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Selma Holden

Selma Holden, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.

Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

Program Director, Northern New England Clinical Champions Grant

Location

Decary Hall 30
Biddeford Campus

Dr. Holden is a family medicine physician who has additional training in integrative medicine modalities including yoga (RYT200+), herbal medicines, and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.  She completed her residency training at Maine Dartmouth's Family Medicine Program in Augusta, where her care focused on helping opioid-dependent mothers through pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood.  She's worked in integrative medicine clinics in Maine and Massachusetts and completed Harvard Medical School's Integrative Medicine Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship.  At UNECOM, she teaches Osteopathic Clinical Knowledge & Skills, and the Healer’s Art for the first and second year students.  Her clinical service is through a private practice in the greater Portland area. Her current research focuses on the therapeutic potential of prenatal yoga to improve an expecting mother's wellness and mobility as well as medication assisted psychotherapy.

Credentials

Education

MD
Case Western Reserve University
2008
MPH - Clinical Effectiveness
Harvard School of Public Health
2015
MS - Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University
2001

Clinical Affiliations

Good Medicine Collective (Portland, Maine)

Post-Doctoral Training

Fellowship, Integrative Medicine Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts)

Residency, Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency
(Augusta, Maine)