Orangeville, ON, November 9, 2009 – Dr. Stephen Milone and Dr. Stephanie Milone have been selected to receive this year's 2009 Community Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Ontario College of Family Physicians for their outstanding contribution to preceptoring medical students. The Milone's are one of two family physician couples in the province who will receive this prestigious award at an official ceremony November 26, 2009 at the Hilton Toronto Hotel.

“Dr. Stephen Milone and Dr. Stephanie Milone are outstanding examples of community teachers,” says Dr. Jeff McKinnon, Chief of Staff at Headwaters Health Care Centre. “Having community family medicine preceptors as role models for residents is critical to helping us attract and retain family physicians. The Milone’s had the opportunity to practice in a community family medicine setting as interns and based on their positive experience they chose Dufferin as the location for their family practice. Now they are paying it forward by working with medical students to share the experiences they enjoyed.

After working as interns at Headwaters Health Care Centre the Milone’s decided Orangeville was the community for them. “We chose to relocate to a community in need of family physicians that would also allow us to be close to our extended families,” says Dr. Stephen Milone. 

Dr. Stephen Milone and Dr. Stephanie Milone graduated from medical school at the University of Toronto in 2002 and completed their postgraduate Family Medicine Residency at the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University. In 2006, they established their family practice at the Highlands Health Clinic in Orangeville with privileges at Headwaters Health Care Centre where he works in Anaesthesia and she works in the Emergency Department.

The Milone’s are passionate about preceptoring rural medical students and have been published for their work advocating preventative medicine. In 2006 they developed a health examination checklist for family doctors and were published in the Canadian Journal of CME (Continuing Medical Education).

“We’ve enjoyed being preceptors to medical students for the past 3 years and working with the Rural Ontario Medicine Program and the University of Toronto Core Family Medicine rural residency program,” says Dr. Stephanie Milone.

Dr. Stephen Milone and Dr. Stephanie Milone live in Dufferin with their two children and are expecting their third child in December 2009. They enjoy physical fitness, the outdoors and are actively involved in the community. An avid runner, Dr. Stephen Milone was selected to carry the Olympic torch this year on part of its journey across Canada as it makes its way from Athens to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

About Headwaters Health Care Centre
Headwaters Health Care Centre serves more than 110,000 residents in Caledon, Orangeville, Shelburne and Dufferin County. The hospital operates two sites – Headwaters Orangeville, a 108 bed acute care hospital and Headwaters Shelburne, a 33 bed chronic care hospital. Visit www.headwatershealth.ca.

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