David Grunkemeier MD

David Grunkemeier MD

“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

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