Bend Downtown Staff
Ed Bigler, MD
Dr. Ed Bigler was raised near Mesa Verde, Colorado, and attended both undergraduate and medical school in Boulder and Denver. He earned his MD in 1959, interned at Philadelphia General Hospital, then was Captain in US Air Force at Mountain Home, Idaho, for two years. He completed his residency in Santa Clara County in California and began family practice in Bellevue, WA, from 1963 to 1970.
Dr. Bigler helped to initiate one of the first full-time emergency medical practices in Renton, Washington and enjoyed that practice for 32 years. He retired from that field to return to family medicine at High Lakes Health Care in Bend, OR, since 2004.
Dr. Bigler is married to Sandy, a nurse-artist, and has four grown children and three grandchildren. He loves the arts, skiing, boating and travel. He also loves the people and vitality of Bend.
Linda Carroll, MD
Dr. Linda Carroll was born in New York City and grew up in the surrounding suburbs. After college, she worked for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite as a production assistant/secretary. In 1971, she moved to southern California where she received a Master's Degree in physical therapy from the University of Southern California. Subsequently, she worked as a physical therapist for 12 years, first in California and then in New York. In 1986, she entered medical school (Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio); following medical school, she completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation (physiatry) at the University of Washington in Seattle. After residency, Dr. Carroll entered private practice in the Port Angeles/Sequim area of the north Olympic Peninsula. She moved to Bend in 2001.
Dr. Carroll's practice focuses on musculo-skeletal issues, primarily those involving the spine and muscle/joint regions as the result of a sports/recreational injury or of an on-the-job injury (i.e. Workman's Compensation claim). Since many people with musculo-skeletal problems often have pain as a result of their injury, a physiatrist such as Dr. Carroll will treat pain as a part of the total treatment program of rehabilitiation that is aimed at restoring the person to as normal function as possible. She also performs a variety of soft tissue and joint injections as well as electrodiagnostic studies (EMG and nerve conduction).
Jeness Christensen, MD
Dr. Jeness Christensen is board certified in internal medicine since 1998. She attended medical school in the Philippines on full scholarship, then completed her internal medicine residency in New Jersey, where she was voted Resident of the Year. She has worked at an internal medicine faculty at the Atlantic City Medical Center and later spent five years as a primary care internist in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2005 she moved to central Oregon to bring her children closer to their grandparents, who live in Eugene, Oregon.
She has a focus on primary care practice, with a wide range of interest that includes preventative health, well-woman exams, women's health issues, diabetes, hypertension, abnormal cholesterols, pre-operative evaluation to reduce post op complications and more. She has a strong emphasis on total patient care, which includes lifestyle modification and blending the patient's personal beliefs and practices with evidence-based medicine.
John L Corso, MD
Dr. John Corso is a board-certified internist who has been practicing for more than twenty years. His undergraduate degree in microbiology was awarded at UCLA in 1979. After graduating with honors from The University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School in 1985, he completed his medical training at the prestigious UCLA-HarborMedical Center
With the creation of the Personal Access Program in 2001, Dr. Corso became the first Oregon physician to adopt a retainer (or co-op) based model of practice for the purpose of providing a closer connection between physician and patient and allowing for more thorough screening and treatment of health risks. This program allows him to provide a high level of in-depth care to a small total patient population.
Dr. Corso’s commitment to spreading knowledge gained through his medical career extends beyond his practice. He has participated in clinical studies in the area of heart disease and migraine and is a sought-after speaker, sharing his expertise with other physicians and lay-people since 1997. His book, Stupid Reasons People Die is due out early in 2007.
Dr. Corso lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife, Debi, and two children. He is an avid hiker and skier and enjoys music and film. He screens film submissions as a volunteer for BendFilm, a local, annual, independent film festival.
Jamie (Platt) Freeman, PA-C
Jamie Platt received her state Physician Assistant license in 2003, and has been certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. She completed her Masters Degree in Physician Assistant Studies at the Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2003, after having received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1998.
Jamie has done several projects in community service, including help with the Special Olympics, Make a Difference Day, and the Head Start Program. In addition to those programs she worked with the Peaceworks Medical Group providing medical care to villages in the central region of Honduras.
Jamie strives to offer the highest quality health care to her patients, and says, “Knowing how dynamic medicine is, I embrace the need to maintain the most recent knowledge on disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.”
Jamie moved to central Oregon in 2006, coming to High Lakes Health Care from Silverton. She enjoys skiing and is remodeling a new home with her husband. She has changed her name due to marriage, and has a boy.
Brooke Hall, MD
Dr. Brooke Hall recently joined High Lakes Health Care after five years of experience as an internal medicine hospitalist. She started then served as director of the Preoperative Clinic at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. She also served as the hospitalist director of the Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital. Drawn by the outstanding medical community, the outdoor activities, and Bend's family friendly community, Dr. Hall and her family relocated to Bend in July 2006. She worked as a hospitalist at St. Charles Medical Center with Sound Inpatient Physicians.
Dr. Hall graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1995 and then earned her M.D. at Wayne State University in Detroit. After completing medical residency at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., she earned internal medicine board certification in 2003.
David J. Kelly, MD
Dr. David J. Kelly moved to Central Oregon in 2011, lured by the High Lakes Health Care team approach to practicing medicine. After a childhood in Canada, he spent his undergraduate years at the University of Utah and moved on to medical school at Ross University. After completing his Residency, Dr. Kelly followed his love of “almost all sports” into a Sports Medicine Fellowship in Janesville, Wisconsin. With four active sons, he figures those sports med skills may come in handy!
Dr. Kelly is eager to participate in all living in Bend has to offer, including kayaking, skiing, camping/backpacking, trail running and mountain biking with his wife and sons. And you know what they say about following the doctor’s orders; it’s a good idea when he’s got a Black Belt in Mixed Martial Arts.
Madeline Lemee, MD
Dr. Madeline Lemee completed an MD and BA accelerated program in 1987, combining Medical and Bachelors Degrees at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City. Following that program she moved on to Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to complete her residency in 1990, where she moved up to chief resident. She has been board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1990.
Dr. Lemee's career has involved private practice for 17 years and has included involvement with prevention and wellness programs, pharmaceutical clinical trials. In addition, she has been a national lecturer on women's health and a clinical instructor of medicine.
Dr. Lemee moved to Bend in 1995. She is married and has two children, ages 12 and 15, and enjoys gardening and playing the piano.
Mary Manfredi, MD
Dr. Mary Manfredi grew up in Helena, Montana. She attended college at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she earned a degree in Microbiology. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Oregon Health Sciences University, Dr. Manfredi completed her Internal Medicine training at Stanford University Hospital. Dr. Manfredi then practiced as a primary care physician for nearly six years at the Menlo Medical Clinic before moving to Bend in 2006 with her husband to better satisfy their active lifestyle and love of the outdoors. Before joining High Lakes Health Care, Dr. Manfredi worked as a hospitalist at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend for over three years, which has allowed her to become familiar with the Central Oregon medical community. Dr. Manfredi is excited to join High Lakes Health Care and return to primary care.
Dr. Manfredi enjoys all aspects of internal medicine, but is particularly interested in preventive care, women's health, sports medicine, complex medical patients, and post-hospital care.
Dr. Manfredi and her husband have two small children, and enjoy running, cycling, downhill snowboarding/skiing, and cross country skiing.
Stephen Mann, DO
Dr. Stephen Mann is a Colorado native and brought his love of the outdoors to his home in Oregon in 1983. He is a Board Certified Osteopathic Family Practitioner with special interest in whole family care, wellness medicine, sports medicine, back and neck care including osteopathic manipulative medicine and primary care psychiatry.
He considers his patients as partners in their care and promotes optimal wellness.
He currently serves as the medical director at High Lakes Health Care and is part of the Quality Assurance team at the COIHS insurance company. He has served as president of the local medical society and the state Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Oregon. At St. Charles he currently serves as director of the Education Committee.
He co-founded HealthWise in 1989 to assist individuals with healthy lifestyle changes and corporations with wellness promotion programs.
Dr Mann is an original partner in High Lakes and has enjoyed being a part of the growth of services and close personal attention provided by its staff.
His wife, Deborah MacWilliams, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and they share three active children. Hobbies include watercolor painting, hiking, skiing, competitive masters swimming, gardening and woodworking. He has traveled and studied in many foreign countries and speaks passable German but always considers Central Oregon the best place to live.
Dr. Jessica Morgan was a college volunteer delivering flowers at a local hospital when she realized medicine might be for her. After attending medical school at University of Minnesota, Duluth and completing her residency at St. Mark's Family Practice Residency, Salt Lake City Utah, she made family medicine her specialty. “I enjoy full spectrum medicine and caring for patients from young to old. I could never figure out a different specialty because I loved parts of all the different realms!” she says.
After a childhood in small-town Minnesota and a stint in Salt Lake City, Utah near the mountains, Dr. Morgan realized that she wanted to raise her family in a place that combined both. After much time and research and many trips to Bend, she and her family quickly knew it was the place for them. During her search, “many friends in Bend spoke highly of High Lakes Health Care. As I got to know the physicians and staff at High Lakes, I admired their small town feel yet technically advanced approach to patient care.”
Dr. Morgan and her family love to ski and bike together and, on her own, she is an avid reader who puts a good book down long enough to go for a run in her beautiful new home town.
Lisa Uri, MD
Dr. Lisa Uri was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs. She attended Emory University and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Biology and Psychology. She worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Merck & Co. for two years before attending medical school. Dr. Uri completed her studies at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia in 1997. She followed with her residency at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ during which time she lived in New York City. After settling with her family in Connecticut, Dr. Uri worked at an Urgent Care Center in Greenwich, CT.
Dr. Uri moved to Bend with her family in July 2006. She and her husband have three daughters and they enjoy spending time with family and friends, traveling and all the outdoor physical activities Bend has to offer including camping, paddle boarding, snow shoeing and skiing . Her husband is an experienced triathlete who has encouraged her to participate in the sport, as well.
Dr. Uri approaches patient care with kindness and understanding, with a focus on lifestyle and preventive care. She truly enjoys being an integral part of her patients’ lives.