Dr. Joseph Semmes

Dr. Joseph Semmes practiced Emergency Medicine in Northern Virginia for fifteen years, and is currently on staff at Mercy Hospital and the Maine Medical Center. He is True North’s Director of Research and gives talks through the Education Program.

Dr. Semmes serves on the Advisory Board of the Cancer Community Center, the Medical Staff Credentials Committee and Institutional Review Board of Mercy Hospital and is a corporator of the Hospice of Southern Maine. He is also a member of Maine Medical Center’s preventive medicine taskforce and an advisory editor of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Semmes’ special interests are helping care for cancer patients, the role of nutrients in cancer biology, preventing dementia and depression, evidence-based medicine and mind-body medicine.