Brian Youth, MD is the Program Director of the Maine Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program, a primary care pediatrician at Maine Medical Partners Westbrook Pediatrics, an EPIC Physician Leader, and a member of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Scholarship Academy steering committee.
Dr. Youth graduated from the Brown University School of Medicine as part of the Dartmouth-Brown Program in 1992, and completed his Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics in 1996. He joined MMC and MMP in 1996 and has called Maine home ever since. He was the medical director of the newborn nursery from 2000-2020, has been the pediatric residency director since 2004, and has been an EPIC physician builder and clinical lead since 2011. Dr. Youth finds great satisfaction in working with residents and medical students through his leadership role in the residency program as well as through serving as a continuity clinic preceptor at the Pediatric Clinic at MMC.
Dr. Youth lives in Scarborough with his wife, Jane, and is the father of three sons. He enjoys hiking, cycling, cooking and all things food related in and around Maine.
Scholarship Areas of Interest: newborn medicine, the use of electronic health records to improve care, quality improvement, and medical education
Project Name: Evaluation of point of care testing for glucose management in asymptomatic neonates at risk of hypoglycemia