Family Physician
MultiCare Rockwood Clinic
WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Spokane, Washington
Gretchen LaSalle, MD FAAFP is a board-certified family physician. She completed her medical school training at the Tulane University School of Medicine and her residency at the Oregon Health and Science University. She has practiced at MultiCare Rockwood Clinic in Spokane, Washington for the last 15 years. She serves as an Clinical Assistant Professor for the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is a 2020 American Academy of Family Physicians Vaccine Science Fellow. Vaccine advocacy came as a natural extension of her passion for preventive care. She is an active writer and public speaker on the topic and, in October 2019, published a book with Wolters Kluwer Press titled Let’s Talk Vaccines: A Clinician’s Guide to Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Saving Lives. In a growing climate of vaccine hesitancy, her primary mission is to keep patients from falling victim to vaccine misinformation and to decrease the frustrations, while increasing the successes, that clinicians have in getting patients vaccinated.
American Academy of Family Medicine (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccines): I have received stipends for creating webinars and enduring content for education of the AAFP constituency, Other Financial or Material Support; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccine advocacy): Merck provides unrestricted grants to the AAFP to cover the cost of the AAFP Vaccine Science Fellowship which I completed in 2021, Other Financial or Material Support; Merck Sharpe and Dohme (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccine advocacy): Consultant, MultiCare receives research funding from Merck Sharpe and Dohme and I am a paid consultant on one of their research projects; Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccines): I sit on the Immunization Education Committee and have been paid a stipend to help update the HPV and Hepatitis B sections of the SHOTS app which is overseen jointly by the STFM and the AAFP, Other Financial or Material Support; WA State Dept of Health (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccine advocacy): I have been a paid speaker for various webinars completed on behalf of the WA DOH, Other Financial or Material Support; Wolters-Kluwer (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Clinical Condition: Vaccines): I receive royalties for the sale of my book Let's Talk Vaccines: A Clinician's Guide to Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Saving Lives, Other Financial or Material Support
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
12:25 PM – 1:10 PM
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
12:20 PM – 1:05 PM