D. Todd Detar, D.O.

Office address: Department of Family Medicine, Calhoun Street Appointments: 843-792-3451 Administrative Office: 843-792-2431 Fax: 843-792-3598 Departmental and Administrative Positions: Clerkship Site Director

Education / Training:

University of Delaware, BS Health and Physical Education 1980
Ursinus College: Premedical Studies
Villanova University: Cell physiology Studies
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine,1987
Residency: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Fellowship: ADA Health Policy

Courses Taught:

The Healer’s Art Course, Director and Implementer, 2005-Present, MS1, MS2
Doctoring Curriculum
            Introduction to Clinical Reasoning

Positions in academic / professional groups:

Counsel member, American Balint Society
Member, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Predoctoral Steering Committee
Member, STFM Ethics and Humanities
Member, American Society of Addiction Medicine

Honors

AOA nominee to FDA Committee on Vaccines and Biologicals-2007
Golden Apple Medical Student Teaching Award Nominee – 2001, 2002, 2007
Best Doctors of America Recognition, 2002-present
Clinician of the Year Award – 2000 Department of Family Medicine, MUSC
John S. Emerbrink, DO Award, PCOM, 1987, Student AAO Award
Certified Balint Leader 2007
Certified Darkness to Light Facilitator 2007

Research / academic / clinical interests:

Balint Method and Patient Centered Care
Pre-doctoral Medicine
Addiction Medicine
Obstetrical care in Family Medicine

Selected or recent publications:

• “Chronic Bronchitis.” Home HealthCare Consultant. September 1999, 6[8]: 24-28. Hueston, WJ, Hunter, L, Detar, Todd         
• “Common Reproductive Symptoms: Scrotal Pain or Mass” Saunders Manuel of Medical Practice. Rakel R, 2000, 525-527 Detar, Todd  
• "Patient Use of Automatic Blood Pressure Measures in Retail Stores: Implications for Diagnosis And Treatment of Hypertension" The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, April 2002, 98, [2]: 62-66, C. Carolyn Thiedke, MD, Scott Laird, MHSA, D. Todd Detar, DO, Arch Mainous, III, PhD, Keidrue Jenkins, Xiaobu Ye, MD, MS
• “Camphor Ingestion in a 10 year old Male”, Southern Medical Journal, February 2007, Vol 100 No.2, pg 204. Ragucci, Trangmar, Bigby, D. Todd Detar, DO
• Physiotherapy plus a craniocervical training programme was better than physiotherapy alone in tension type headache, D. Todd Detar and Alexander W Chessman (commentator) Evid Based Med 2007; 12: 14. doi: 10.1136/ebm.12.1.14
• Review: history and physical examination can accurately identify migraine and the need for neuroimaging in patients with headache, Alexander W Chessman and D Todd Detar, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007; 12: 25.