Member: Johnny Delashaw, MD
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Place of Work: OHSU; Portland, OR
Medical School: University of Washington
Q: How long have you
been practicing for?
- "I finished my residency in 1990, so it has been 20 years."
Q: How and when did
you decide that you wanted to practice medicine?
- "My father was a physician, so I had some exposure to it. Actually, I started getting interested when I was an undergrad studying sleep research at Stanford University and in those days they were significantly involved in Sleep Research. I ended up doing brain surgery on cats and dogs and took care of a number of animals who had sleep disorders. I think that my interest in sleep was a big part of why I decided to go into medicine."
Q: How did you choose
OHSU?
- "First of all, I did my training in Virginia and did a year of training in England, and when I finished my training, I went down and became part of the faculty at the University of Florida. I'm from Longview, Washington originally so when I was offered to return to Portland and be within a short distance of my family, it was an easy decision and I've been there since 1992."
Q: Tell me about your
life outside of your practice.
- "I'm an avid fly fisherman. I'm part owner of a fly fishing shop on the Deschutes River, "The Deschutes Angler", and I spend most of my free time either planning fishing trips or fishing locally on rivers like the North Umpqua in Roseburg, OR, the Clackamas, among many others. I also make fishing trips up to my cabin west of Anchorage, Alaska, and to Central America 2-3 times per year."
Q: As far as Social Media goes, what do you see its potential being within the context of the medical profession?
"Social Media will help physicians a lot with simple networking. Ideally, I will be able to help other doctors with problems and they can help me with problems; they can send me patients and I can send them complicated cases for input."
