Department Chair, Family Medicine
MaineHealth

Dr. Samitt is chair of the department of family medicine at MaineHealth. She received her BA in Biology and Psychology from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed residency in family medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, in 1999, then worked in private practice in Scarborough, Maine, before joining the MMC FM residency in 2003 as core faculty and director of maternal and child health. Dr. Samitt was the program director of the MMC family medicine residency from 2007-2021, the director of student affairs for the TUSM-Maine track program from 2021-2022, and in 2022 took on her current role of department chair of family medicine. She has trained over a hundred resident physicians and countless students and is passionate about supporting learners and academic family physicians to be the best clinicians, educators and leaders they can be.