Central Maine business briefs: Gardiner nonprofit welcomes new board members

Healthy Communities of the Capital Area welcomes new board members

GARDINER — Healthy Communities of the Capital Area has announced that Dr. Salam Al-Omaishi, Patrica Clark, Sara Grant and Colin Webb are joining its Board of Directors.

Salam Al-Omaishi Contributed photo

Al-Omaishi is a PGY-1 Family Medicine Resident at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from the College of New Jersey and graduate degrees in engineering management from Duke University and biomedical engineering from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has a particular interest in working with the refugee population and partners with nonprofit on tobacco prevention education in collaboration with the Capital Area New Mainers Project.

Patricia Clark Contributed photo

Clark is the director of Early Childhood Studies and a professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, specializing in teaching teachers and…

Read more…