BLUEWATER EMERGENCY PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Medical Director - Springfield Hospital Emergency Department / Member of the Board
Dr. Doug Nilson moved up to Maine after completing a residency in Emergency Medicine at Brown University in 2009. He worked in the ER at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford for 9 years which lead to him joining BlueWater Health. His medical interests include ultrasound, wilderness medicine, and EMS.
When not working, Dr. Nilson spends time with his four best friends - wife Rachel, and their three children Eli, Jonah and Zoe. Doug and his family love spending time outside hiking, exploring, fishing, boating, and skiing.
Job Titles:
- Chief Medical Officer
- Member of the Board
- Chief Medical Officer / Chief Development Officer / Member of the Board
Dr. Nuki is the Chief Medical Officer of BlueWater Health. After graduating from his Family Medicine Residency in Ventura, CA he practiced both Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine for 6 years in rural Washington state. Dr. Nuki's clinical experience has been focused on emergency medicine since 2004, also including outpatient primary care, high risk obstetrics and hospitalist medicine. During Dr. Nuki's time as faculty at the Central Maine Medical Center's Family Medicine Residency he established an educational program for the Himalayan Health Exchange. He later led teams of medical students, residents, and physicians through remote Himalayan regions of India. He has lectured for the Global Health Education Consortium and has volunteered for Health Volunteers Oversees in Bhutan. Dr. Nuki was the founding director of the MaineGeneral Emergency Medicine Fellowship. He has served as the Chair of the Workforce Section for the American College of Emergency Physicians and works as an Emergency Physician across Maine including work as the Chief Medical Officer for Calais Regional Hospital.
Ian is the Chief Operating Officer of BlueWater Health. Ian began his career supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) in San Diego as a technical engineer and program manager. He eventually transitioned into program and project management within the healthcare industry in Central Oregon, which ultimately led to an executive leadership role within the regional health system's Medical Group. Ian has spent the past 10+ years leading medical group practices within community based and regional health care system environments, in both the acute and ambulatory settings. He's excited to be living in his wife's home state of Maine with their four children, exploring all of what northern New England has to offer.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer / Member of the Board
Dr. Mullen is a past President of the Medical Staff at Mid Coast Hospital as well as the Chief of Emergency Services. He successfully combined his love of medicine and the wilderness through relief work in Peru, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Outside of medicine, Jay is blessed with a wonderful wife and two sons, who join him in skiing, kayaking, boating, biking and hiking around our great state.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Medical Director - Nantucket Cottage Hospital Emergency Department / Member of the Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Medical Director - Mid Coast Hospital Emergency Department / President, Medical Staff - Mid Coast Parkview Health / Member of the Board
Job Titles:
- Medical Director - Urgent Care / Walk - in - Clinics / Director - PA / NP Acute Care Fellowship
Job Titles:
- Medical Director - Houlton Regional Hospital Emergency Department / Immediate past President Maine ACEP
Dr. Dancoes is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine and his first career was as a music educator, leading him to teach classical guitar in Idaho. One of his students was a physician and later became an important mentor for Dr. Dancoes.