Cascades East Family Medicine Residency
2801 Daggett Avenue
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
(541) 274-4611
info@ruralresidency.com

Cascades East: Family, Community, Education

PEOPLE

Kristi Coleman

Katherine Forman

Kanani Loper

Daniel Oliver Pederson

Sarah Scott

Ed Trobaugh

Stephanie VanDyke

First Year Residents

Kristi Coleman, M.D.

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Kristi was born in Landstuhl, Germany, the last of 5 children, and moved to New Mexico when she was five years old. After attending New Mexico Tech for undergrad and majoring in environmental microbiology, she meandered over to Cincinnati, OH to attend medical school. She was quickly ready to leave the humidity and flatness of the midwest and return to mountains. Her interests in family practice are varied but include wilderness medicine, preventative health measures, alternative/complementary therapies, family planning and providing comprehensive full-spectrum care to families and communities in rural areas with unmet needs. Her hobbies include hiking, rare book collecting, watching really bad sci-fi movies, and taking care of the many potted plants that live at her house. Every once in a while she might crochet an afghan.

Katherine Forman, M.D.

University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Katie has managed to take a very convoluted path to becoming a doctor. Raised in New Mexico, her first passion was geology and exploring the great outdoors. Geoscience degrees from the University of Washington, and later the University of Arizona, sent her down the path of being an exploration geophysicist. However, after a few too many years doing hard physical labor on mining expeditions she finally saw the light. Get an office based job she thought—one with reasonable hours! So off she went to work for Los Alamos National Lab where she did work on high energy (i.e. explosives) physics. After one too many talks with double integrals, however, she decided this life wasn’t for her after all and she finally settled on fulfilling a life long dream of studying health and medicine.

She first pursued interests in physical therapy and oriental medicine before earning her MD degree at the University of New Mexico: School of Medicine. Now she is thrilled to find herself in Klamath Falls for the Family Medicine Residency. (The dream of a job with reasonable hours however has gone by the wayside!) Katie is an avid outdoors enthusiast filling any, and all, of her spare time with white water kayaking, mountain biking, rowing, exploring the area, and hopefully backcountry skiing when winter finally arrives. She feels lucky to have found a program that combines great outdoor living opportunities with top notch medical education.

Debra Hartley, M.D.

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Kanani Loper, M.D.

University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine

An ocean or so away from home, Kanani loves Klamath Falls, and is ecstatic to be a resident of Cascades East Family Medicine Residency. Kanani lives with her one to five dogs, (depends on the month), in a new House on Pacific Terrace–a wonderful part of town. She enjoys kayaking down the many rivers of Klamath County, swimming in the blue-green algae of Klamath Lake, and was surprised to find a Hawaiian store in the heart of Klamath Falls: Ohana Mammas.

Born and raised by Waimea Bay (a town of three thousand with one stoplight) on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, Kanani grew up surfing the peaks of the best surf in the world and in her spare time would help her father sew up surf cuts in his small town family practice. She managed to escape the lure of shave ice making and the dream of becoming a professional surfer, and went to college at the University of Puget Sound; and medical school at the John A Burns School of Medicine in Hawaii. Her passions in the field of medicine include international health, an introduction was provided during a two month medical school internship at Iambi hospital in Tanzania, psychology, geriatric medicine, and complementary/alternative medicine (there are some great acupuncturists in Kfalls that she has found!)

Why does she like Cascades East Family Medicine Residency Program? Because there are so many characters here; it provides a small-town feeling with a large and interesting patient balance; and there is nature everywhere to explore. There is such a perfect balance of work and good times at this residency. Email if you have questions: dilcher@gmail.com

Daniel Oliver Pederson, D.O.

Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Daniel spent his childhood enjoying summer vacations with his high school teaching parents and younger sister camping, waterskiing and wakeboarding. When the time came, his pursuit of knowledge took him to Grinnell College in a place he had never heard of—far off Iowa. To everyone's surprise, not the least of which was his own, he stayed in Iowa for the next nine years. During those nine years Daniel developed a healthy love of trailing which took him too many faraway lands including; Australia, Honduras, Thailand and New Zealand. Having endured many a frigid winter in Iowa he decided that residency would be an excellent opportunity to see a new part of the country. Having packed his (station) wagon he headed west along the Oregon Trail to establish a new camp in Klamath Falls, OR. Daniel's professional interests include: international medicine, sports medicine, mental health and preventative medicine.

Sarah Scott, D.O.

Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Sarah Scott was born in Grass Valley, a town of about 10,000 people in Northern California. She received her bachelors degree in Biochemistry from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA and then pursued her medical education at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, CA. Her passions within medicine include HIV care, adolescent medicine, osteopathic manipulation and OB. She and her husband are high school sweethearts and were married during her second year of med school. They are expecting their first child in October of her intern year. In her non-existent free time, Sarah enjoys crocheting, cooking and reading.

Edward Trobaugh, M.D.

University of Washington School of Medicine

Ed was born in Germany but grew up in Spanaway, WA—back when parachute pants and Max Headroom were popular. After six years in the Navy he changed course and studied Spanish and History at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. While working with the homeless after college, Ed fell in love with the idea of providing medical care to marginalized populations and decided to become a physician. During medical school he felt drawn to complementary and alternative medicine, infectious disease and health policy. In his spare time Ed likes to hike, sail, play disc-golf and travel.

Stephanie VanDyke, M.D.

Albany Medical College

A Portland Oregon native, Stephanie never had intentions of going to medical school, let alone pursuing any academics after college. But after graduating with a degree in psychology and realizing this was not her calling, she left to travel the world and try to find herself through various volunteer projects. Upon returning to the states, she realized she could not turn her back on the largest and most disparate health inadequacies she had ever seen. And so, for the first time, she pondered medicine, and realized that an MD was one of the most powerful tools she could possess to return to these third world villages to work together with locals to raise the standard of living. And here she is. Once a rudderless socialite who jumped at the chance to decimate her male friends in an evening of beer pong, she is now a hermit, who during her spare time enjoys hanging out with her dogs and engaging in non-profit work. Stephanie cannot imagine a better environment in which to learn and practice medicine—in anticipation of returning to Uganda upon graduation—than Cascades East's FP residency in Klamath Falls. To check out the organization she and several good friends founded, visit www.engeye.org.

Christopher Baumann, M.D.

OHSU

Christopher will spend one year at CEFM before entering a Radiology Program.

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