She is involved nationally in work with the American Balint Society. Dr. Hall and her family physician husband, David Hall, have two wonderful teenage children, Katherine and Andrew. They all enjoy traveling, church activities and reading great books.
Vanessa McPherson, MD
Vanessa McPherson, MD grew up in a family of nine in Hickory, N.C. She received her undergraduate education at UNC-Charlotte, and attended medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. After completing her residency training at the University of South Carolina, she practiced in a small group practice in Belmont, N.C., for several years where she served as a community preceptor for medical students and a guest preceptor at the residency's family practice center.
She joined the faculty of Carolinas Medical Center's Department of Family Medicine in 2000 as the associate director of the rural program in Monroe, N.C., and completed UNC's faculty development fellowship in 2002. She began her current role as Residency Director of our program in 2003, and completed the National Institute for Program Director Development in 2006.
Her interests include performing and teaching procedures, women's health, inpatient medicine, information technology and assisting residents in their professional development using feedback and self-reflection. She and her husband, Kevin, are proud parents of Carson. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, trying new restaurants and staying active.
David Price, MD
A native of Atlanta, GA, David Price, MD completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia before returning to Georgia to attend medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. His internship and residency were completed at Carolinas Medical Center. He then completed a sports medicine fellowship in St. Petersburg, Fla. David Price, MD then traveled around Australia doing locum tenems work before rejoining the Department of Family Medicine as faculty in 2003. In 2005, he became Associate Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship which was started that year. David Price, MD has a special interest in concussion and is one of the medical directors of the Carolinas Concussion Network (CCN), a comprehensive clinical and research oriented physician network through Carolinas Medical Center. He also enjoys endurance sports and participates in marathons and triathlons. His other interests include singing and jamming on his acoustic guitar, listening to music, reading, and traveling. Dr. Price and his wife, Ali, are the parents of two young sons.
Jessica Saxe, MD
A family physician at CMC Biddle Point, Jessica Schorr Saxe, MD has been working with the underserved in Charlotte, NC, since 1980. She is the former Medical Director of Prevention and Community Wellness for Carolinas HealthCare System and former chair of the NCAFP Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Council. Dr. Saxe serves on the NCAFP Health of the Public Council and the NCMS Family and Public Health Committee. She holds appointments as Assistant Clinical Professor at Duke University School of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Dr. Saxe, an occasional columnist for the Charlotte Observer, writes on the importance of prevention and primary care and other compelling topics, of which her favorite is her own children. Active in the community, she has won many awards including NCAFP Community Faculty Teachers of Students Award in 1992 and YWCA Woman of Achievement in 2001.
Dr. Saxe received a BA from Oberlin College 1972, MD Tufts University 1977, and finished the Duke Watts Family Medicine Program in 1980.