{"id":21,"date":"2018-03-17T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2018-03-21T00:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T04:13:58","slug":"meet-the-author-rick-ricer-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/meet-the-author-rick-ricer-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author &#8211; Rick Ricer, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIcer-in-suit-140x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIcer-in-suit-140x300.jpg 140w, https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIcer-in-suit.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Rick E. Ricer, M.D. is a board certified Family Physician who has been in medicine for 43 years.\u00a0 He currently is an Emeritus tenured Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0\u00a0 Rick attended medical school at The Ohio State University and completed a Family Practice residency in the military at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0 After an honorable discharge from the US Army, he practiced rural medicine in West Virginia and was on the medical school faculty at Marshall University.\u00a0\u00a0 He then joined the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University and later transferred to teach at the the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0 He has been residency faculty, Predoctoral Director, Vice-Chair, researcher, author, and mentor.\u00a0 Rick has continued to actively practice the art of Family Medicine throughout his career in both rural and inner city practices.\u00a0 He retired from medicine in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br \/>\nThe author greatly appreciates the professionals and staff who helped schedule interviews with Family Physicians all around the country.\u00a0 These people went above and beyond the call of duty and friendship and made me feel at home everywhere I traveled.\u00a0 In fact, many opened their homes to me. \u00a0 I truly appreciate the time and effort of <a href=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/contributors\/\">every family physician who contributed to this series of e-books<\/a>.\u00a0 Everyone seemed excited to get an opportunity to pass their wisdom on to another generation of learners and always made me feel welcome in their offices.\u00a0 I also appreciate the help and friendship of the late James Short, Ph.D. whose expertise made these e-books possible.\u00a0 He always displayed true creative genius.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Baseball-birth-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Baseball-birth-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Baseball-birth.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Banjo-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Banjo-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Banjo.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redwood-walk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"267\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Family-at-redwoods-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Family-at-redwoods-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Family-at-redwoods.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74\" src=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Red-Rocks-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Red-Rocks-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Red-Rocks.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Dr. Ricer&#8217;s retirement, this website is moderated by <a href=\"mailto:webmaster@wisdomoftheageds.info\">Ron Reynolds, MD<\/a>,\u00a0 a University of Cincinnati Department of Family Medicine colleague of his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick E. Ricer, M.D. is a board certified Family Physician who has been in medicine for 43 years.\u00a0 He currently is an Emeritus tenured Professor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisdomoftheageds.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}