Dr. Erik Steele, DO

Erik Steele, DO is a family practice physician who sees patients in the Eastern Maine Medical Center Family Practice Center. In addition, Dr. Steele works in several area hospital emergency departments seeing patients in medical crisis. Because of his strong belief in the value of an educated health consumer, Dr. Steele also is a regular columnist in the Bangor Daily News, and appears as an on-air medical consultant on the Channel 5 News "Healthy Living" feature. His readers and viewers get regular doses of his practical, no-nonsense approach to summing up the world as he sees it.

Dr. Steele's dedication to the healthcare of the region goes beyond these pursuits as well. In his role as Vice President for Patient Care Services and Administrator of, Emergency, and Critical Care/Critical Care Transport programs at Eastern Maine Medical Center, Dr. Steele's medical expertise is again called upon in creative and useful ways, to the benefit of patients and staff at EMMC.

Dr. David Prescott, PhD Psychologist

Dr. David Prescott is Director of Psychology and Clinical Research at Acadia Hospital in Bangor. A graduate of Bowdoin College, the University of Nebraska, and internship at Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Prescott has worked for nearly 15 years providing assessment and treatment for adults and adolescents.

Current areas of interest include treatment of anxiety and depression, surgical weight loss, cardiac rehabilitation and wellness, and substance abuse.

Dr. Prescott has participated in numerous campaigns and media presentations designed to promote psychological wellness and improve public awareness of mental health. Dr. Prescott, his wife, psychologist Dr. Diana Prescott, and 3 children are proud to be part of the greater Bangor community.

Dr. Joan Pellegrini, MD

Joan Pellegrini, MD is one of Eastern Maine Medical Center's three trauma surgeons, having joined the staff at EMMC in October 2000. Dr. Pellegrini was attracted to Bangor by the unique opportunity to work in a highly respected and progressive medical institution with a growing trauma program, while still enjoying the quality of life Maine has to offer. When she's not handling trauma cases at EMMC, Dr. Pellegrini has a general surgery practice. She has a particular awareness of preventable injury in her trauma role, and is dedicated to helping educate the community on a variety of health issues through her work as an on-air medical consultant on the Channel 5 News "Healthy Living" feature.

Dr. Amy Movius, MD

A self proclaimed “Country Mouse,” Amy Movius, MD, was attracted to Bangor and Eastern Maine Medical Center because of the highly skilled care offered in an area bursting with recreational opportunities. Dr. Movius, a pediatric intensivist in EMMC’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), continues to be impressed at how well we Mainers take care of our own, “This is an environment I am happy to be working in,” she says.

Dr. Movius also staffs EMMC’s dedicated Pediatric Sedation Program, and helps with various outreach programs and other opportunities that provide additional support to practitioners throughout central, eastern, and northern Maine. She also enjoys helping with health segments at WABI-TV 5, “it’s a great opportunity to dispense useful and important information about children’s health and safety issues,” adds Dr. Movius.

Dr. Jonathan Wood, MD

Jonathan Wood, MD is specialist in Pediatric Critical Care and currently is the medical director of Eastern Maine Medical Center’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Dr. Wood came to Bangor in 2002 from a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where his clinical work was solely in the areas of Pediatric Intensive Care and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Since arriving at EMMC, Dr. Wood has recruited two additional Pediatric Intensivists to help staff the PICU. He has also created a dedicated Pediatric Sedation Program at EMMC.

Dr. Wood was attracted to Bangor not only by EMMC's commitment to delivering quality pediatric intensive care, but also by a commitment to serving the general medical needs of children in the entire region. With this in mind, efforts are now being focused on outreach programs and other ways to provide additional support to practitioners in the many communities of central, eastern, and northern Maine.