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Niagara Family

Niagara Family Health Center is a multicultural Family Medicine Center in the heart of downtown Buffalo. A diversity of ethnic groups living in this West Side neighborhood are provided care at Niagara FHC, including a large number of Latinos, a smaller Vietnamese population and a variety of recent immigrants and refugees from Africa and Asia (e.g., Cambodia, Thailand, Somalia).

Residents each see approximately 2,000 patient visits at the Niagara FHC during their three years. Families are assigned to new residents and followed in a continuity practice, allowing residents to see a wide variety of patients. Approximately twenty-eight percent of our visits are with children and adolescents; another twelve percent are age 60 or over. While children are evenly male and female, the overall practice is about two-thirds female. The resident practice includes much prenatal care, and office-based procedures (surgical, colposcopy, and endometrial biopsy).

Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS)
The FMIS Service is located at Buffalo General Hospital. The team consists of an attending physician, chief resident and 2 or 3 residents or students. A very busy but stimulating service.

There are five board-certified attending family physicians, 6 residents, 4 nurse practitioners, and 4 nurses at the Niagara Family Health Center. Additional services include a visiting dermatologist, podiatrist, full time social worker, bilingual prenatal classes, and diabetes and asthma patient education classes. Our staff is friendly and mostly bilingual. Patients and staff feel right at home.

Several faculty actively pursue ongoing community-based research. There are opportunities to participate in such research as desired. We have been recognized by the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Science as a Community Academic Practice, acknowledging our capabilities in training resident physicians to be family doctors.