Rasha Hanafy, DO

MDVIP has helped me to practice medicine in a way that is truly patient focused. I know my patients well.  I am able to spend quality time with them. I am better in proactively treating my patients’ current health issues, as well as keeping their long-term health in mind. MDVIP allows me to combine my years of clinical experience, evidence-based medicine, and the goals and preferences of the patient to develop an individualized treatment plan.  

I have had the pleasure of being in private practice since 2004. For many years, I enjoyed taking care of patients in a setting which allowed me a generous schedule and the freedom to get to know individuals based on their independent health concerns and goals very well. However, just before partnering with MDVIP, it did become increasingly difficult to share that valuable attentive time and to provide personalized care to each patient. As an MDVIP-affiliated physician, I am able to once again form and nurture close relationships with my patients. 

I am board certified in family medicine and board certified in osteopathic manipulative medicine, a set of hands-on techniques used to help diagnose, treat and prevent injury of the musculoskeletal system. I am actively studying functional medicine and plan to pursue my certification in functional medicine (a discipline in which you treat the underlying causes of disease rather than treating the symptoms).  I am proficient in evaluation, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and obesity; as well as being well-versed in the prevention and early detection of dementia and cancer.

Although I try to keep patients out of the hospital, I am affiliated with Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. I frequently serve the Maine communities of Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, South Portland, Scarborough, Gorham, Biddeford and Saco. However, I am humbled to have patients traveling from places as far as New Hampshire and Bangor to see me.

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