Nancy Hutnak, DO, a Baker City emergency physician, was installed Friday as the 2014 President-Elect of the Oregon Medical Association at the OMA’s Annual Meeting at the Nines hotel in downtown Portland.
Dr. Hutnak was raised in Rhode Island. After graduating from the same high school as her father, she earned a BS in Chemistry from St. Louis University. She earned her osteopathic medical degree from A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Missouri and did her internship in Ohio. Dr. Hutnak served in the Army’s emergency department as the Clinic Commander and Director of Health Services for the Aschaffenburg Military Community in Germany and the Chief of Family Medicine at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. She completed her Family Medicine residency at Ft. Ord, California.
After leaving the Army, Dr. Hutnak moved to Baker City in 1991, initially splitting her time between the emergency department and a family practice that included obstetrics – she was the only female physician in Baker City at the time – but later committing fulltime to the emergency department. She has been Chief of Staff and chair of multiple hospital committees and has served on the local School Board and Hospital Board.
Dr. Hutnak has been involved in the OMA since 1996, initially as the Baker County delegate and then on the Board of Trustees. She joined the Executive Committee in 2010, serving as member-at-large from 2010-2012 and then secretary-treasurer from 2012-2014. Following her one-year term as president-elect, she will be installed as the OMA’s 141st president in April 2015.
Dr. Hutnak and her husband Neal Jacobson, DO, live in Baker City and have two grown sons; their oldest is a C-130 pilot in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Little Rock, Arkansas, and their youngest is a civil engineer in Salem.
The Oregon Medical Association is an organization of over 8,000 physicians, physician assistants and medical students organized to serve and support physicians in their efforts to improve the health of Oregonians. Additional information can be found at www.theOMA.org.
