News Release

November 12, 2009

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu 

Primary Care Doctor Joins UConn Health Center

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Rebecca Andrews, a primary care physician, is now seeing patients at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

After serving as an attending physician at Community Health Center Inc. in New Britain, and most recently as its Hartford County on-site medical director, Andrews returns to the UConn Health Center, where she earned her medical degree and completed her internal medicine residency. She also has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Boston College.

Andrews is board certified in internal medicine. Her areas of interest include women’s health, heart failure and chronic disease management. She is fluent in Spanish.

More information about primary care at the UConn Health Center is available at http://primarycare.uchc.edu. To schedule an appointment, call 860-679-4477 or 800-535-6232.

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Caption: Dr. Rebecca Andrews, a primary care physician, is now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center.

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