COM Dean Jane Carreiro wins prestigious award from Maine Osteopathic Association
Jane Carreiro, D.O., vice president of Health Affairs and dean of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE COM), was recently honored with the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Maine Osteopathic Association (MOA).
Carreiro was honored at the MOA’s convention in Rockport on June 12. The event — the organization’s first live event in over a year — recognized the outstanding contributions of osteopathic physicians in Maine for the years 2020 and 2021.
The Distinguished Service Award is the MOA’s highest honor. It is presented to a D.O. who has made an immediate, significant contribution to the osteopathic profession through a major endeavor for the good of the profession and society, and who has made a major impact on the osteopathic profession and society over the course of their career.
Among other achievements, Carreiro was recognized for her exemplary leadership in steering the College of Osteopathic Medicine through the tides of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A tenured professor at UNE COM, Carreiro’s clinical practice focuses on pediatric osteopathic manipulative medicine and the non-pharmaceutical management of pain and other neuromusculoskeletal disorders in children. She has been published in many notable research journals, authored several clinical texts, and received numerous awards for teaching and service, including the 2015 Andrew Taylor Still Medallion of Honor.
Nationally, Carreiro has served as the director of Graduate and Continuing Medical Education and chair of the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She is a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic International Alliance and past-president of the American Academy of Osteopathy. She served on the Osteopathic Recognition Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and as an expert advisor on training and practice guidelines for the World Health Organization.
“It is for her truly lifetime commitment and exemplary leadership within the osteopathic community that Carreiro was chosen for the MOA’s Distinguished Service Award,” the association said in a statement.
Carreiro said the award was “completely unexpected.”
“I am very honored and grateful to my colleagues for this recognition,” she remarked.
The Maine Osteopathic Association is a professional organization representing approximately 1,000 osteopathic physicians as well as residents and students living and working in Maine and beyond. The organization’s mission is to serve the osteopathic profession of the State of Maine through a coordinated effort of professional education, advocacy, and member services in order to ensure the availability of quality osteopathic health care to the people of Maine.
Additionally, three UNE COM students — Laura Knapik (D.O., ’22), Margaret Calamari (D.O., ’23), and Rachel Hampton (D.O., ’24) — won the 2020 Osteopathic Champion Award for their leadership in the “Maine COVID sitters” program, an independent group of health professions students who provided child care, pet care, and household services to health care families in the Greater Portland area during the COVID-19 pandemic.
