Bend East Side Staff
Jenny Blechman, MD (Sabbatical)
Dr. Jenny Blechman attended University of Bordeaux, France in 1989, moving on to complete her BA in French literature and biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1991. Completing her studies at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York in 1997, she followed with her residency at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, from 1997-2000. During her residency she was chair of the gynecology curriculum, chief obstetrics coordinator, and president of the resident organization.
Through her medical career, Dr. Blechman has volunteered to help homeless teens- as well as being a member of the Medication Error Task Force, a committee with the goal of reducing hospital-wide medication errors. She has been a family physician since 2000, and also has worked as an urgent care provider.
Among her certifications, Dr. Blechman includes Pediatric and Neonatal Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support, and Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics. She is licensed to practice in Vermont, Washington, and Oregon.
Dr. Blechman recently returned to High Lakes Health Care after delivery of her second child in 2006.
Dr. Blechman is currently on a leave from High Lakes, while she is completing a fellowship at Stanford University in Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative Medicine addresses end-of-life care as well as the prevention and relief of symptoms associated with illness. She and her family look forward to returning to Bend in 2012.
David Fredstrom, MD (Retired)
Dr. David Fredstrom studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University and graduated from University of Nebraska in Omaha in 1969. He continued on to do his internship at Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center in Portland, and his residency at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland.
Dr. Fredstrom has been in family practice in Oregon since 1974. He loves football, especially the Nebraska Huskers, and chocolate.
Dr. David Fredstrom has retired the spring of 2011 after 37 years of taking care of his many patients. He leaves wishing all of his patients well. He thanks them for having the pleasure of knowing them and trusting him to be a part of their health care. High Lakes has all of his patient’s charts and we have many fine providers that can resume your healthcare needs. Please call if you have any questions and we will guide you to the provider that will best fit your needs.
Aubrey Perkins, FNP
Aubrey Perkins FNP received her Nurse Practitioner degree in 2004, and is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She completed her Master's Degree at Florida Atlantic University in 2004 and her Bachelor Degree in Nursing from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 1999.
Aubrey enjoys primary care and the diversity it has to offer.
Aubrey moved to Bend in 2008. She is married and has two children. She enjoys spending time with her family skiing, hiking, and kayaking.
Kevin Rueter, MD
Dr. Kevin Rueter is a board-certified family physician who is happy to have returned to Oregon in 2008. He grew up in McMinnville and subsequently attended college at Willamette University in Salem prior to medical school at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. After completing residency and serving as Chief Resident at Southern Illinois University, Dr. Rueter moved back to Oregon to be closer to family and friends.
Dr. Rueter’s professional interests encompass the complete scope of Family Medicine from care of the newborn to Geriatric medicine. He is particularly interested in Women’s health and adolescent medicine as well as health information technology. He served on several committees during his residency and helped implement the electronic health record at Southern Illinois University.
Away from medicine, Dr. Rueter enjoys spending time with his wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Aerilynn. He also enjoys travelling, skiing, and golf.
Jennifer Surber, MD
Before medical school, Dr. Surber worked in Pediatric Orthopedic Clinical research at Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, where she found that she enjoyed developing relationships with patients and their families, and watching them overcome their medical hardships to thrive over the years. Through Family Medicine, she continues to find reward in knowing and guiding people through their lives, and sees herself as a personal medical consultant whose goal is to educate, advise, and encourage patients to good health through understanding them as people. She believes strongly in the power within people to make the most lasting impact on their own health and well-being, in addition to offering them quality medical care, preventative medicine, and lifestyle adaptations for healthy living.
Dr. Surber spent 3 years practicing Emergency Medicine in rural Colorado and California, and became certified in Advanced Wilderness Life Support some years ago. She traveled to Haiti in January and March 2010 to provide medical relief after the devastating earthquakes around Port-Au-Prince, and spent time teaching EMS students in Chengdu, China with Heart to Heart International in 2009. Service to those with fewer resources and access to care is very important to her, and she will continue to make herself available for relief and missionary work for the rest of her career.
Some of her other interests include Diving medicine and SCUBA, traveling, writing and exploring the great outdoors with her fiance, John, and her dog Izzy. As lovers of good food, good wine (well, not Izzy), the good earth and good friends, they hope to become a living example that one does not have to be an ascetic monk to live long and be healthy. They are thrilled to be here in Oregon and excited to be a part of the Bend community and to build a long-term home here.
William Wignall, MD
Dr. Bill Wignall was born and raised in Wymore, a small town in southeast Nebraska. He attended undergraduate school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and earned a BS in zoology. After graduation he attended medical school at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He then completed a rotating internship at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington, following completion of his MD.
Dr. Wignall practiced for two years in the United States Army, after which he became board certified in family medicine and went into private practice in Canon City, Colorado. He then took a faculty position with the North Colorado Family Practice Residency Program in Greeley, Colorado, where he spent nearly 21 years. In 2006 he left that position and joined High Lakes Health Care.
His areas of interest have included general family medicine, non-operative obstetrics, colonoscopy, EGD, no-scalpel vasectomy and colposcopy. In the course of his career Dr. Wignall has received an award from the Colorado Family Medicine Teacher of the Year for 2004, and is certified by the American Board of Family Practice.
Dr. Wignall's hobbies include model railroading, computers, riding road bikes with his wife, Vonnie, and he is encouraging an interest in mountain biking as well. They cross country ski and have done some downhill skiing in the past. Hiking and enjoying all that nature provides is well up on their list of interests. They are a blended family, with each having two adult boys. All but one of the boys has given them grandchildren, six in all: five boys and one little girl. They have followed five of the six to the northwest so will now be able to enjoy them to the fullest.