After moving around to several small Midwestern towns as a kid, my family finally settled down just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I attended Grinnell College in Iowa, where I studied Chinese and Biochemistry, met my future wife Paige, and had my first experiences with medicine and public health while volunteering at the local free clinic. From there we moved to Nanjing, China to teach English for a year, and then to Portland, Oregon, where I worked in a research lab at OHSU and fell in love with the scenery, weather and culture of the Pacific Northwest. We decided to return to Wisconsin for medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, but having married an Oregonian I had to promise we would ultimately come back to the Northwest (and needed no convincing to do so). I plan to use my skills as a family physician to work with diverse, medically-underserved populations in the urban setting. I am also aware that good medical care is just one part of what makes communities healthy, so I pursued a Master of Public Health degree to learn how to address community-level factors that lead to health, with a focus on improving access to green space for underserved communities. In my free time you can find me getting outdoors with my son Ralph, baking bread, playing banjo or searching for the perfect IPA.