Gail Hacker, MD

Dr. Gail Hacker grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and earned her bachelor's degree at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She entered college with the plan to become a teacher, but a turn in the road led her to Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois, where she earned her Doctorate of Medicine in 1983. She completed her Family Medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then completed a High Risk/Operative OB fellowship in Spokane, Washington. She currently serves as a staff physician for a Federally Qualified Health Center (Lane County Community Health Clinics) in Eugene, Oregon. She recently became an Associate Medical Director for the HIV Alliance/Alliance for Community Wellness. She will be helping develop a street outreach clinic to provide on-site care at homeless camps in the city.

Dr. Hacker's clinical interests have focused on women's health. She did finally get her Master's degree in Education in 2004 and currently serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific - Northwest (COMP-NW) in Lebanon, Oregon, where she helps hone young student doctors in the art of history taking and physical examination skills, as well as preparing them for their third year OB rotations and mentoring them in her office. She previously worked with Oregon Health Sciences University helping to develop student rotations in Eugene, Oregon, and led discussions in medical ethics with third and fourth-year students on clinical rotations. She is passionate about social justice and addressing inequity in all areas but particularly in the provision of health care.

Dr. Hacker is married and has one grown son. She lives with her husband, six chickens, two dogs, and various feral cats that have come and gone in Eugene. Her interests include stained glass, gardening, and enjoying all that the Pacific NW has to offer.

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