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Dr. Hoverman serves as course director for Clinical Skills I, adds global health and parasitology components to the Community Doctoring and second-year systems curricula, and is Clerkship Director for the Year 4 Global Health Elective. Following graduation from A. T. Still University, he completed an osteopathic internship in Miami, Florida, and a family medicine residency at the University of Minnesota. There he served a chief residency year and completed the university’s global health course. After fulfilling his scholar’s service obligation to the National Health Service Corps with the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, he completed the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is a diplomat of the Royal College of Physicians. 

Having first discovered the grandeur of the Yakima Valley in 1997, Dr. Hoverman continues his deep admiration for the region as an attending physician at Family Health Care of Ellensburg. He is also currently engaged in developing health literacy programs focused on violence prevention in the Yakima Valley and serves as medical director for Doctors for Orphans promoting health literacy programs in rural and underserved settings worldwide. While developing global health curricula and workforce evaluations for PNWU, partnering universities, and healthcare organizations throughout the Americas he also is engaged with several Community-Based Participatory Research projects addressing Maternal and Child Health Outcomes and Indigenous Health, both in the Pacific Northwest and the Andean Highlands of South-Eastern Peru.