Joan K. Lingen MD, FACOG

Dr Lingen is a 1989 graduate of The Chicago Medical School, which she attended as an Armed Forces Health Professions Scholar. As a commissioned U.S. Navy Medical Corps officer, she trained at the Naval Hospital in San Diego, California and completed her internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her subsequent military assignments included being a staff physician at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan and at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. After working with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser) in suburban Washington, DC and in a private practice occupational medical group in Virginia Beach, VA, she ultimately relocated to the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 2005 where she is currently the Clinical Director of the Franktown Community Health Center which is one of the 5 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) that make up the Eastern Shore Rural Health System, Inc.