Pippa H. Newell, MD

Dr. Newell grew up in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arizona with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology. She lived in Senegal, West Africa, for one year during college, and returned there as a Fulbright Scholar after graduating from college. She returned to Arizona for medical school, but then in 2003 ventured to New York City for seven years of General Surgery Residency. In 2010, she moved to Portland to begin a Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Fellowship at Providence Portland Medical Center. In 2012, Dr. Newell was hired as a liver/pancreas surgical specialist at the Oregon Clinic, where she worked for eight years. She was the Medical Director of the Liver Cancer Program at Providence Cancer Institute. Her husband, Cory Johnston, was recruited in 2014 as a general surgeon in Hood River, and so Dr. Newell moved to Hood River with her family. In 2020, Dr. Newell had the opportunity to work closer to home, and was hired as a general surgeon at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. She enjoys exploring the outdoors around Hood River with her two boys, Rocky and Bode.