Frank P Marowitz, DO

About Frank P Marowitz, DO

Frank Marowitz, D.O., a board-certified emergency medicine physician, earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine, and a Master of Science in geotechnical engineering and a B.S. in civil engineering, both from the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Dr. Marowitz completed a pre-doctoral teaching fellowship at UNECOM and an emergency medicine residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Penn.

“I’m a career changer, I returned to medicine kind of later in life after doing a career in geotechnical engineering, which is a specialized version of civil engineering,” he says. “I wanted to be able to do something that allowed me to practice much more broadly and help people in my daily job.”

Dr. Marowitz says when he was looking for “motivation and inspiration” for his career change he recognized that his long-time experience in pre-hospital emergency medical services and wilderness medicine, working with the National Ski Patrol since 1999 in northern New Hampshire, naturally led him to pursuing a career in emergency medicine.

“The things I like most about emergency medicine is that the patients we see are undifferentiated, so we kind of start from scratch, and that we have the ability to make a significant improvement during our short contact with a patient,” he says. “A patient comes into our care in a state of being unwell or injured, and hopefully, after a short visit with us, we’re able to stabilize them, and they leave our care in a much better state.”

As he noted, emergency physicians don’t have a cohort of patients they see regularly. “One of the challenges of emergency medicine, and it’s actually one of the areas I enjoy the most, is you need to be able to create a relationship and a rapport with your patients very, very quickly,” Dr. Marowitz says. “It’s kind of my goal to do that within the first few sentences of meeting them in the room, to try to gain a connection and mutual respect to have a good physician-patient relationship.”

In his free time, he says, “You can usually find me playing outside with anything that pedals and involves wheels, with bikes of many different sorts, or skiing, hiking or climbing.”