October 26-28, 2023 Salem Convention Center 

James Anstey is a Hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He graduated from medical school at OHSU in 2015. He went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF where he also completed a fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine. He holds roles as a School of Medicine Academic Advisor, UME Prematriculation Block Director, and Director of the Resident and Student Procedural POCUS Curriculum. His interests are Medical Education, Academic Advising and Mentorship in the School of Medicine, as well as Point of Care Ultrasound and Bedside Procedures. 

A native of Missoula, MT, Dr. Bell has practiced neurology in Bend since August 2007. He attended medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University followed by neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr. Bell enjoys caring for diverse neurologic problems, but has additional fellowship training in caring for adults and children with epilepsy (seizure disorders). Other interests include: movement disorders (such as Parkinson’s, tremors, and gait disorders), headache, dementia, vertigo, neuro-oncology, stroke, and nerve conduction studies/EMG. 

Dr. Bell’s accomplishments include serving as the Chief Resident in neurology at Mayo Clinic, the Woltman Award for Clinical Neurology (Mayo’s highest clinical award for a graduating neurology resident), and he was awarded an excellence in teaching award as a resident. During his training, he was active in medical student education, including a 6 week stint teaching the Mayo Clinic medical student neuroscience course. As a fellow at Mayo, he achieved the rank of assistant professor. Dr. Bell has published numerous peer reviewed articles and a book chapter. He has presented his research at several national neurology and epilepsy conferences. In Bend, he remains active in medical student education. Dr. Bell is board certified in neurology. 

Above all, Dr. Bell enjoys the practice of clinical neurology. He prides himself on offering the best of care for every patient, treating each patient as he would a family member. Patient education is a particular interest, as he aims to empower patients to face illness with knowledge and understanding. 

Dr. Sue Bornstein is an internal medicine physician who serves as the Executive Director of the Texas Medical Home Initiative and Co-Lead of the Texas Primary Care Consortium. The Texas Primary Care Consortium is a statewide collaborative initiative with a mission to advance equitable, comprehensive, and sustainable primary care for all Texans. 

She is a native of Dallas, Texas who now resides on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country.  Sue earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and completed medical school at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. 

Dr. Bornstein is Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians. She has previously been Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee and has also chaired the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the ACP. Sue was ACP Governor for the Texas Northern Region from 2013-2017.  Sue is Vice-Chair of the ACP’s delegation to the American Medical Association.  She serves as ACP representative to the Steering Committee of the Firearm Injury Prevention Coalition. 

Sue is a recipient of the Texas Tech School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Dallas County Medical Society’s Charles Max Cole Leadership Award and the Primary Care Collaborative’s Primary Care Community Leadership/Research Award. She is a Texas ACP Chapter Laureate and received the Texas ACP’s inaugural Bluebonnet Women in Medicine Award in 2022. Sue was awarded Mastership in ACP in 2022. 

Dr. Joel Burnett is an internal medicine physician. He chose internal medicine because it involves whole-person care including long-term relationships with patients and partnering with patients to set and meet health goals. He enjoys practicing internal medicine because of the relationships he shares with his patients and because of the satisfaction of solving challenging diagnostic problems. 

In addition to caring for patients, Dr. Burnett enjoys teaching medical students and residents to care and advocate for patients. 

Outside of work, Dr. Burnett enjoys reading, exploring the Oregon outdoors, and spending time with his family. 

Dr. Martha Carlson is a Licensed Psychologist who has made a career working with the Veteran Population since 2004. her specialties are suicide prevention, trauma treatment, couples therapy, and substance abuse treatment. Dr. Carlson spent 10 years at the San Diego VA and benefitted from working with many different programs.

At the Bay Pines VA in Florida, Dr. Carlson developed a sleeping disorders treatment and couples therapy groups. In Milwaukee, Dr. Carlson was the Program Manager for the MHRRTP program. Dr. Carlson is currently the program manager of the Suicide Prevention Team at the VA Portland.

I grew up on a small farm in rural Oregon, raising sheep and cattle. I moved to Cleveland, Ohio, for college at Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland winters were a great motivation to explore other parts of the world. In Kenya, I helped establish an HIV-testing program. After college I dedicated myself to combating illness and inequity in my own community as a Public Health Associate for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assigned to the Marion County Health Department in Salem, Oregon. After working for the CDC, I attended medical school at Vanderbilt University and pursued a Master’s of Public Health at Harvard. I completed my residency in internal medicine through the University of Washington in Boise, Idaho. 

Internal medicine brings together the strong work ethic and love for learning that was ingrained in me by my rural upbringing, along with the knowledge and drive for social justice I have chosen to foster in myself. My public health background helps me provide superior clinical care, and to better understand and appreciate the social determinants of health to best advocate for my patients. Being a physician at Kaiser Permanente empowers me to advocate for the health of my patients and my community. 

Dr. Ted Huang is an oncologist in Portland, OR and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including legacy Emanual Medical Center and Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and has been in practice nearly 20 years.  

I am originally from New York and studied hospitality management at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. After a brief stint in corporate real estate finance, I made the decision to change focus and devote my life to health care. I lived in Lima, Peru, for 2 years, working for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement rapid diagnostic testing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. I then returned to the United States and received my medical degree from the Weill Cornell Medical College. I completed my residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellowship in Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. I am currently an attending physician at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, OR where I also train and educate Urogynecology fellows through a joint fellowship program with the Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr. Iossi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at OHSU and is a General Internal Medicine Primary Care Physician at the Portland VA.  She is a teacher and core faculty member in the Internal Medicine residency program (and former Associate Program Director) and a Communications Coach with the OHSU Center for Ethics in Healthcare.  She comes to this work through the lens of a VA PCP, as a citizen concerned about firearm injury and violence in our country, and as an educator working to empower learners to speak with patients about topics that can feel challenging in order to improve individual and public health.   

Hometown: Woodland Hills, California BS in biology UCLA (1988) MD at Dartmouth (1992) Completed residency at UCLA/Olive View IM program (1995) Chief Medical Resident at UCLA/Olive View (1995-1996) Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA (1996-2005) Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU (2005-2007) Associate Program Director at Legacy Health IM program (2007 – current) I enjoy evidence-based teaching on core topics of internal medicine including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, among others.

Dr. D Randolph Randy Jones, MD is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist in Portland, OR and has over 26 years of experience in the medical field. They graduated from UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON in 1996. They are affiliated with medical facilities such as Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and Providence Milwaukie Hospital. 

Dr. Sonam Kiwalkar earned her medical degree in Pune, India. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York. She completed her rheumatology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She is a rheumatologist at the Vancouver Clinic and is the Associate Program Director for Legacy Salmon Creek internal medicine residency program. Apart from that, she is also pursuing a Masters in Education for Health Professionals at Johns Hopkins University. In her spare time, Dr. Kiwalkar loves cooking and hiking around the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughter. 

Dr. Purnell is board certified in Endocrinologist and Obesity Medicine who sees patients with obesity, diabetes, and lipid disorders at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR.  

His work as a physician scientist focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of obesity, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, and diabetes in humans.  Early studies explored relationships between fat distribution and risk for cardiovascular disease and insulin resistance in type 1 diabetes and in non-diabetic patients with obesity and during aging.  This led to nutritional intervention studies testing the effects of diets of differing macronutrient content (fat, carbohydrate, and protein) and bariatric surgery on hormonal signals that determine appetite and body weight.  Recently work includes using advanced imaging techniques to understand how the brain responds to changes in diet and weight regulatory hormones and metabolic studies of pregnant women to learn more about how maternal nutrition, obesity, and diabetes affects the health of the placenta and baby.    

Dr. Purnell is a member of the American Physiology Society, The Endocrine Society, The Obesity Society, The American Federation of Medical Research, and The American Diabetes Association. 

Alex Schafir has been caring for patients and teaching residents since 1993, mostly at Prov. St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR. Some clinical passions include agenda-setting, somatization in primary care, and helping residents to embrace their own roles as teachers and team-leaders.

Eleasa Sokolski is an addiction medicine specialist and psychiatrist at Oregon Health and Science University. She works as part of the inpatient addiction medicine consult service and also sees outpatients for general psychiatry in the OHSU internal medicine clinic. She previously completed a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency at UC Davis, followed by an addiction medicine fellowship at OHSU. Her professional interests include medical education and treatment of co-occurring disorders.

Lynda Tang, DO is a Palliative Medicine physician, Medical Director of Communication and BALINT facilitator at Vancouver Clinic.  She also serves as Faculty and Co-Director of Faculty-in-Training at the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH).  Dr. Tang is a certified instructor of Relationship Centered Communication (RCC) for ACH and Ariadne Lab’s Serious Illness Conversation Guide for Washington State Medical Association Honoring Choices advance care planning program. 

Originally from the East coast, she moved to the beautiful Pacific NW town of Vancouver, WA in 2015.  She attended college at the University of Virginia and obtained a BA in English Literature before earning her Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine at the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, VA.  She completed residency in Family Medicine at United Health Services Wilson Medical Center in upstate New York followed by fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.   

Vancouver Clinic (VC) is a large multispecialty outpatient clinic and with Dr. Tang’s leadership developed the RCC training workshops for clinicians in 2018 across the organization.  In 2020 VC created the DEI committee for which Dr. Tang holds an active seat developing and supporting communication trainings on bias, microaggression, allyship and personal awareness.  Dr. Tang’s dream is to “retire into” teaching, coaching and facilitating communication skills for medical professionals.   

Dr Wolf earned her undergraduate degree in molecular biology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She obtained her medical degree at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. Her internal medicine residency and chief resident year were completed at Legacy Health Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Endocrinology fellowship was completed at Oregon Health and Sciences University.  

Dr. Wolf was born and raised in Michigan but moved to Portland in 2002 for her residency. She has happily lived here ever since and likes spending time with her husband and two children. She’s an avid runner and cook. 

Dr. Regina Won, MD is an infectious disease specialist in Vancouver, WA and has over 15 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO / COLLEGE OF MEDICINE in 2007. She is affiliated with medical facilities such as Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center and OHSU Hospital – Marquam Hill Campus. Her office accepts telehealth appointments.