PBMC Welcomes Colin Coor, MD, to the
Hospital's Emergency Department

Dr. Colin Coor has joined the active medical staff in the Emergency Department at Penobscot Bay Medical Center.

A native of Burlington, Vt., Coor is a graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine. His undergraduate degrees, in nutritional biochemistry and biological sciences, are also from UVM, where he was second in his undergraduate class.

Coor has experience in a variety of emergency medicine settings. He decided to go into medicine after working on the Stowe, Vt., ski patrol early in his college years. He was an emergency medical technician (EMT) for 14 years before we went to medical school.

His experience includes three years at Rocky Mountain Eye Bank where he was a member of the recovery staff; nine years as Vermont program director of the New England Eye and Tissue Transplant Bank; four years as a surgical recovery team leader at the New England Organ Bank in Boston and four years as a poison specialist at the Vermont Poison Center.

As a member of the University of Vermont Rescue team, he was awarded "save of the year" for his district in 1996, for reviving a 23-year-old man after 25 minutes of CPR following a medical cardiac arrest. According to Coor, the patient was discharged without neurological damage and the two remain in touch.

Coor came to PBMC because of the hospital's location on the coast of Maine and the small size of the hospital's emergency department.

"I like to have more contact with my patients than city emergency departments allow," he said.

He is particularly interested in the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for trauma patients and as an aid to helping start IVs. For a year after medical school, Coor worked as a senior resident with a specialty in emergency ultrasound at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

He and his wife Rachel, a nurse who will work part-time at PBMC, live in Union. The couple came to Maine to be closer to Rachel's family in Damariscotta.

He plans to commute to work by bicycle. His other outdoor interests include hiking, back-pacing, snow-shoeing, back country skiing. He would like to hike the Appalachian Trail.