PEOPLE
Residents, Year Three
Keith De Young, MD (University of Chicago)
Keith De Young, M.D., PGY 2 Keith grew up as a chubby kid in a southern suburb of Chicago and finally dropped the baby fat as a high school wrestler. Following high school Keith studied Sociology at the Ohio State University where he became acquainted with his fiancé Ellen, and Ohio State Buckeye football – both of which he still loves dearly today. During Keith’s time in Columbus, he also worked answering phone calls as a volunteer on a suicide hotline-an experience he will never forget.
Keith’s desire to serve a community and work with underserved populations led him to the University of Chicago for medical school. Four years at the U of C only served to reinforce his belief that a career in family medicine would help him to achieve these goals. Keith chose OHSU for its breadth of training, opportunities for exposure to rural medicine, ties to its community, and great reputation – not to mention that Portland is also a great place to live. During residency Keith looks forward to pursuing his personal interests, which include snowboarding, snowshoeing, hiking, camping, and essentially anything outside. Keith also fancies himself an amateur chef and beer connoisseur. (…fancies himself??)
Kathryn Feuquay, MD, University of Arizona
Kathryn was born in Monterey, California but spent her first twelve years as a Navy brat, moving with her parents between California, Rhode Island, Norfolk, and Washington DC. When Kathryn started Jr. High they were stationed in Pearl Harbor. Kathryn’s father retired a few years later so she had the tough luck of spending her Jr. High and high school years on Oahu.
Kathryn moved to the mainland for college and studied molecular biology at the University of Washington. She considered going into research for a short time but while working part time at a radiology department front desk, she realized that clinical medicine was a better fit for her. Kathryn moved to the dryer climate in Tucson, Arizona for medical school at the University of Arizona. Her years at the U of A blessed her with many things – the chance to learn about new cultures, to volunteer at a free clinic for uninsured and refugee patients, and to meet her husband, Derek, who is starting as an intern in Internal Medicine.
Kathryn settled on Family Medicine after a long journey through nearly every other specialty. However, after realizing how family medicine encompasses the challenges of comprehensive patient care, diverse patient populations, breadth of knowledge, and opportunities for patient education she couldn’t be happy anywhere else. Kathryn was drawn to OHSU because of its strong program and commitment to patients served by the department. Derek and Kathryn are excited to trade in their rock lawn for a grass one in the Pacific Northwest. When not at work they will enjoy hiking, biking, running, and cooking (or at least attempting to cook).
Kathryn (Hervey) Grant, MD, Mayo
Katrina Grant most recently arrives from Rochester, MN, where she finished medical school at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. It was there that she met her brand new husband, Rob, whom she married on May 21, 2006 (the day after graduation!). Though originally from Pasadena, CA, most of her childhood was spent in Punta Arenas, a small Chilean city on the Strait of Magellan. After a brief interlude in the United States, she spent a couple of years in Aktau, Kazakhstan, with her family prior to returning for undergraduate education at the University of Southern California, where she studied Psychobiology and Linguistics, with brief excursions to Yemen and Israel.
Though lacking in international travel lately, she loves learning languages, spending time outside hiking, taking pictures, and breathing fresh air, crocheting, cooking, reading, drinking coffee, jogging, and simply spending time with the people she loves. She and Rob are thrilled to now live in Portland and will be busy exploring ethnic food, trails, and bigger-city culture with whomever wants to join them!
Caroline Orsini, MD, Dartmouth
Caroline grew up in Washington, DC as the oldest of six sisters where she attended a French school from kindergarten through high school. She then headed south to Duke University in North Carolina to study biology. From there it was off to cold Boston to work as a Research Coordinator in bipolar clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Caroline helped run a large-scale NIMH-funded project to study the disorder and the effectiveness of its treatment nationwide. Caroline was sure she wanted to pursue medicine and moved to the beautiful Upper Valley of New Hampshire, where she had often come to play, to attend Dartmouth Medical School.
Caroline’s favorite time in medical school was a trip to rural Honduras with two family medicine doctors. She fell in love with development medicine and the area. Caroline delivered a baby from a mother who would not have been able to make it to the hospital in time, and did her best to treat and educate countless kids and adults about their medical conditions in Spanish. She has no doubt that she will be dedicating time to development medicine in the future. That experience among many other factors convinced Caroline to go into family medicine. She developed a passion for quality primary care with a budding interest in end-of-life care.
Outside of medicine, Caroline is an avid soccer player, mountain biker, rock climber, hiker and snowboarder. In med. school she played on the intramural soccer, softball and ice hockey teams, mountain biked on the trails around Hanover, did some climbing and learned to swing dance. Caroline is very excited to be a resident in Family Medicine at OHSU and hopes to be able to unwind with some of those activities around Portland!
Ryan Petering, MD, East Tennessee State
The first directional change in Ryan’s life came when he moved from Oklahoma to Tennessee as a teenager. Ryan’s career, hobbies, and lifestyle were all greatly influenced by the unique opportunities of the Appalachian region of northeast Tennessee. In high school, he became a member of the National Ski Patrol at Beech Mountain in North Carolina. An outdoor emergency care course was the impetus of Ryan’s medical career. While completing college at East Tennessee State University, his interest in the challenges of providing health care to the underserved and rural populations of East Tennessee grew. Ryan chose to stay at East Tennessee State for medical school, in part because of a Rural Primary Care track that provided opportunities to learn more about community medicine, obstacles to medical care access, primary care research, and small town lifestyles.
Ryan chose Family Medicine for the opportunity to explore many different aspects of community and public health while also focusing on the complete care of individual patients. Ryan completed a fourth year rotation at OHSU and was excited about developing as a physician with the many great people at OHSU. He was most impressed by the vision of the Family Medicine program and the diversity of opportunities for residents. Ryan is excited about beginning the Family Medicine/Preventive program to continue learning more about community medicine, research, and primary care medicine.
Ryan met the love of his life, Laura, at ETSU. She recently completed her Masters in Nursing and is looking forward to begin work as a Nurse Practitioner. Their child is a black and tan coonhound named Junta (from the Phish song, not the Spanish term). Ryan is an avid kayaker and usually spends his free time looking for water. Laura and Ryan are excited about moving to the Northwest and exploring all the cultural, medical, recreational, and new relationship opportunities in Portland and Oregon.
Jonathan Shaw, MD, Harvard
Jonathan was born and raised just outside of Washington DC, in Falls Church, Virginia, where his parents settled on dry land after living on a sailboat. From early childhood on he shared a love of travel and sailing with his family. After graduating from a "Science & Tech" high school, he moved to New Haven for four years of playing Ultimate Frisbee at Yale. There he also pursued a BA in Philosophy. Despite his best efforts to pretend he wasn't pre-med, he was forced to acknowledge that his love of science and the idealistic desire to help people meant medicine was in his future. Meanwhile, summers spent working with Palestinian and Israeli teens at Seeds of Peace Camp fed his international interests and reaffirmed his desire to work across cultures.
After college Jonathan spent 2 years engaged in such disparate activities as sailing with his brother from the Gulf of Mexico to the Chesapeake, traveling to the Middle-East in more peaceful times, and working in health policy in San Francisco. Despite falling in love with the West Coast, he reluctantly headed east to Boston. While at Harvard Medical School, he was involved with AMSA and other subversive types working for residency work-hour reform and for a Pharma-free environment. Highlights of his 5 years included working in healthcare for the homeless, traveling with a human-rights medical mission to Israel and Palestine, and 7 months of clinical work and CDC research in rural Guatemala. Still unsure where all his interests might lead him, Jonathan realized he would likely find his fit in family medicine, with its social consciousness and medical breadth. He is ecstatic to be headed to Portland after 5 years of Boston winters.
Rob Stenger, MD, Johns Hopkins
Rob grew up in Missoula, Montana, where he spent the happy days of his youth climbing trees and playing in the woods. From Missoula, he went to Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, where he studied biochemistry, music, and (most importantly) met his fabulous and talented wife Melodie. After college Rob developed an interest in health policy and spent two years working at a small non-profit in Washington, DC before starting medical school at Johns Hopkins. In all his free time during med school, Rob recorded two CDs of renaissance choral music with his choral group, The Suspicious Cheese Lords. He continued his interest in policy issues by serving on the Administrative Board and eventually as National Chair of the AAMC Organization of Student Representatives. Rob also took a year off during school to complete a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins, focusing on public health practice.
Rob’s interest in family medicine developed gradually during medical school as he recognized the joy he took in building lasting relationships with his patients, taking care of families and counseling patients on disease prevention. He is a true believer in the value of primary care doctors and hopes to pursue a career that combines his interests in primary care, public health and medical education.
Rob and Melodie are thrilled to be moving back to the northwest, and can’t wait to do some work on the new house, get started on their garden and go hiking. Making the move along with them will be MacKenzie the cat and Baby-to-Be Stenger, who should
Christina Stroup, MD, Ben Gurion Unviersity with Columbia University
Christina grew up in the East San Francisco Bay Area in a small town called Martinez. A lively home of two older brothers, her mother and father, Joseine the family goat, Ferdinand the resident cow, Cracker Jacks and Cindy whom provided countless afternoons of horseback adventure in the local hills, Benji as well as many other creatures all settled in the contrasting backdrop of Shell Oil Refinery. It is here where Christina's ideals sprouted and grew: a love for nature and adventure, an appreciation for organic garden vegetables, and a fighting spirit toward societal progress and respect for our vulnerable environment. All of this culminated into a web of educational and travel experiences.
She attended UC Davis for her undergraduate degree in Physiology, Teachers College, Columbia University to complete an MS in Nutrition Education, and continuing east she attended the Medical School for International Health in collaboration with Columbia University in Beer Sheva, Israel. Woven between and within her formal educational experiences Christina traveled and worked in Tanzania, East Africa with a mobile health clinic as well as with a local street children's center. Backpacking throughout the west coast and traveling in several countries Christina aimed to enrich her understanding of people and culture. Having had extensive personal experience throughout her life with physicians and health practitioners of myriad philosophies in healing and treatment modalities, Christina began to see herself in the role of helping to create a union between, at the time, seemingly contrasting practices. Her formal education, informal studies of people and culture, a love for science, and a personal interest in complementary and alternative medicine brings her to the field of family medicine. She is thrilled to be joining OHSU and the community of Portland.
She will be moving to Portland with her boyfriend, Yoni, and her cats, Elsie Marmalade and Dante (for which have been promised no more moves across continents!). Yoni is a Beer Sheva native and has a passion (I think it is fair to say- a love) for math and engineering and plans to do graduate studies in biomedical engineering. Elsie is a master of fine arts and luxuriousness and Dante is a world class spy. They are very excited to be starting a life together in the lush and beautiful northwest.
Tom Warrington, MD, Mayo
Tom grew up in the small town of Red Wing, Minnesota on the banks of the Mississippi River and spent much of his childhood outside exploring, rock climbing, biking, camping, kayaking, and cross country skiing. Tom’s college years were spent at St. John’s University, a small liberal arts college in central Minnesota, home to one of the largest Monastic communities in the world and boasting a giant rat as its mascot. More importantly St. John’s is the brother school to the College of St. Benedict which happened to be where Anne, Tom’s wife, attended college.
Tom was the classic biology/chemistry premed student and spent far too many hours in the lab but managed to play plenty of ultimate Frisbee, serve as a resident assistant, and plan some spring break service trips on the side. Tom’s medical education has been in the metropolis (80,000 pop.) of Rochester, Minnesota at Mayo. Tom has been “Family Medicine” since arriving at Mayo and has been recruiting ever since.
Elisa Wilson, MD, OHSU
Elisa was born outside of Seattle, but moved eastward to Charlottesville, Virginia, only to find herself back on the West Coast twenty years later! After graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in Psychology, she set out on her second cross-country trip (this time to Oregon), and has been here ever since.
She first moved to Gold Beach on the remote southern coast, where she worked as a VISTA volunteer to develop a statewide childhood immunization registry. From there, she wandered up to Portland where she coordinated a peer-education HIV prevention program for African-American and Latina women. After toying with the idea of obtaining an MD or an MPH, she was lucky to find OHSU’s joint MD/MPH program which allowed her to pursue her combined interests in community/underserved medicine and epidemiology. During medical school, she went to Kenya to research palliative care needs of rural terminally ill Kenyans. Her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics culminated in a thesis that investigated the use of accelerated DTaP vaccinations during pertussis outbreaks. Elisa enjoyed her first five years at OHSU, and is looking forward to three more years of working with OHSU’s inspiring and innovative Family Medicine faculty and residents. Her primary interests are in maternal/child health, underserved care, and cross-cultural medicine, and feels lucky to be able to do all of this and more as a Family Physician.
Outside of medicine, Elisa enjoys cooking, gardening, bicycling, hiking, playing outside, discovering new house projects, and spending time with her fiancé, Doran, who is an MD/PhD student at OHSU.
Daisuke Yamashita, MD, Shinshu Daigaku Igakubu, Japan
Daisuke was born in Tokyo but moved to a small island called Saipan in Micronesia with his family when he was 6 months old. Most of his fundamental personality was molded by lots of sunshine and friendly neighbors on the island. Daisuke’s family moved back to Tokyo when he was four years old and it was at that time he experienced reverse culture shock. Daisuke was so used to outdoor kindergarten on the beach, almost naked, that he was not used to spending time indoors with a nice shirt. After high school Daisuke started medical school at Shinshu University in Nagano. (Where they held Winter Olympics!) Nagano is a beautiful place and very similar to Oregon with mountains and rivers. It is part of the reason Daisuke fell in love with Portland. During medical school, Daisuke met an American family doctor who introduced him to the specialty of Family Medicine, which was not well established in Japan at that time.
After medical school Daisuke spent three years rotating at two different hospitals where specialists provided most of the care. This experience led him to realize the importance of primary care in medicine and made him choose Family Medicine as his carrier. In the past year, Daisuke has been working at the Family Medicine clinic in northern Tokyo with a self-taught family doctor. Daisuke decide to come to the US to broaden his clinical skills in the full-scope family medicine environment and to learn about training and teaching in Family Medicine to bring back to Japan. Daisuke has many interests in medicine including faculty development, women’s health, home visits, behavioral science, theoretical background of Family Medicine, international networking, community-oriented primary care.
Outside medicine, Daisuke enjoys cooking, bicycling, repairing bicycles, playing and listening to music. He would like to appreciate all the precious encounters, which led him to choose family medicine and OHSU. Daisuke is thrilled to be part of the wonderful group of people in OHSU Family Medicine and he’s am looking forward to learning and exploring in the new environment.
Kimberly Young, MD, Stanford
Kim comes to Portland with pink rain boots (in anticipation of puddle jumping during rainy walks), tennis shoes (for rallies with new friends), dancing shoes, flip-flops, and new clogs. She grew up in Colorado and loves to be with her parents and two younger brothers (both of whom have become big brothers as they tower over her). She has spent the last ten years in California as a Stanford undergraduate and medical student- with some time to explore and enjoy life at the end of each. In her undergraduate Human Biology studies, she appreciated learning from innovative opportunities and interesting people in her interdisciplinary concentration of “Human Motivation and Group Dynamics in Organizations.” Kim continued to enjoy Stanford’s flexibility as a medical student traveling to provide medical care for people after the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina and having an opportunity to write about those experiences.
Even though the Bay Area is a difficult place for her to leave and she would love to be closer to her family’s humor and tennis games, Kim feels very lucky to have found a place with water and mountains, a strong family medicine academic program, and nice people. She very much looks forward to becoming a family physician at OHSU. Sports medicine and integrative approaches to health and well-being are of particular interest to Kim. Sports medicine seems to be a natural consequence of spending a large part of her childhood with the injuries of an elite gymnast. Even though flips are no longer part of her daily routine, she continues to be drawn to movement and the musculoskeletal system. Her interest in integrative medicine began with a dad who thought creatively enough to take a 12-year-old to an acupuncturist for a stubborn tendonitis and has continued- many acupuncturists, nutritionists, conferences, and jobs later- to grow with her desire to care for people in their entirety.
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