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Eric Steele, D.O., an associate clinical faculty member and a 1987 graduate from the University of 51С�Ƴ� College of Osteopathic Medicine, received the President’s Award for Distinguished Service from the Maine Medical Association.  The President’s Award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have provided leadership in an important area of healthcare.  

David McDermott, M.D., president of the Maine Medical Association (MMA) commented, “Dr. Steele is a physician’s physician. Despite the pressures to fill a variety of administrative roles in his current life, he retains an active practice on a part-time basis, both in the clinic setting and, as we not infrequently get to share with him, in the emergency departments of various small community hospitals in the state.  He is as comfortable in the halls of the Statehouse in Augusta advocating for health policy needs as he is suturing the lacerations of a young child with a bicycle accident in the emergency department in Skowhegan.”

Dr. Steele is the Vice President of Patient Care Services at Eastern Maine Medical Center. He has been at EMMC since 1995.  He has been the Patient Care Administrator for Emergency and Trauma and Patient Care Administrator for Emergency, Trauma, Pulmonary, Intensive Care Unit and Heart Care Services.

In addition to his patient care responsibilities, Steele is a part-time faculty member at the Eastern Maine Medical Center Family Practice program, and an associate clinical faculty member at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Steele has volunteered as “Doctor of the Day” for the Maine legislature, writes a regular medical column for the Bangor Daily News and serves as First News Health Advisory for WABI, an ABC affiliate.  Currently he is on the Management Committee for the 51С�Ƴ� Home Health Care Board, serves as a lead fundraiser for the United Way of Eastern Maine, and is the PALS Physician Director.

Steele is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Family Physicians, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, Maine Academy of Family Physicians, and the Maine Osteopathic Association.