Pediatric Associates News

Haiti Medical Team

Kelly Jacobson works in our Medical Records department, and has volunteered with Girl Scouts for the past two years. Kelly was a Girl Scout herself for several years. “I had such fond memories of the experience; it was just something we had to do for my daughter.

Pediatric Associates Advice Nurse, Christy Carl, R.N., has served on various non-profit boards for the last thirty years, but is particularly active as the President of the Board of Directors for Milwaukie Academy of the Arts, a public charter school in the Milwaukie School District. Her involvement with the charter school stems from the recognition that not all children are wired for succeeding in traditional book-based learning. For some, learning in a visual or project-based manner is a method which will achieve much greater success.

Annie Cain, Site Manager at Pediatric Associates at the Montgomery Park office, recently participated in the 2012 Ladybug Run which raises awareness for CDH. Pediatric Associates of the Northwest contributed $2000 to sponsor Annie and support the cause of CDH Awareness and Research.

Alayna Patzel, R.N. at Pediatric Associates of the Northwest recently served on a medical team in Guatemala with Cascade Medical Teams. She’d long had an interest in providing medical care to underserved populations, and felt strongly about wanting to help this struggling community in any way she could.

Working as a triage nurse for Pediatric Associates for nearly two decades would be reason enough for Billie Bergman to understand the importance of organ donation. But the reasons for her advocacy of organ donation extend beyond her professional experience: for Billie, organ donation is personal.

If you participated in the Sunday Parkways program this summer, you might have stopped for a drink or a misting at our Hydration Station. Pediatric Associates of the Northwest is proud to partner with the Sunday Parkways program, offering drinking water, cool mist sprinklers, bubbles, and good energy for participants.

Did you know we could run, too?

Like all of us at PANW, the doctors who’ve travelled to treat the people of Haiti strongly believe that health care should be available to all. It’s not a luxury, but a basic human right, like adequate food, clean water, and shelter. We’re drawn to Haiti because of the undeniable, overwhelming needs of this underdeveloped country, and our desires to make a meaningful difference in the world.

While all of the physicians at PANW believe in the value of vaccinations, there’s one among us whose voice and thoughts on the subject might be heard a little more emphatically – or at least a little more frequently. Dr. Jay Rosenbloom.