- MISSION
- LEADERSHIP
- HISTORY
- IN THE COMMUNITY
WORLD-CLASS EXPERTISE, CONVENIENT PORTLAND METRO LOCATIONS
The relationship with your healthcare team is important to your health journey. Our vision is for patients to have a consistent, efficient, easy experience and know they will receive the highest quality care from compassionate, trusted experts.
With 29 specialties and over 300 physicians and practitioners, our expertise spans a broad scope of medicine, from Audiology to OBGYN to Urology. Our doctors serve patients with kindness and empathy at more than 500,000 visits each year, across more than 50 offices conveniently located throughout the Portland metro area.
INDEPENDENT, INDIVIDUALIZED CARE
In every interaction with patients, their families, and our colleagues, we are guided by our values of dedicating to excellence, compassionate and joyful connection, listening humbly, inclusive collaboration, and leading with integrity.
FOCUS ON COLLABORATION
Our specialty doctors are independent practitioners who collaborate with primary care physicians to ensure patients get the individualized care they need. Our doctors hold leadership positions and directorships at the major hospitals in the Portland metro area while retaining private practice autonomy.
INSPIRING WORKPLACE
We are proud to be included in the Top 10 of The Oregonian’s list of Top Workplaces in Oregon and Southwest Washington for each of the ten years we have participated.
We believe everyone at The Oregon Clinic plays a vital role in achieving our vision for a workplace experience in which our physicians and team members look forward to coming to work and feel good about the work they do in our safe, patient-focused, collaborative environment.
Interested in joining our team? Browse our open jobs.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
We believe that an equitable environment at The Oregon Clinic improves health outcomes for our patients. Our vision is for patients, physicians, and team members to see and feel diversity, equity, safety, and inclusion in all aspects of their interactions with TOC clinics and business administration.
We welcome and embrace differences, showing respect for all people through our words and our actions. This requires a long-term commitment to self-reflection, learning, and taking action to make meaningful, lasting change.
PHYSICIAN LED, PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED
The Oregon Clinic is led by our physicians through an executive committee and board of directors, with the support of administrative and clinical management.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee, consisting of the President, Chief Executive Officer, and the Executive Vice Presidents, is responsible for directing organizational vision and planning and makes high-level management decisions. The Executive Team members are elected at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and serve terms as set by our bylaws.
Thomas Sanchez
CEO
Central Administration
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors, consisting of shareholder physicians who represent different specialties and the Executive Committee, manages clinic-wide business decisions, such as amending the bylaws or compensation plan, admitting shareholders and new practices, approving the annual budget, health plan contracting, hospital and PCP relationships, and insurance purchasing. Board members are also elected at the Annual Meeting and serve two-year terms.
- Sarah Boyles, MD – Urogynecology
- James Craven, MD – General Surgery
- Sergio Crespo, MD – Gastroenterology
- Sajal Dutta, MD – Urology
- Sam Hopkins, MD – Dermatology
- Kristy Poonyagariyagorn, MD – Pulmonology
- Brian Shaffer, MD – Ear, Nose & Throat
- Erik Van Kleek, MD – Gastroenterology
- Lara Williams, MD – OBGYN
Administrative & Clinical Management
To assist physicians in the operation of their clinics, The Oregon Clinic provides an administrative management team consisting of:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Director of Revenue Cycle
- Director of Quality & Risk Management
- Director of Human Resources
- Director of Marketing & Communications
- Director of Information Technology
- Compliance Officer
- Director of Operations for each clinical division
30 YEARS OF SPECIALTY MEDICINE & EXCEPTIONAL CARE
Thirty years ago, a small group of private practice physicians had a bold idea: collaborate to build their own specialty medical practice, run and owned by physicians. The goal was to create a structure where physicians could collaborate on the logistics of running a medical practice, freeing them up individually to focus more on the needs of their patients.
The physicians at these six specialty practices all valued giving their patients individualized care and wanted to retain their independence and autonomy in their work. But they also saw the benefit in collaborating on employee training, medical billing, IT support, marketing, benefits management and more. By joining together to create a large multi-specialty practice, they could reduce the time needed for administrative work and free up more time for patient visits, research work and medical leadership. In 1994, they formed The Oregon Clinic.
Over the past 30 years, what started as a group of 40 physicians has grown into one of the largest physician-owned specialty medicine practices in the country. With nearly 300 medical providers in 28 specialty groups, The Oregon Clinic serves patients in 50 medical offices throughout the Portland Metro area including Hillsboro, Newberg, Gresham, and Clackamas. The Oregon Clinic is consistently ranked as a Top Workplace in the state by its nearly 1,500 employees.
Looking back over the past 30 years, we are proud of our origins, and we are proud that today, The Oregon Clinic is a patient-centered, data-driven, professional medical and surgical specialty practice that serves patients throughout the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.
KEY DATES IN OREGON CLINIC’S HISTORY
- 1994: Six private practice medical specialty groups form The Oregon Clinic.
- 2001: A new group of physicians joins The Oregon Clinic, the first of many new private groups to join.
- 2006: The Oregon Clinic opened the Gateway Medical Center. The LEED Gold certified medical office houses multiple medical specialties, The Oregon Clinic’s state-of-the-art imaging center, and several administrative offices.
- 2016: The Oregon Clinic hires its 1,000th employee.
- 2016: The Oregon Clinic registers as an Oregon Benefit Company, publicly declaring its commitment to supporting staff, patients, and community. This corporate status identifies companies that aim to make a positive impact on society and the environment.
- 2017: The Oregonian named The Oregon Clinic the #1 Top Workplace among large businesses in the state.
- 2019: The Oregon Clinic celebrates its 25th anniversary.
- 2024: The Oregon Clinic celebrates its 30th anniversary!
- 2024: The Oregon Clinic hires its 1,500th employee.
- 2024: The Oregon Clinic Foundation is formed.
As healthcare providers, our mission is to transform lives across the Pacific Northwest by delivering world-class care with kindness and empathy. Every day, we witness the many ways healthcare extends beyond our clinic walls—social, mental, and physical support needs vital to every person.
Over many years, we have made donations and supported our community through a variety of activities, organized by our Community Benefit Committee:
- Annual hygiene supply kit drive with our staff that yielded a large volume of supplies for clients of Central City Concern. The Oregon Clinic is Central City Concern’s largest supplier of hygiene products by far.
- Funded and assembled welcome baskets for residents of Central City Concern’s Recuperative Care Program at Evergreen Crossing, a new development that delivers health care, housing, and respite care for individuals who would otherwise be discharged from hospitals to homelessness.
- Partnered with local non-profits SOLVE and Schoolhouse Supplies at volunteer events for staff and their friends and family in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a recognized holiday at The Oregon Clinic.
- Organized a toy drive supporting Northwest Children’s Outreach and received over 300 donations from staff members.
- Sponsored a Rebuilding Together project to upgrade of the house of an elder in NE Portland and coordinated staff volunteers for a packed day of renovations.
- Hosted several volunteer nights at the Oregon Food Bank for staff and their friends and family.
From 2016-2024 The Oregon Clinic operated as a Benefit Company, a corporate structure that formalized our commitment to supporting our staff, patients, and community. To do even more for our community, we created The Oregon Clinic Foundation to provide grants to small local nonprofits and we will continue community volunteering and drives through our Community Benefit Committee.
The Foundation launched in December 2024 to create equitable access to essential resources by partnering with local non-profits dedicated to advancing health and equity. The Foundation allows anyone—patients, families, friends, and colleagues—to join us in support of this effort.
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