I’m dedicated to investigating orthopedics and sports medicine as an applied science, to help you solve your problems with the best available strategies.
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All my training, experience, and accolades have been towards one goal: to be the best at solving your physical health and performance challenges. That’s the essence of an applied science, to solve real people’s problems with the best available evidence, strategies, and intervention. I am a double board-certified clinical specialist (Orthopedics and Sports) aiming to be the conduit through which all this accumulated industry knowledge is simplified into a strategy. I have been the recipient of a traveling fellowship to the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Ohio State University sports medicine departments. I teach in the University of Portland’s Anatomy Lab and previously in Pacific University’s DPT program. I also currently enjoy coaching Strength and Conditioning classes, olympic lifting, and programming for many to augment their sport training and balance training loads.
Raised in Washington tulip country, humbled during 5 years of commercial fishing in Alaska, and trained by some of the leaders in this field, I bring a diversity of personal experiences and unique interpersonal investment to my clinical practice. After graduating from the University of Portland with a degree in Biochemistry, I received a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Columbia University and participated on the medical school’s rugby team. While recovering from my childhood weight insecurity, injuries, aches, and pains, I have observed that people are not just muscles and bones, but complex individuals with goals, expectations, social needs, and anxieties. We truly deliver healthcare through a bio/psycho/social model. In short: wherever your ailment is coming from, I get it. I can meet you there, and make a plan to move you forward.
I’m your neighbor, I’m part of this community, I’ll see you late night for a steak salad at Slims or early the next morning on the trails of Forest Park trails. I spend time with my patients and get them better faster.
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- First Career: Commercial Salmon Seining, Kodiak Alaska, F/V Kulshan, 2008-12
- Deck Hand, Deck Boss, Engineer, Cook
- First Degree: BS Biochemstriy, University of Portland
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- Second Degree: Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Columbia University
- Class President
- Columbia Graduate Council Member
- Orthopedic Specialty Tract
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- Board Certifications/Professional Membership
- Board Certified Physical Therapist, OR license
- Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopedics
- Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Sports
- Emergency Medical Responder
- National APTA, Oregon APTA, Orthopedics and Sports Section Member
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- Traveling Fellowship Recipient – APTA Sports Section
- Ohio State Sports Medicine
- Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine, Twins, Timberwolves, Lynx
- Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine, Cavaliers
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- Side Hustle 1: Strength and Conditiioning Coach, PDXstrength
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- Side Hustle 2: Anatomy Lab Adjunct Instructor, University of Portland