Dr. Robert Charles Lusk, MD

Personal Statement: I enjoy being part of an academically focused community-based residency, because it allows for such close relationships between residents and faculty. Nothing compares to the joy of watching young physicians grow into accomplished clinicians. During your time with us, we?ll help you develop your clinical skills, your commitment to our profession and help you negotiate the difficult balance between career and family.

Areas of Academic Focus:

House Staff Education

Inpatient Medicine

Clinical Pathway Development and Implementation

HIV Provider Training

National/Regional Responsibilities:

Northwest Medical Teams International, China HIV/AIDS Training Team Delegate

Medical Director, Our House of Portland (HIV/AIDS residential care facility)

Secretary-Treasurer, Infectious Disease Society of Oregon

Publications:

The Healing Touch, On Being a Doctor, Annals of Internal Medicine, Volume 127, No. 6, 486, 1997.

Beta-carotene in HIV infection: an extended evaluation, AIDS, …1996, 10:967-973.

Apoenzyme of Pseudomonas cepacia Salicylate Hydroxylase: Preparation, Florescence Properties, and Nature of Flavin Binding, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Volume 259, No. 2, 1136 ? 1142, 1984.

Presentations:

Extending the Core Competencies to Faculty Evaluation. Workshop, APDIM 2008 Spring Meeting, New Orleans.

Developing an Electronic Sign0Out as part of a Resident QI Project, Invited Workshop, APDIM 2009 Fall Meeting, Philadelphia

1999, Keynote speaker, "HIV and Mental Health". Oregon Health Division Conference on HIV and Mental Health

2004 ,"Syphilis". Medical Grand Rounds, Providence Portland Medical Center; Infectious Diseases Society of Oregon, Fall Meeting; Grand Rounds, Albany General Hospital, Albany, Oregon.

2007, "HIV Co-Management between HIV Specialist and Primary Care", Annual Review Course, Practical Advances in Internal Medicine, Providence Portland Medical Center.

2008, "Medical Strategies to Prevent HIV Transmission: Occupational, Sexual and Mother-to-Child". Medical Grand Rounds, Providence Portland Medical Center.

Teaching Responsibilities:

Clinic Preceptor, 2 half-days weekly

Inpatient Teaching Attending, 2 months annually

Ward Attending, 4 months annually

Morning Report, 2 one month annually

Night Float Rounds

Medical Student Teaching, 1 month annually

ID Consult Service, every month

Personal Interests:
My partner and I are active in local organizations, including Our House of Portland and our church. I enjoy gardening, cooking, reading. We have just finished a major remodel of our old house and are already planning what we want to do next! Chris and I share our home with our very spoiled "pound dog," Esther.I enjoy being part of an academically focused community-based residency, because it allows for such close relationships between residents and faculty. Nothing compares to the joy of watching young physicians grow into accomplished clinicians. During your time with us, we?ll help you develop your clinical skills, your commitment to our profession and help you negotiate the difficult balance between career and family.