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Stanley L.K. Flemming, D.O., M.A.
President
Stan Flemming, D.O., M.A. is a 1985 graduate of Western University of Health Sciences at Pomona, California. He completed his Residency in Family Medicine at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach in California and a Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California School of Medicine. For the past twenty years, he has been active in academic, public health, military and private practice medicine.
Doctor Flemming completed his undergraduate and graduate work and received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Zoology from the University of Washington. He received his Masters Degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Social-Psychology/Human Relations. He is currently pending award of a Masters Degree from the United States Naval War College in National Strategic Planning. In addition to his degree programs, he has also completed programs at the United States Army War College, the United States Naval War College, the United States Air Force War College, Harvard University School of Public Health – Physician Leadership Education Program, and is a Senior Fellow in the American Leadership Forum. He is a board certified family medicine physician with sub-specialties in Adolescent Medicine; HIV & AIDS related diseases, and Aviation Medicine.
In addition to his successful career in medicine, he has served a distinguished career in the United States Army and is a combat veteran with two tours of duty in the Middle East and the Balkans. He holds the rank of Brigadier General. In 1991 he became the first Native American to be elected to the Washington State House of Representatives and later became the founding Mayor for the City of University Place, then, the second largest city in Pierce County, Washington. He continued serving on the city council and was Mayor-Elect when he was appointed to become the first permanent President of Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. In 1995, he was one of two finalists for Surgeon General of the United States under the Clinton Administration and the first osteopathic physician to ever achieve that status.
He is married to the former Martha Light of Steilacoom, Washington and is dad to their three children, Emily, Drew, and Claire.
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