Everyone, the poets and songwriters say, is looking for something.
Joan Hill is looking for something that, at times, can
be hard for her to find. After a stroke and two heart attacks, she’s
looking for hope – hope that someone can find something to help
heal the weakened muscle of her heart.
Hope can also be hard to find halfway around the world in a war-torn land. The bomb blasts and battlefield bullets in Iraq severely injure American soldiers and leave them looking for something that will help heal their broken bodies.
And deep inside Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, one man leads
a team of people looking for ideas that can turn these hopes – of
a local woman and of soldiers injured far away – into something
they can hold onto.
Kenton Gregory, M.D., loves ideas. He gets passionate about
them.
He’s passionate about a lot of things – his work as a cardiologist and as the director of Oregon Medical Laser Center (OMLC), his two teenage boys, and his “hobby” of building a vineyard. From raising kids to raising grapes to raising new ideas at OMLC, Dr. Gregory knows something about making ideas reality – and making the impossible possible.