MICHAL R. BRENNAN, D.O., ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

As Associate Director of the Residency at the Puyallup site, it was a pleasure to welcome our ninth class of R1’s this July. I was born and raised in “Colorful Colorado”. I received my osteopathic medical degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Iowa after completing a Master’s Degree in Colorado. I completed eight years in the U.S. Army, stationed in Washington. The first three years were spent in residency training, the remainder on the faculty of a large family medicine residency as the Chief of the Family Practice Clinic. My military experience was varied and included a Tropical Medicine course in Panama, a six month stretch in Honduras doing tropical medicine, and a trip to the former Soviet Union in support of the Intermediate Nuclear Range Missile Treaty (INF) among others. I completed the Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Washington. My interests lie in community family practice with an emphasis on procedural training and musculo-skeletal medicine to include Osteopathic manipulative procedures. My wife Nancy is in education and continues to “educate” me. We have a teenage daughter and a twenty year old son who is in the U.S. Navy.

MARJORIE E. KRABBE, M.D.

I joined the faculty at Puyallup Valley Family Practice Center in June, 2000. Having graduated from the Puyallup satellite of Tacoma Family Medicine in 1997, I’ve been so pleased to return to the program. I completed my undergraduate and medical studies at the University of California, Davis. After my residency, I worked as an employed physician in a busy family practice clinic in Puyallup, doing full spectrum family medicine. Practice management issues took on new meaning to me. I now try to focus on these issues for residents to help them prepare for the real world. I currently coordinate the gynecology and dermatology curricula for the residency. My areas of interest include sports medicine and gay and lesbian health care. I hope to expand y skills in mind-body medicine, exploring ways we can create wellness through intentional practices such as meditation, yoga and spirituality.

ANDREW MARK THOMPSON, M.D.

I joined the faculty of the Puyallup Valley Family Practice Clinic in September, 1996 following many years of practice with the military, most recently as Staff Family Physician at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. I am ABFP certified and graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. I completed my Family Practice Residency training at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI and a Faculty Development Fellowship at Madigan Army Medical Center. I was Residency Training Director in the Department of Family Practice at Madigan from 1986-1991. My wife Susan and I have two children.