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Claire Templin, DO, FACOOG


Dr. Claire Templin was born and raised in the mountains of Whitefish, Montana. She studied Geology at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Dr. Templin is a graduate of the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) in Yakima, Washington. As a member of the third graduating class of PNWU, she is excited to help guide and inspire new students as the Division Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at PNWU. Dr. Templin is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Templin completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the University of Michigan Health West Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She balanced her hospital-based, high-acuity tertiary center training with her outpatient practice in Grand Rapids. Dr. Templin served as clinical faculty for the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University, was an active member of the Quality Improvement Committee, and contributed to the Pre-eclampsia Outcome Improvement Task Force at Metro Health Hospital. She was elected as Co-Chief OB/GYN resident during her final year in residency.

Dr. Templin hopes to bring her love of obstetrics and gynecology and experience to provide valuable medical education with a clinical application.  As an attending, she maintains a busy and fulfilling OB/GYN practice in Walla Walla, Washington, where she lives with her husband, a passionate internal medicine physician, and their hilarious and delightfully exhausting daughters.

Dr. Templin loves running, biking, hiking, skiing, spending time outside, working in her yard, and traveling with her family and their two dogs.

Dr. Templin discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients relative to the content of this presentation.