Michael Hendricks' medical career spawned from a background in psychology and cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley. He
subsequently completed post-baccalaureate coursework and medical school at the University of Southern California. After two years of radiology residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical School, he desired more direct patient interaction than afforded reading Xrays in the dark, and he transferred to OHSU to complete a residency within the Internal Medicine Department. Upon graduation, he remained on staff as an academic hospitalist, with a focus on resident instruction of bedside procedures, cost-conscious practice, and fine arts/humanities in medicine. In his leisure time, he typically travels abroad, practices art, cooks and collects comics and classic vinyl kaiju toys.