Hillsboro Clinic
Welcome to the Hillsboro Clinic. In partnership with Pacific University, our Hillsboro clinic delivers primary and behavioral healthcare, prenatal services, dental and vision care to more than 9,400 patients annually.
We currently offer these services in Hillsboro:
Primary Care
226 SE 8th Ave.
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Phone: (503) 601-7400
Hours:
Monday – Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Exceptions: Closed the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of the month from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
For urgent issues after hours, current patients can call 800-876-6577 to speak to a provider. If you’re experiencing a medical emergency, please call 9-1-1.
To contact your care team, please use this directory.
Providers
Dental
730 SE Oak Street, Suite A & B
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Directions
Phone: (503) 352-2354
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Dentists
Michael Kim, DDS
Vision
222 SE 8th Ave.
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Phone: (503) 352-7300
Phone: (503) 616-6049 after hours
On-call doctor
Hours:
Monday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed daily
Noon to 1 p.m.
Pacific University College of Optometry operates the Vision Clinic in Hillsboro.
Si es de habla hispana y prefiere recibir servicios en Español, le invitamos a visitarnos en nuestras clínicas de Hillsboro y Cornelius. Nuestro personal médico y administrativo bilingüe le podrá atender y brindar servicios para sus necesidades de la vista.
Pharmacy
Monday /Tuesday/Thursday/Friday: 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Monica Arce, CNM
Certified Nurse MIdwife Monica Arce joined Virginia Garcia in March 2008. Monica grew up in Peru until she was 18 years old, and then moved to New Orleans. She completed a
Bachelor in Fine Arts in Music and then moved to Portland in 1994. She returned to school ten years later to pursue a nursing and midwifery degree driven by her interests in women’s health, health disparities and her fascination with the transformative power of pregnancy and birth.Virginia Garcia has been a place where Monica can get back in touch with her Hispanic heritage and use her first language on a daily basis. When she is not seeing patients in clinic or delivering babies at Tuality, you may find her playing music with her husband and children, running, hiking, swimming, camping and generally spending as much of her free time as possible with her 15 year old daughter and her eight year old son.
Medical Training: Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR; MS in Nurse Midwifery (2007)
Board Certification: American Midwife Certification Board (2007)
Languages: English and Spanish
Specialty: Family Medicine with OBTeresa Bair, DO
Dr. Teresa Bair has recently returned to her home state of Oregon to join Virginia Garcia for her three-year family medicine residency. She did her general medical training in Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Louisiana, and Costa Rica. Dr. Bair provides primary family medicine, including Osteopathic manual treatments, pediatric, and obstetric care. She is particularly passionate about health education, women’s and reproductive health, manual medicine, and patient advocacy. In addition to her work at Virginia Garcia, she provides care at various clinic and hospital sites in the greater Portland area, largely through the Legacy Health system. Dr. Bair is committed to listening to her patients, helping them access needed resources, and providing education and support to help patients reach their highest level of health and wellbeing.
In addition to providing full-spectrum family medicine, Teresa enjoys spending time in the forest, doing volunteer construction work, sipping tea in front of her fireplace, loving on her family and friends, dancing, traveling, gardening, and playing the ukulele.
Medical Training: University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, ME (2014) Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (2014) Family Medicine
Languages: English and Spanish
Geoffrey Carden, MD
Specialty: Family Medicine with OB
Undergrad: Davidson College, BA, Classical Humanities
Medical school: ETSU College of Medicine, MD
Residency: UC Davis, Stanislaus County Family Medicine
Fellowship: Faculty Development, UNC
Board Certification: Family Medicine
Languages: English, Spanish
Sarah Deines
Dr. Sarah Deines was selected as the Director of Quality for Virginia Garcia in 2017. In this role, Sarah provides oversight of clinical quality improvement and assurance initiatives to ensure access to and provision of high quality care, done cost-effectively with sustained employee engagement.
Sarah Deines originally joined Virginia Garcia in July 2009 as the first clinical pharmacist and, since that time, has supported development and expansion of VG’s clinical pharmacy program across all primary care clinics. Expansion of the clinical pharmacy program focused on delivering high quality care to optimize outcomes for the patients and populations served. This includes delivery of nurse and provider training on standards of care and medication protocols to support evidence based medication use in our clinics.
Medical Training: Oregon State University College of Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD 2008). Legacy Health PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program, Portland, OR (2009).
Board Certification: Board Certification Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP) 2012
Languages: English, Spanish
Lyn Jacobs, MD
Doctor Lyn Jacobs joined Virginia Garcia in August 1998. She came here as a National Health Service Scholar and has stayed here because of her amazing colleagues and truly inspirational patients. Their stories and experiences continue to motivate her to provide the best primary care she can. She has delivered over 1,500 babies, most of them right here in Washington County. Helping families bring new members into this world continues to be a highlight of her medical practice.Dr. Jacobs’ medical interests vary, she loves working with families and helping people modify their lifestyle and eating habits to prevent chronic diseases such as: diabetes, obesity and hypertension. She and her husband run an organic farm where they raise vegetables, grass fed beef, goats and poultry for eggs. She loves spending time with her husband Juvencio and three kids, Jacob, Diego and Eva Luna. When not with her patients or planting on her farm, her hobbies include: cooking for large crowds, ceramics, hiking, arranging flowers and wreath making.
Medical Training: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (1995)
Residency: Family Medicine Residency, Contra Costa County Regional Hospital (1995-98)
Board Certification: Family Medicine
Language: English and Spanish
Caitlin Karplus, DO Family Medicine
Specialty: Family Medicine
Undergrad: Oregon State University, Chemistry
Medical school: A.T. Still University, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: In residency at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Board Certification: currently in training
Languages: English, basic Spanish
Jennifer King, MD
Doctor Jennifer King joined Virginia Garcia in January of 2015.Medical Training: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA (2011) Medical Doctorate
Residency: Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency, Santa Rosa, CA (2014) Family Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Family Medicine (2014)
Suniti Kumar, MD
Doctor Suniti Kumar joined Virginia Garcia in October 2005 and enjoys working with patients from all different parts of the world. She is a Board Certified Family Practice physician who went to college, medical school, and residency in Massachusetts. She then completed a Fellowship in Obstetrics, so she does most of the Cesarean Sections for our patients. Before joining Virginia Garcia, she worked as a volunteer for Doctors without Borders in Myanmar (Burma) and Niger and also worked in New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington State. She speaks Spanish and understands basic Thai. Suniti is a single mother of two children she adopted at birth, one from Texas and one from Oregon. She enjoys playing with her children, reading, cooking, sewing, bike riding, doing yoga, and talking to others about adoption and single parenthood.
Medical Training:
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1997
- Austin Medical Education Programs, Obstetrics Fellowship, 2003
Residency: Greater Lawrence Family Practice Residency, 2000
Board Certified: Yes
Languages: English and Spanish
Amy Mild, LCSW
Specialty: Working with children and their families.
Undergrad: UC Davis
Graduate school: California State University, Sacramento (MSW)
Internships: Sacramento Bureau of Drugs and Alcohol and Kaiser Adult IOP psychiatry
Board Certification: Oregon Board of Social Workers (LCSW)
Language: English
Alison Marie Reta, Pharm. D., CDE
Undergrad: University of Southern California; BA, Spanish
Pharmacy school: University of California, San Francisco; Pharm. D.
Residency: University of Southern California PGY1 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice
Fellowship, if any: University of Southern California Ambulatory Care/Academia
Board Certification: Certified Diabetes Educator
Languages: English and Spanish
Yaneira Romero, MSW, CSWA
Specialty: Mental Health Therapy
Undergrad: University of Portland, BSW
Graduate school: Portland State University, MSW
Internships: El Programa Hispano/Catholic Charities, Open Meadow Alternative School, Providence’s Beginnings Program
Fellowship: Board of Director’s Member for the National Association of Social Worker’s Oregon Chapter
Board Certification: Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA)
Languages: English and Spanish
Michael Schiferl, MD
Doctor Michael Schiferl joined Virginia Garcia in October of 2009. Dr. Schiferl’s medical interests include international medicine and medical relief, community health, pediatrics, and obstetrics. Having worked for community health for nearly 10 years, Michael joined Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Clinics to continue his interest and commitment to community health and helping the underserved both locally and overseas. In his free time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, nature, photography, motorcycling and touring, and travel.Medical Training:
- University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI (2001) Medical Doctorate
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (2006) Diploma in Tropical Medicine
Residency: Stanislaus Family Practice Residency, University of California-Davis, Modesto, CA (2004) Family Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Family Medicine (2014)
Language: English and Spanish, Italian and Thai
Ingrid Solares, LCSW, CADC1
Ingrid Solares joined Virginia Garcia in July of 2015. Ingrid is dedicated to working with underserved and vulnerable populations to help improve their quality of life. Her background and training is in strategic and structural family therapy and has experience working with children, high risk adolescents and their families and chemically dependent clients in crisis through strengths-based and action oriented interventions. Having worked with vulnerable, oppressed, and impoverished communities, Ingrid is attracted to Virginia Garcia’s mission statement and the incredible care the organization provides to the community.In her spare time Ingrid enjoys spending time with her loved ones exploring the outdoors and enjoys hiking, camping, stand up paddle boarding, exercising, reading and watching movies.
Medical Training: Portland State University, Portland, OR, (MA) in Social Work (06/2012)
Board Certification: National Association of Social Workers (2015)
Addictions Counselor Certification Board of Oregon (2014)Languages: English and Spanish
Thomas Stason, DO
Doctor Thomas Stason joined Virginia Garcia in October of 2013 as a way to bring Osteopathic Manipulation Medicine education to the Family Practice Residents. He’s glad to be able to offer this service to the patients of Virginia Garcia. In his private practice he specializes in cranial trauma, headaches and visual issues.In his spare time, he likes to cook and practice yoga and is anticipating his first child in January of 2015..
Medical Training: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (2004)
Residency: St. Barnabas Hospital in New York, residency in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine / Osteopathic Manipulation Medicine
Board Certification: American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (2009)
Language(s): English
Elizabeth Uno, MD
Specialty: Family Medicine with obstetricsUndergrad:Portland State University, BA in Biology and Spanish
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine, MD
Residency: Ventura County Family Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Family Medicine
Languages: English and Spanish
Larissa Whalen-Garfias, PA-C
Physician Assistant Larissa Whalen-Garfias joined Virginia Garcia in September of 2006. Larissa’s medical interests include working with the underserved and Latino populations. She enjoys outdoor activities, cooking, and spending time with her husband and two children.Medical Training: Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR (Master of Physician Assistant Studies) 2003
Board Certification: National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (2004)