Born in Landstuhl, Germany as the last of five children, my family moved to New Mexico when I was 5 years old. This is where I stayed until moving to Ohio for medical school, then coming to Oregon for a residency in Family Practice. My professional interests include rural/underserved full spectrum care, wilderness medicine, and tropical medicine. In college I had the privilege to travel to South Africa and collect water samples from deep gold mines. This experience showed me how different their life was from my own; like living in a miner’s shanty town to daily racial segregation. The unique health issues of the miner’s population (50% were HIV positive) and of the country (soft drinks contained quinine to fight malaria) stuck with me more than the microbiology I was there to study. That trip was the beginning of my journey to medicine and my interest in people. When I am not working, I can be found hiking, backpacking, or reading science fiction novels. I also collect rare, old books and crochet an afghan from time to time. My twin sister and I plan to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together in the next 5 years. Maybe I’ll get to hike Mount Tahan or Kinabalu while in Malaysia.
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