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Dr. Ray Psonak is a licensed Osteopathic Physician
(DO) in
the State of Maine. After having been a Acoustics Research Electrical Engineer
for several years with Bell Telephone Laboratories and Systems
Analyst with Hewlett Packard Medical Electronics division, he
entered Medical school. He graduated in 1991 from the University of
New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
(UNECOM) located in Biddeford, Maine. He did his post graduate
training at Tri-City Hospital in Dallas, Texas and received
extensive training in Environmental Medicine and alternative
approaches to disease from Dr. William Rea, M.D. at his
internationally known clinic in Dallas, Texas,
EHCD, and world renowned for his
work in Environmental Medicine. Dr. Psonak's post graduate work
included research on Chemical Sensitivities with patients affected
by the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska and other patients affected
by chemicals, toxic metals, parasites, viruses, and metabolic
imbalances. He worked with patients with Allergies, Asthma, Thyroid,
Auto-Immune disorders, neurological, and cardiac diseases. While at
Tri-City hospital, he used his "spare" time and developed a team to
go from room to room
comforting sick patients with singing and music.
Since 1993 Dr. Psonak has been practicing in the greater
Portland/Gray area of Maine, helping people with allergies,
environmental sensitivities and circulatory and Neurological
problems. He is constantly looking for new and better ways to help
in the treatment of chronic diseases and holds a belief that the
body is beautifully and wonderfully made by God to heal itself when given the right nutrients, diet, and
environment. He looks upon all the systems of the body as working in
concert together as an
integrated whole.
Undergraduate: Drexel University, Philadelphia, BSEE College of
Engineering, with a Minor in music. Prior to Medical school, he worked as a
research Acoustics Engineer at
Bell Telephone Laboratories, and with Hewlett Packard as a
computer systems consultant. He has a passion for Christian music, and has
lead a band, and church worship teams over the years, and been part
of an evangelistic community in Ann Arbor Michigan called
The Word of God.
During his intense medical training in Dallas TX, he would always
find "extra" time at the hospital to go from room to room ministering to patients
with song and guitar.
Medical school: University of New
England, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, Maine
Professional organizations: ACAM,
AAEM, PAMA
American College of Alternative Medicine, American Academy of
Environmental Medicine, Performing Arts Medical Academy
Family: His loving wife, Janet, is a registered nurse, and works as a nurse
and receptionist in the office. He has three wonderful sons, Mark, serving our country in the
US Army,
Kevin, a professor at University of Texas, and Ray, an attorney in New York
Interests: Loves playing guitar, singing, song-writing, boating, camping, skiing,
hiking, biking, hunting, fishing and working on cars, and teaching
others his God given talents. He is very active in
his church, New Life
Christian Fellowship in Lewiston, Maine.
Executive Team: Ray Psonak DO & Janet Psonak RN
Janet Psonak is a licensed registered nurse in the State of Maine. After having been a missionary, working in a church mission in Plattsburg, NY and a retreat center in Willimantic, CT, she studied to be a practical nurse in Hartford, CT and worked at Hartford Hospital until 1970. She then went to Ann Arbor, MI, where she studied at the University of Michigan receiving a BSN in nursing. She worked on a neurology/ neurosurgery floor at University Hospital and then became a float nurse working on medical/ surgical and other floors. During her time in Michigan and up to 1983 she was part of a charismatic inter-denominational Christian community in Ann Arbor called the Word of God. She met her husband, Ray Psonak, in Ann Arbor where they were married in 1979. In 1983 they moved to Salem, NH where Janet worked for a prominent doctor who had a large practice caring for environmentally sick patients. In 1987 both she and her husband moved to Maine and while Ray was in medical school, Janet worked on a cardiac floor at Maine Medical Hospital in Portland and later at the formally known as Osteopathic Hospital in Portland. During this time, they adopted their son Mark.
Janet has been working with her husband from the beginning of the practice and is the IV nurse, as well as testing patients for allergies among her many other duties. Her interests and hobbies are similar to her husband’s. She loves skiing, biking, ice skating, camping, Christian music, dancing
and boating.