— Winnie Henderson, MD, PhD, FACS, CGRA breast surgical specialist at Oregon Surgical Wellness
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Dr. Winnie Henderson was featured on The Unleashed Podcast.
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Gearing up for Docs and Ducks on October 23, 2021 (Ducks vs UCLA), we are proud sponsors of the Cascade Medical Team who was established in 2001-2002 by a group of healthcare professionals in Oregon. Their first medical mission was launched in 2002. They are just one of several medical teams, dispatched to Guatemala annually through our affiliate, HELPS International. Their teams range in size from 80-100 volunteers. They are a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization. We seek to help them achieve their mission of providing free healthcare and health education, where medical services are severely lacking along with supporting community development projects to the impoverished population in the Highlands of Guatemala. We both share the vision of providing high quality care where it’s needed most. Since their first medical mission in 2002, the Cascade Medical Team has treated over 22,700 Guatemalans!
Regardless of the profession you’re in, there’s always a way to channel your entrepreneurial spirit!
Up until 2021, Drs. Winnie Henderson and Chris Kollmorgen were part of a surgical specialist group, here in Lane County for many years. In their daily work, they always set their sights on providing the best in medical care. Over time, they developed a growing concern with their more tangled and bureaucratic health care delivery environment. As generalists, they performed all kinds of general surgery, but gradually, they sub specialized, developing a primary focus as breast surgical oncologists. They also noticed that their patients had become more anxious, more medically complex, and more often disadvantaged due to their social determinants of health. After years of watching this unfold, they began their journey of finding a better way. Here in their own words, they identify solutions to these intricate problems.