Triangle Catholic Medical Association Chapter Officers
President- Lori Schweickert MD
Dr. Schweickert is a graduate of Creighton University School of Medicine, a Jesuit University in Omaha, NE. After completing her General Psychiatry Residency at Duke University and a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA, she is now the Medical Director of 3C Family Services in Cary, NC, and holds an adjunct clinical appointment in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University. Dr. Schweickert has led short term medical mission teams in Honduras, Thailand, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti. She is a member of the Newman Catholic Student Center Parish at UNC - Chapel Hill.".
Secretary- John Thorp MD
John M. Thorp, Jr. is Hugh McAllister Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research involves three signature themes: fertility, families, and children; biological and social interactions; and place, space, and health.
He is medical director of HORIZONS, a 10-year old program that addresses the needs of pregnant and postpartum women with alcohol or substance use problems. He has worked outside of academia in the non-profit sector as a consultant for organizations located in South America and Africa to help establish hospitals and train traditional birth attendants in the use of clinical intervention procedures. Most recently, he has helped the UNC OB-GYN Department establish a clinical training program in Lilongwe, Malawi. In 2013 he was named Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC and has directed the Women’s Primary Care Division for the last decade. Dr. Thorp is a member of the Catholic Community of St Thomas More in Chapel Hill.
He is medical director of HORIZONS, a 10-year old program that addresses the needs of pregnant and postpartum women with alcohol or substance use problems. He has worked outside of academia in the non-profit sector as a consultant for organizations located in South America and Africa to help establish hospitals and train traditional birth attendants in the use of clinical intervention procedures. Most recently, he has helped the UNC OB-GYN Department establish a clinical training program in Lilongwe, Malawi. In 2013 he was named Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC and has directed the Women’s Primary Care Division for the last decade. Dr. Thorp is a member of the Catholic Community of St Thomas More in Chapel Hill.
Treasurer- Jeff Vista MD, FACEP
Dr. Jeff Peter Vista is an Emergency Medicine physician at Duke University. After a career as an emergency medicine physician in the United States Air Force spanning over 20 years, Dr. Vista has been involved in clinical medicine and medical education at Duke University since 2015. Dr. Vista earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from West Virginia University in 1987. After graduating from the Uniformed Services University School of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, he trained and was Chief Resident at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. In the Air Force Dr. Vista served as Emergency Department Medical Director at Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia, and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; Chief of the Medical Staff at Dover AFB, Delaware, and Hurlburt Field, Florida; and Detachment Commander/Senior Air Force Instructor at the Interservice Physician Assistant Program, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Dr. Vista has deployed overseas to Saudi Arabia, Diego Garcia, and Iraq, serving as a Critical Care Air Transport Team physician as well as a flight surgeon.
