Elsie Piper, MD

Are you fluent in Spanish? No 

Professional areas of Interest: Rural emergency care (including flight and disaster medicine), procedures, obstetrics, the doctor-patient relationship, genetics in primary care, One Health, and resource-limited palliative and hospice care.

Biography: Elsie was born in Sonoma County and grew up in an agricultural region of Northen California. She attended UC Davis on a water polo scholarship, studying genetics & genomics with a minor in English. Elsie moved to Southeast Alaska directly after graduating college and ended up rooted in Alaska for the better part of a decade working various jobs (including as an education coordinator at a museum, at a public radio station and at a spirits distillery). She was a TRUST (targeted rural & underserved) scholar at UW which allowed her to complete much of her medical education bouncing between academic facilities in Seattle and rural communities in Alaska. 

Hometowns: Davis, CA and Haines, AK

Hobbies: (“What I do for fun”) Elsie loves to try new things and often hops from one hobby to the next. Lifelong loves include reading fiction, spending time with family, and spending time outdoors. 

What attracted you to CVCH? The awesome faculty and the ability to complete residency in a place where the doctors are practicing truly full spectrum family medicine were both huge pulls. Elsie and her husband spent a month in Chelan during medical school and appreciated the idea of living somewhere with a small town feeling where they could pursue adventures outdoors with their two young boys.

Are you accepting new patients? Yes