The presenter for this educational webinar is Lyle “L.J.” Fagnan, MD, Director, ORPRN.
Dr. Fagnan received his medical degree from the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. He completed his residency training at the University of Washington Family Practice Residency of Southwest Idaho and has been board certified in Family Medicine since 1977. Dr. Fagnan founded a medical clinic in the rural community of Reedsport, Oregon, which was one of the 13 model rural practices funded by the Robert Johnson Foundation’s Rural Practice Project. Later he and the clinic were part of the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN), a national practice based-research network. Dr. Fagnan joined the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University in 1993 as medical director of OHSU Gabriel Park Family Health Center and is an associate professor of family medicine. In 2002, Dr. Fagnan was named as Director of the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network. Dr. Fagnan is the PI of several ORPRN studies, including: Evidence-Based Practices: An Opportunity to Prevent Behavioral Health Disorders; the National Children’s Study PBRN pilot; the Clinical Information Study; Primary Care Network Survey I and II; and the Rural Clerkship Project. He is also a co-investigator on several active ORPRN studies, including: Osteoporosis Screening in Rural Oregon and the Rural Oregon Immunization Initiative.
