President, Dahl-Chase Pathology Associates
AP/CP Resident: 1997-2001
Surgical Pathology Assistant: 2001-2002
Transfusion/Blood Banking Fellow: 2002-2003
Dr. Buetens is the president of Dahl-Chase Pathology Associates/Dahl-Chase Diagnostic Services, located in Bangor, Maine. He also serves as section director of transfusion services at Eastern Maine Medical Center and laboratory medical director of Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield, Maine and Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. He previously served as medical director of Affiliated Laboratory Inc., in Bangor, Maine and the Eastern Maine School of Medical Technology from 1/2006-3/2011.
Dr. Buetens received both his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Tufts University where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. He came to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1997 for the combined AP/CP residency. Following residency, he stayed at Hopkins to serve as an assistant in surgical pathology (2001-2002) and then as a fellow in Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking (2002-2003).
Dr. Buetens is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and transfusion medicine/blood banking. He lives in Orono, Maine with his wife, 3 children and Pug dog.