April 24, 2013
April 20, 2013 -- Dr. Frances Biagioli, a Portland family physician and associate professor of Family Medicine at OHSU, was installed Saturday as the 2013 President of the Oregon Medical Association at the OMA’s Annual General Membership Meeting. Born in St. Louis, Dr. Biagioli grew up in Boston and then returned to Missouri for high school and started college at the age of sixteen at University of Missouri-Rolla’s (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) engineering program. After completing a mechanical engineering degree, she began work for General Motors in Ohio, working in their crash-testing division. Her work with the dummies triggered an interest in human body mechanics and Biagioli returned to medical school. She graduated from the Medical College of Ohio (now University of Toledo) in 1995, completed her residency in family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in 1998. She worked in private practice until 2000 when she returned to OHSU as faculty. Dr. Biagioli is a physician at OHSU’s Gabriel Park Family Health Center, where she served as medical director from 2006-2008, and she is an associate professor at OHSU. Dr Biagioli has been a member of the OMA since 1995 and joined the OMA’s House of Delegates in 1998. She has served the OMA in several roles, including membership on the Community Health Committee for 14 years, the OMA Technology Committee for three years, and service as the Vice-Speaker of the OMA House of Delegates, before she was elected Vice President in 2011 and President-Elect in 2012. In her coming leadership year, Dr. Biagioli hopes “to encourage physicians to participate actively in the OMA, and to use the organization to create meaningful and sustained change for the health of our state.” Dr. Biagioli and her husband Craig Santos live in Northeast Portland and have two children, ages 13 and 15. The Oregon Medical Association is an organization of over 8,000 physicians, physician assistants and medical and PA 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.
