Dr Ronald Vallario is now seeing patients at Grace Cottage Family Health. A native of New Jersey, Dr Vallario is a graduate of Rutgers University, University of South Carolina, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; he completed his family medicine residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. Before joining Grace Cottage, he was Associate Medical Director/Geriatrician at Summit Eldercare/Fallon Health in Worcester, MA and, prior to that, he was the Medical Director and a primary care physician at Mountain Valley Medical Clinic in Londonderry, VT, and an Emergency Department physician at Brattleboro Memorial.
Dr Ted Lefer is now accepting new patients at Grace Cottage Family Health. For the past three years, he has been a family medicine physician in Talent, Oregon. A native of New York City, Dr Lefer graduated from Vassar College in 1998 and received his Medical Doctor degree from American University of the Caribbean. He completed his family medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 2015. One of Dr Lefer’s specific areas of interest is in helping patients of all ages to overcome obesity and learn to practice healthy lifestyles with confidence. “I realize that poor health habits are not just the result of lack of willpower,” he said. “Factors such as knowledge, environment, and mental health issues all come into play with a patient’s overall health and fitness. Instead of just chasing the problem, I like to build relationships and address underlying causes.”