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“I like to treat the patient as a whole remembering that the body is a system, and we should not take one part of the body out of context of the rest.”
Dr. Grunkemeier graduated from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He completed his internship and residency at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Dr. Grunkemeier later completed his gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He also completed a subsequent advanced fellowship in inflammatory bowel disease also at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Grunkemeier brings The Oregon Clinic Gastroenterology West several honors and awards, including the APA Research Travel Award. He was also awarded the Excellence in Presentation of a Scholarly Paper Research Symposium for Science from UCSD three consecutive years.
Other Activities
Member, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
Member, American College of Gastroenterology
Member, American Gastroenterological Association
Member, American College of Physicians
Member, Oregon Medical Association
Member, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America NW Chapter Medical Advisory Committee
Areas of Focus
Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Colorectal Cancer
Hepatology & Liver Disease
Celiac Disease
Research
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Clinical Instructor, Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007
Advanced Fellowship, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007
Fellowship, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006
Internship and Residency, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2003
MD, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2000
BS, Microbiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1996
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Gastroenterology
LEADERSHIP
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, The Oregon Clinic Gastroenterology West
HONORS
Excellence in Presentation of a Scholarly Paper at Research Symposium for Science, UCSD 1993, 1994, 1995 Provost Honors List 1994, 1995
Recipient of Wyeth-Ayerst Fellowship Grant for participation in DDW 2000
Recipient of APA Research Travel Award, November 2005
Portland Monthly Magazine, “Top Doctors,” 2015
Locations
Hospitals Served
- Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
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