I am the oldest of five children raised in St Louis, Missouri. My father was a Lutheran minister and my mother was a stay at home mom. During residency, I met and married Dr. Maria Constien, who is a pediatrician for Kaiser Permanente at the Mt. Scott Medical Office. For the first six and a half years of my career, I practiced in a small town in North Carolina, followed by 16 years of private practice in east Portland. I joined Kaiser Permanente in 2004, at first working part-time in the urgent care setting and then switching to full-time family practice at the Mt. Scott Medical Office starting in 2006. Life has been busy raising four sons, maintaining a full time medical practice and participating in scouting and church activities.