New Milford Family Medicine Residency Faculty

Robert Carr, MD
Program Director, New Milford Family Medicine Residency

Dr. Carr is a Family Physician and Geriatric Medicine specialist who brings over 35-years of clinical, teaching, and administrative experience to the role of Residency Program Director.

Dr. Carr received his medical degree from Drexel University School of Medicine and completed a Family Medicine residency at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center. He subsequently completed a visiting fellowship in Geriatrics at East Carolina University, a graduate certificate in Health Care Management from Georgetown University, and a graduate certificate in Collaborative Change Leadership from the University of Toronto.

In his 21 years at Nuvance Health, Dr. Carr has served as Vice-President for Clinical Transformation, Chief Medical Officer of the Physician Hospital Organization, Director of Physician Quality, Clerkship Director for Family Medicine Education, and Medical Director of Southbury Primary Care. He served as principal investigator for a $1.7 million HRSA training grant on interprofessional care and as the project director and principal investigator for a $4.5 million federal grant addressing health-related social needs.

Prior to Nuvance Health, he spent 11 years as Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Georgetown University, was the Chair of Family Medicine at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC., and served as a US Army Medical Corps officer and Director of Geriatrics for the Family Medicine Residency Program at Dewitt Army Community Hospital. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont School of Medicine.

Dr. Carr is Past-President of both the Connecticut and District of Columbia Academies of Family Physicians, and currently represents Connecticut as a delegate to the national congress of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has authored numerous publications and has served on many national task forces and expert panels in the areas of geriatric medicine, primary care redesign, and payment reform.

Core Faculty & Family Medicine Faculty

Dr. Sandhya Kumar, Core Faculty
Dr. Kumar earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, completed residencies in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Montefiore-Einstein in the Bronx, and her MPH from CUNY School of Public Health. Dr. Kumar has focused her clinical work and scholarly work on care of marginalized communities, with a particular interest in housing instability and homelessness. Dr. Kumar is deeply committed to training family physicians to deliver high-quality, community-based healthcare as a powerful tool for advancing social justice, improving public health, and fostering community wellbeing.

Dr. Peter Anderson- Core Faculty
Dr. Anderson came to New Milford in 1984, taking over an existing family medicine practice. He wanted the ability to utilize his full scope of training and also cares for patients at their homes, two local nursing homes and in the inpatient setting. He has served as the Chairman of the Peer Review Committee at New Milford Hospital for more than 20 years. He enjoys teaching and began precepting students within a year of practicing medicine and has done so ever since. He also serves as the clerkship co-director for Family Medicine at Nuvance Health for the past 4 years. Dr. Anderson strongly believes in a comprehensive, collaborative, patient-centered approach to health care. His goal is to help residents become a well-rounded, compassionate Family Physician and an excellent clinician.

Dr. Kathleen Mueller- Family Medicine Faculty
Dr. Kathy Mueller is a proud graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and stayed at UConn to complete her residency in Hartford. She started her career in traditional, full-scope family medicine with obstetrics and, led by an insatiable curiosity about non-traditional healing methods, she studied acupuncture and medical hypnosis. She expanded those skills with a 2-year fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and has built a career by specializing in the use of food, movement, mind-body medicine, and supplements to improve health. She is passionate about advocacy and serving the specialty of family medicine. She spent 25 years with the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors, and currently serves as a Director of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is married with 3 children and loves to hike, garden, sew and read.

Dr. Ghulam Khan, Family Medicine Faculty
Dr. Khan graduated from Dow Medical College in 2007. He completed his Family Medicine Residency and his Geriatric Fellowship at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Khan is currently working as a Primary Care Physician with Nuvance Health at the Southbury Primary Care office and also serves as the Medical Director of the Lutheran Home. He is enthusiastic about Primary Care and Geriatrics and is dedicated to improving community health. He is actively involved in mentorship and teaching, fostering the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Dr. David McIntosh, Family Medicine Faculty
Dr. David K. McIntosh is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and provides Primary Care to infants, children, adolescents and adults. He is a skilled diagnostician and enjoys motivating his patients toward addressing their own individual health needs. Originally from Miami, FL, he attended Duke University and graduated with a BS in Zoology (focusing on Animal Behavior and Immunology). He then entered Medical School at the University of Miami and received specialty training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He remained on faculty at UMSOM for several years, teaching students and residents in the areas of Physiology, Medical Ethics, and General Medicine for Acute & Chronic care of pediatric and adult patients. As a result of his teaching skill, he received the “Outstanding Teacher Award” from the school in 1998. He also served as co-director of the schools combined Medicine/ Pediatrics Residency Program. He is very excited to be returning to a formal setting of Residency Training for Family Medicine. Since coming to Connecticut in 2000, he has provided care to Children and Adults in the Litchfield Hills, concentrating on the health of entire families, while continuing to teach medical students and seminary students through various venues. He is active in regional community programs and has served on several non-profit boards. He is also a strong advocate of the LGBTQ community. During his free time, he enjoys hiking and camping. And, in addition to being a physician, he’s also an Episcopal priest and spiritual counselor in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.

Dr. Kathleen Bernard, Faculty
Dr. Kathleen Bernard, MD is a board-certified family medicine physician with fellowship training in reproductive health. A proud graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Dr. Bernard also completed her residency training at Mount Sinai and stayed on as faculty there, running a resident procedure clinic and precepting clinic sessions.
Born and raised in this northwest CT community, Dr. Bernard feels deeply honored to return here as a physician and serve the people and neighborhoods that shaped her. Her practice is rooted in building long-term, trusting relationships with patients across generations.
Dr. Bernard provides a special expertise in reproductive and sexual health—including contraception, abortion care, pregnancy management, and menopause care with a focus on hormone replacement therapy. She is particularly passionate about managing medically complex patients and tailoring care plans to meet each individual’s unique needs.
As a clinician-educator, Dr. Bernard loves mentoring medical trainees and advancing reproductive justice through interdisciplinary education. She is committed to care that centers the voices and values of her patients.

Dr. Kristin Newton - Faculty
Born and raised in Connecticut, Dr. Kristin Newton completed her undergraduate degree in Physiology and Neurobiology at UCONN Storrs. She gained valuable experience working as an ER tech prior to attending medical school at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada. She loved all of her training and had a hard time choosing a specialty, but she found her home in the connections and complexity that Family Medicine offered. She went on to train at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor Maine, where she was challenged and inspired by the unique needs of a rural patient population. Following residency, she returned to Connecticut to practice outpatient adult and pediatric family medicine in Kent and then New Milford. She then joined the hospitalist team at Sharon Hospital where she takes care of inpatient adults as well as caring for newborns in the newborn nursery. She has always had a passion for lifelong learning, and she has found that teaching is the best way to keep learning.
When not taking care of patients, Kristin finds immense joy in raising her three young sons and tending her large home garden where she grows cut flowers and vegetables. She is also enjoys writing fiction, reading, photography, and cooking.