Ben Pate, PA-C, joined the Logan Health medical staff in December 2024. After seven years as a registered nurse, Ben returned to school to earn his degree from the University of Wahington MEDEX program as a physician assistant and spent 15 years practicing internal and family medicine in rural Oregon with special interests in mental health and wilderness medicine. Ben is originally from Chiloquin, Oregon, and has been running his own clinic in the Columbia Gorge. He is part of the oldest search and rescue organization in the US, the Crag Rats.
Outside of work Ben loves fishing and hunting and looks for opportunities to go jeeping. He enjoys traveling with his wife and has a small business of blade smithing to fund his hunting passion.
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