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Faculty, Gabriel Park
Mark Bajorek, MD
Assistant Professor
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Mark earned his M.D. from Ohio State University, spent his residency at the University of Michigan and completed a fellowship in primary care teaching and research at Michigan State University. Dr. Bajorek was certified in family practice in 1989 and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. He practices at Gabriel Park Family Health Center. He spends his free time swimming, painting and landscaping.
Fran Biagioli, MD
Associate Professor, Medical Director, Associate Residency Director
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Fran is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, and completed her residency at Oregon Health Sciences University.
She has been an Assistant Professor and Clinician Teacher at Gabriel Park Family Health Center since January, 2000. As of June, 2006, Fran was promoted to Associate Professor and is Medical Director of OHSU Family Medicine at Gabriel Park and Associate Residency Director.
Her professional interests include: sports medicine, adolescent medicine, gynecology, and wilderness medicine, and she enjoys outdoor sports, photography, carving and sewing in her spare time.
Jennifer Donohue, MD
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Donohue received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1988. In 1991 she finished her residency at the University of Wisconsin, Department of Family Medicine. She has experience working in health care facilities from Maine to California and has particular interests in children's health and diabetes management.
Currently Dr. Donohue serves as Assistant Professor at the Gabriel Park Family Health Center.
She and her family enjoy huckleberry picking and camping trips, and are active in community activities.
Frank D. Dornfest, MD
Associate Professor
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Dr. Dornfest is a family physician/academician who practices the full scope of family practice. He has an added interest and experience in procedures in family practice (including the diagnosis and management of abnormal pap smears, precancerous conditions of the cervix, colposcopy and LEEP treatment for precancerous conditions of the cervix) the doctor-patient relationship, terminal and comfort care. Dr. Dornfest was trained in South Africa, but has practiced in the United States since 1981. He has served as clinical professor at four universities and been recognized for his work in graduate education as a director of three family practice residency training programs, by election to president of the National Association of Family Practice Residency and two national awards for Innovation in Curriculum Design, and for his work on the doctor-patient relationship nationally and internationally serving as president of the International Balint Federation of 28 countries. He has been president and CEO of two large medical practice groups, published widely in the field of Family Practice and given more than 200 invited presentations.
Dr. Dornfest joined OHSU Family Medicine in 2003 as Adjunct Associate Professor and Clinic Director of OHSU Family Medicine at Gabriel Park.
L.J. Fagnan, MD
Associate Professor, Network Director of Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network
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Lyle J. (L.J.) Fagnan, M.D. is the director of the OHSU – Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network that was formed in 2002. LJ joined the Department of Family Medicine at OHSU in 1993 and until 2002 he served as the Medical Director and Education Director of the Gabriel Park Family Health Center, an OHSU neighborhood health care facility where he maintains a clinical practice. He was also the Medical Director for the PA Program at OHSU from 1998 to 2002. Dr. Fagnan is an Associate Professor within the Department of Family Medicine at OHSU. He was named the 2005 Oregon Family Doctor of the Year by the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians.
Early in his career LJ served as a General Medical Officer and the Community Health Director for the United States Public Health Service, Indian Health Service branch, in Bethel, Alaska. Prior to joining the medical school faculty in 1993 he settled in the Oregon coastal community of Reedsport and founded Dunes Family Health Care where he practiced for 16 years. His family practice was one of thirteen model practices selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Rural Practice Program. Dr. Fagnan’s practice in Reedsport grew to include six family physicians and continues as one of the pioneer teaching sites for third year medical students in the OHSU School of Medicine Rural Health Clerkship.
L.J. is married with two children. His interests outside of medicine include travel, bird watching and fly fishing.
Roger Garvin, MD
Director of OHSU Family Medicine Residency
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Roger received his medical degree from Oregon Health and Science University in 1985. He completed his residency at Family Medicine Spokane and practiced 8 years of full spectrum care in a small town in Eastern Washington. He then spent 11 years on the faculty of the Spokane Family Medicine residency and completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of Washington.
Dr Garvin is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine, a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine.
He now serves as the Family Medicine Residency Director.
Roger was born and raised in Oregon and enjoys bike touring with his family, running, cooking and reading.
Nancy Gordon-Zwerling, FNP, MS
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Nancy received her master of science degree in nursing education from Boston College in 1975. She has been a nurse practitioner since 1976, when she graduated with her FNP from the University of Vermont. She has extensive experience as a board-certified family nurse practitioner, working with people of all ages with an emphasis in pediatrics, adolescent care, obstetrics, women's health and wellness.
Nancy has been working as an Instructor and family nurse practitioner with OHSU since 1997. Currently, she sees patients at OHSU Family Medicine at Gabriel Park.
Nancy and her husband enjoy spending time with their two children. Additionally, she enjoys exercising, art projects, travel and the theater.
Ellen Iwasaki, FNP
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Ellen received her B.S. in nursing from the University of Portland and her M.S. in nursing from OHSU in 1991. She is nationally certified as a family nurse practitioner specializing in the primary health care of individuals from newborns to senior adults. She practices at OHSU Family Health at Gabriel Park.
Ellen enjoys playing the piano, traveling, hiking, and spending free time with her husband and son.
Cynthia Shaff-Chin, MD
Integrative Medicine Fellow
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Cynthia grew up in the university agricultural town of Davis, California and received her BA in music from University of California at Berkeley as a classical flutist. She was awarded a fellowship to study with Leone Buyse in Ann Arbor Michigan, and it was during this postgraduate year that she decided to pursue medicine as a career instead of music. (this is a long story) During the few years that followed of premedical coursework, she worked with gourmet foods at Zingerman’s Delicatessen, where she met her husband Pete Chin. They moved to Michigan State for medical school, where Pete worked as a network administrator.
They love to cook, mountain bike, fix their old house and do anything outdoors, but recently have been all-consumed by their delightful new daughter Sophie, born February 23, 2003. They are thrilled to be moving to Portland to be near Cynthia’s family, the Pacific and the mountains.
Ariel Smits, MD
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Smits received her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She did her family medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University from 1999-2002 and received a Masters in Public Health from Portland State University in 2003.
She is clinical instructor for OHSU Family Medicine at Gabriel Park. Her clinical interests are Women`s health, preventive care in the primary care setting.
Originally from Michigan, Dr. Smits enjoys hiking, needlework, gardening and cats.
Ann Tseng, MD
Instructor
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Dr. Tseng graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2003. She completed her residency in family medicine at the New York Presbyterian-Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in 2006. She has a special interest in underserved populations, having done clinical work with the Indian Health Service in Alaska, Arizona, and South Dakota and internationally in the Dominican Republic. She has also organized multiple clinical experiences for medical students in rural Mexico.
Dr. Tseng's other medical interests include developmental pediatrics and adolescent medicine. She will see patients at OHSU Family Medicine at Gabriel Park.
In her spare time, Dr. Tseng enjoys traveling and looks forward to exploring the Pacific Northwest.
David Wagner, MD
Assistant Professor
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David received his medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in 1967. He was in private practice in the Portland area before joining OHSU in 1999. He is an Assistant Professor, and Clinician Teacher at the Gabriel Park Family Health Center.
He enjoys tennis, fishing, and gardening.
Eric Wall, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor
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Eric Wall received his M.D. in 1977 from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Miami in 1980. He completed a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Washington, Department of Family Medicine, and in 1982 received a master's degree in public health from the University of Washington's School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Dr. Wall was assistant professor of family medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and associate director of research at San Bernadino County Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program, from 1982 - 1985. He served as the department's director of research at OHSU from 1985 to 1995. He is currently medical director of Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon and Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska and works with residents at the Gabriel Park Family Health Center. He has written about continuity of care, clinical decision making, obstetrical risk assessment, practice guidelines and health policy, and the assessment of obstetrical risk in family medicine.
Eric is a diplomate of the American Board of family Practice, The American College of Physician Executives, the American Public Health Association and a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the North American Primary Care Research Group, the Society for Medical Decision Making, the American Public Health Association and the American and Oregon Academies of Family Physicians. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice.
In 1992-93, Eric was an alternate in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program and the AAFP Senior Scholar in Residence at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
In his all-too-infrequent spare time, Eric enjoys listening and playing blues and jazz guitar, gardening, small-boat sailing on the Willamette River, cross-country skiing, wine-tasting in Oregon's great vineyards and reading science fiction and mysteries.
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