To help you become better acquainted with new practitioners at the coast, this section provides photos and brief biographical information. The providers are listed under the hospital where they practice. Please feel free to provide us with additional information on new providers that we may add to our website: www.lcbiz.com. New information is included since printing on Dr. George Dueker and Debra Connoway.
Ocean Beach Hospital
Edouard Duret, MD, FACS
Dr. Duret is experienced in general and laparoscopic surgery.
He has teaching, trauma and rural hospital experience and is skilled
in sports medicine. He was awarded outstanding surgical resident
at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Illinois prior to joining the
Ocean Beach staff in February, 1999.
Evangeline Gan, MD
Dr. Gan has completed her residency and is board certified in
both pediatrics and internal medicine. She was the chief resident
at a major affiliate of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Her practice interests are in geriatric and pediatric medicine.
She joined Ocean Beach Hospital in the fall of 1998.
Rakesh
Gaur, MD
Dr. Rakesh Gaur practices out of Ocean Beach Clinic - Klipsan
- and brings a vast experience in oncology, having worked at Fred
Hutchison in Seattle, and been an oncology consultant for Madigan
Hospital. Under his direction, OBH has set up an oncology treatment
center. Ocean Beach Hospital is now able to provide chemotherapy
locally so residents don't have to travel to Seattle, Portland
or Longview for care. Dr. Gaur has been working on the project
since April, 1999 but the chemotherapy clinic has become fully
operational in just the last three months.
Seaside Providence Hospital
Dr.
Dueker received his medical degree from Washington University
in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed his urologyt residency at
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He served on the
Stanford faculty and then practiced urologyt in Monterey, California,
before coming to Oregon. Certified by the American Board of Urology,
Dr. Dueker is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and
a member of the American Urologic Association. He is proficient
in all areas of urology, and has special interest in the prostate,
incontinence, impotence and kidney stone disease. In addition
to standard Urologic surgery, he is practiced in minimally invasive
procedures including laser surgery, microwave thermotherapy and
lithotripsy.
Mitchell
Strauss, MD
Dr. Strauss was born and raised in San Diego, California. After
graduation from the University of California at Santa Barbara,
he attended St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed
his residency at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.
He has extensive training in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery,
and is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
He is also a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
Tillamook County General Hospital.
David Bradburn, MD
Dr. Bradburn received his M.D. from the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. He completed his family practice residency
at Florida Hospital in Orlando and is Board Certified. He
provides a full range of medical services from obstetrics to geriatrics
and has a special interest in fitness and preventive medicine.
He keeps extended hours at TMA, accepts walk-ins and makes house
calls.
Andrew Vincent, MD, FACOG, FACS
Dr. Vincent joined the staff of Coastal Obstetrics and Gynecology
Center on November 1, 1999. He is board certified in OB/GYN and
was in prior practice in Silver City, New Mexico. Dr. Vincent
was born in Valencia, Spain, where he received his education.
He is a graduate of the University of Valencia Medical School,
and came to America for residency training, which he took in Obstetrics
and Gynecology at U.T. Southwestern Medical School in Fort Worth,
Texas and in Anatomic Pathology in Beth Israel Hospital in New
York. He is a fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
1997 and fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1998. He is experienced
in deliveries, surgery and infertility.
Patricia E. McGovern, CNM, MSN
Patricia opened her practice on May 3, 1999 to provide health
services for women of all ages. She will do complete physicals,
PAP smears, breast exams and prenatal care with deliveries at
Tillamook County General Hospital. McGovern is originally from
North Whales, Pennsylvania, and a 1994 graduate of George Washington
University in Washington DC, with a B.S. degree in biology. Following
graduation, she worked in clinical research in gene therapy for
women's cancers at the University of Pennsylvania. In February,
1997, she graduated Columbia University in New York City with
a B.S. degree in nursing, and then sat for her nursing boards.
While in midwifery school (Graduate Columbia University 1998),
McGovern worked as an RN at the Beth Israel Medical Center in
the labor and delivery department, while doing home visits for
a Columbia University research project on chronic asthmatics,
diabetics and hypertensives.
She wrote and passed her national boards in New York, and took
her Integration Service Internship at OHSU in Midwifery.
Arshia Duza Islam, MD
Dr. Islam has a bachelor of medicine and surgery from Dhaka Medical
College in Dhaka, Bangladesh in1993, followed by internship rotations
in pediatrics, psychiatry, dermatology, obstetrics, gynecology,
eclampsia unit, family planning, casualty, surgery, and neurosurgery.
Clinic work was completed at George Washington University Hospital
in Washington DC and she took her residency in internal medicine
at University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, Presbyterian Medical
Center in Philadelphia. She is currently licensed in the State
of Oregon, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and with the Bangladesh
Medical & Dental Council.
Parvez Samiul Islam, MD
Dr. Islam received his bachelor of medicine and surgery from Dhaka
Medical College, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Internship rotations
at DMC included pediatrics, psychiatry, dermatology, emergency
medicine, urology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, orthopedic surgery
obstetrics and gynecology. Clinical work was completed in the
bone marrow transplant unit of Georgetown University Medical Center
in Washington, DC. He took his residency in internal medicine
with the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, Presbyterian
Medical Center in Philadelphia, finishing in 1999.
Clatskanie Clinic
Jean
Allen, MS, ANP
Jean Allen started with Clatskanie Clinic on March 1, 1999. She
is originally from Des Moines, Iowa and received her nursing degree
from Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon in 1979.
By 1993 she had become a nurse practitioner through the University
of Portland and her responsibilities at Clatskanie Clinic is include
adult patients, and geriatric home health clients in Columbia
County.
Carol
Brown, Ph. D., MS, FNP
Carol Brown lives in Richfield, Wash-ington and commutes one day
a week to practice at the Clatskanie Clinic. Other days she teaches
a nurse practitioner program at Washington State University in
Vancouver, Washington. She became a nurse practitioner and ARNP
after completing courses from Oregon Health Sciences University
in 1993. Prior degrees include and MS in maternal Child Nursing
from Loma Linda University in California in 1968 and her Ph. D.
in general education in 1978. She worked from 1993 to 1998 in
a family practice group in Walla Walla, Washington and at a women
and child clinic in Kennewick, Washing-ton. She has been assistant
dean and professor of nursing at Walla Walla College. She started
in September with Clatskanie Clinic.
Renee Jepson, MS, ANP
Renee had an early start with healthcare: her mother began a home-health
hospice in Longview, Washington. Professional schooling started
with her 1996 BS in nursing from Washington State University and
RNFA from Linfield School of Nursing. She earned her RN degree
from Lower Columbia College in Longview in 1981 and her MS as
adult nurse practitioner in 1998. She is currently working on
her family nurse practitioner degree while working part time at
St. Johns Hospital in Longview. She joined Clatskanie Clinic in
1998.
Clatsop Community College
Debra Connoway has joined Clatsop Community College as a medical assisting coordinator/ instructor. Ms. Connoway has served as the executive director of the multicultural HIV/AIDS Alliance of Oregon, and is a nationally certified medical assistant program educator, a member of the American Association of Medical Assistants, and the Oregon Society for Medical Assistants. Connoway was formerly the medical assistant program coordinator for MTC at Tongue Point Job Corps in Astoria and has been an Astoria resident for over 25 years.LCB
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