About the Author

Gregg Coodley graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Economics in what was practically the Dark Ages i.e. 1981. He attended the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine before going to do a residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts. In 1990 he joined the faculty at the Oregon Health Sciences University eventually becoming Chair, University Section, General Internal Medicine. For some odd reason, he received an award for Teaching and one for Humanism at OHSU. 

In 1997 he left OHSU to help found the Fanno Creek Clinic in SW Portland. Coodley serves as the Manager and works as a primary care physician. The Clinic received the Portland Small Business Award and is noted for trying to support local schools, having solar power on the roof and taking Medicare and Medicaid patients.  The Clinic has seen over 66,000 patients over the last quarter century.

Coodley has five children who have dispersed across the country. He lives with his wife and collie in Southwest Portland.   Besides extensive medical publications, Coodley is the author of 6 histories and 2 middle school fantasy adventure books. Coodley has worked as a short order cook, camp counselor, chicken farmer, waiter, Union president and professor before his current jobs as a primary care doctor and small business owner.