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Nate, Clarissa and Cordelia
Heidi, Scott, Malena, and Isaac
Brandon and Sarah
Allison
Suzanne
Scott and Alli
Amy, Lee, and Milo
Galen's Internship Year: Pre-call and Post-call
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Third Year Residents
Nathan Bay, M.D.Saint Louis UniversityNate grew up in the small community of Silverton, Oregon. He attended Linfield College for undergrad then embarked out of Oregon to St. Louis for medical school where he attended Saint Louis University. His wife, Clarissa, whom he met in high school, has gracefully awaited a return to the west coast. They have been married 5 years and have a beautiful 8 month old daughter, Cordelia. With regards to medicine, Nate plans to practice rural family medicine in a small town somewhere in Oregon. He is excited to be back close to mountains, skiing, camping, fishing and hunting.Heidi Beery, M.D.OHSUHeidi is an Oregonian through and through, having never lived outside of Oregon. She grew up Roseburg, a town NW of Klamath Falls. She then went to Oregon State, where she met her husband, Scott, in the marching band (they both play the flute). After a stint teaching childbirth classes, she went to OHSU in Portland. Sick and tired of all the traffic, she finally reversed her trend of always heading north and started back at the bottom of the state for residency. She has two wonderful and very cute children, Isaac is in the second grade and Malena turns 1 in November. Scott stays busy with the children and working on our brand new 2/3 finished house. The whole family enjoys vacationing at Lake of the Woods, and going hiking, water skiing, and spending time with family.Brandon Chase, M.D.SUNY Medical University, SyracuseBrandon is happy to be back in the Northwest after an extended trip to New York where he worked as an outdoor educator in the Catskill Mountains and attended med school at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. Although originally from the NYC area, in a previous lifetime he called Portland, Oregon home. There he frittered his twenties away completing a philosophy degree at Reed College, discovering the beauty of wilderness travel, and happily commuting on a bicycle. He chose family medicine for the variety it offers and its opportunities for promoting healthy lifestyles. Medicine aside, Brandon enjoys free time with his better half, Sarah, and their dog, Irene.Allison Meadows, M.D.Indiana University School of MedicineAllison was born in Indianapolis, IN but spent most of her formative years just north of there in Muncie (home of Garfield, Ball jars, and Ball State University). She went further north for college, attending the University of Chicago, and after that experience decided she needed a break from academics for a little while. Allison then joined AmeriCorps in San Francisco (which was also much closer to Damon) but subsequently returned to the Midwest for a Master's degree and medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is very happy to be back on the West Coast and loves the access to any and all outdoor activities near Klamath Falls!Allison's Residency Bio (YouTube) Climbing Mt. McLaughlin (YouTube) Suzanne Powell, M.D.University of WashingtonSuzanne is originally from eastern Washington State and went to the University of Washington for both undergrad and medical school. Between the two, she spent two years in Washington DC working in health policy. In medical school, she spent six months in Alaska, two months in the Marshall Islands and a summer researching the impact of prisons on rural communities. Her interests include reproductive health, chronic disease (and wellness) management, complementary and alternative modalities of healing and basically leading a health care revolution that recognizes the importance of primary care and that provides health care for all. In her spare time, she would love to bike, read, knit, attend at least a few operas and plays and spend time with her partner, Ann and her animals, but mostly she is focusing on sleeping and eating in her internship.Scott Rogers, M.D.Ohio State UniversityScott hails from the small, one-stoplight town of Butler, Ohio, where he grew up with an appreciation for rural life and the outdoors. He attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio, before moving to the city to start medical school at the Ohio State University (Go Buckeyes!). His wife, Allison, also an Ohio native, is a veterinarian, and together, they decided to try their luck in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where they plan to take advantage of the outdoors by hiking, skiing, and geocaching their way through the many trails that the Cascades have to offer. Scott also enjoys reading, cooking, piano, trumpet, basketball, and being ignored by his two black cats.Amy Sutkus, M.D.OHSUAmy grew up on a farm in northern New York State. After majoring in English and French in undergrad at Alfred University, she went into the Peace Corps in the Central African Republic, where she met her future husband, Lee. After returning from Africa, she taught English in Japan and worked in Hawaii before bicycling across Canada and the US with Lee. She took premed classes at Bryn Mawr College and attended Oregon Health and Science University medical school. Amy likes gardening, quilting, and long walks with RufRuf.Galen Whipple, M.D.University of MinnesotaDepending on one's point of view, Galen had either the good fortune or bad luck to be born into a family of academic vagabonds. Born in Singapore and raised in Ethiopia where his parents taught in universities, Galen is generally perplexed when asked, "Where are you from?" Nowadays he will generally lie and claim to be from Ashland, Oregon (where he both dropped out of high school and then taught chemistry and physics), although he has no family in Ashland or any other major connection to Ashland beyond thinking it's a rather nice town. During free-time (which as an intern amounts to the staggering one day per week, averaged over for weeks), Galen would enjoy jogging, biking, hiking, and playing soccer but usually ends up doing major home repairs on the 100-year old home he purchased while his Australian shepherd mournfully watches and dreams about getting out of the house. During vacations Galen will usually either be in the back-country where no beeper or cell service is available, traveling over-seas, or, sadly, putting in an underground sprinkler system or renovating his basement. Galen attended medical school at the University of Minnesota. |
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