NEOAHEC Newsletter Articles, Stories of Impact, Annual Reports, & More

Mike Hetrick was a NEOAHEC board member from 2018 to 2024. He is a retired pediatrician and health informatics officer.

Patty Barfield was a NEOAHEC board member from 2018 to 2024. She is the Campus Associate Dean for the OHSU School of Nursing in La Grande and the Regional Associate Dean for the OHSU Campus for Rural Health.

NEOAHEC is building a robust simulation program that prepares healthcare students and professionals and for high-risk real-life medical scenarios.

NEOAHEC is celebrating National Rural Health Day! Rural communities are wonderful places to live and work, which is why nearly 61 million people call them home.

Investigators of Science—a STEM day-camp for middle school students hosted by Northeast Oregon Area Health Education Center (NEOAHEC) and Eastern Oregon University (EOU)—held its 2024 event at the EOU campus on November 2, 2024.

Between delivering babies, tending to patients of all ages, performing endoscopies, volunteering as an EMT, serving as a medical examiner, directing a small clinic in Heppner, having involvement with the Oregon Medical Association (OMA) and Oregon Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP), and working on his family ranch one day a week, Dr. Defrees does it all.

For Ahnica Shoemaker, an Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing student, being homeschooled didn’t mean that she and her five siblings spent all their time at home. Her family has worked diligently to complement homeschool education with diverse hands-on experiences, including NEOAHEC's MedQuest.

Northeast Oregon AHEC's MedQuest camp has been serving eastern Oregon for 30 Years.

Meet our newest NEOAHEC team member, Dani Patton!

NEOAHEC has completed our third and final MedQuest camp for 2024!