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3 more reasons to keep your health care close to home

This fall, we proudly welcome three more exceptional physicians to our medical staff.

Meet your newest physicians

Grande Ronde Hospital (GRH) works hard to improve your access to great health care by expanding choices for local services and providers. The breadth and depth of health care options we secure for this county is atypical and unprecedented for a small rural hospital.

This fall, we proudly welcome three more exceptional physicians to our medical staff. Please join us in welcoming them and their families to our community.

With all of our 49 active health care providers, GRH continues to give you the most options for the world-class health care you need, with the hometown touch you want.

Brian Affleck, MD

Otolaryngology

Otolaryngology (ears, nose and throat).
Ear surgery and hearing preservation.
Micro-laryngeal surgery.
Sinus surgery.
Thyroid and parathyroid surgery.
Facial reconstructive surgery.
Neck cancer surgery.
Sleep medicine.

After 24 years of service as an Air Force officer in various places across the country and the globe, Dr. Affleck feels like this move with his family to Union County is like coming home. Dr. Affleck was raised in a rural community in Idaho and still has family in Idaho.

In 1991, Dr. Affleck received his medical degree from the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He completed a general surgery internship at the David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., in 1992. For the next six years, Dr. Affleck completed a primary course in aerospace medicine and then served with the 42nd Medical Group as a flight surgeon and as chief of aeromedical services, flight medicine, and physical examinations and standards.

In 1998, he entered the residency program in otolaryngology—head and neck surgery at the Wilford Hall Medical Center and Brooks Army Medical Center in Texas. He completed his residency in 2002. Dr. Affleck has since served in various medical, surgical and command capacities for the U.S. Air Force in England, South Korea and Alaska. He retired this year with the rank of colonel. His final assignment was chief of the medical staff at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.

Dr. Affleck is available at the new Regional ENT Clinic by calling 541-663-3190.

Maynard Bronstein, MD, PhD

Oncology

Oncology services.
Cancer diagnosis.
Cancer management and treatment.
Hematology (blood disorders).

Many folks in our community are already familiar with Dr. Bronstein’s quiet dedication to patients and comforting bedside manner. For three years, he has provided oncology services via an outreach clinic at Grande Ronde Hospital (GRH). This summer, Dr. Bronstein joined the medical staff at GRH and moved to La Grande.

After completing his undergraduate degree at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Dr. Bronstein went on to attend Duke University School of Medicine, receiving his combined medical degree and doctorate of philosophy in 1992. He also completed his internship and residency there. He then earned a prestigious fellowship in hematology and oncology from Duke in 1999.

After nearly two decades at Duke University, Dr. Bronstein was encouraged to consider joining the faculty, but was eager to work in a hands-on clinical setting. He worked as an emergency room physician at the Fayetteville (N.C.) Veterans Administration Medical Center until 2000. For the next three years, he worked for the Department of Medicine at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C. In 2003, Dr. Bronstein went to work in the Hematology/Oncology Department for the Medcenter One Health System in Bismarck, N.D.

In 2007, Dr. Bronstein moved to the Pacific Northwest, fulfilling a long-held dream to live and work in the western United States. He has spent the past four years on the medical staff of Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash., as an oncologist in the Regional Cancer Center, while consulting at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton and, for the past three years, for the Oncology Clinic at GRH.

In addition to his two children, Dr. Bronstein is most proud of his membership in the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the peer nomination that garnered him a place on the Best Doctors list. Founded in 1989 by physicians affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, Best Doctors provides expert medical consultation services, representing 400 subspecialties of medicine and the top 5 percent of physicians. It is affiliated with top medical institutions across the country. Dr. Bronstein is available at GRH’s new Regional Hematology and Oncology Clinic by calling 541-963-2828.

Chad Burgoyne, MD

Orthopedics

General orthopedic care.
Pediatric fractures.
Trauma.
Shoulder injuries (fracture/rotator cuff repairs and reconstruction).
Knee injuries (ACL and meniscus injury repairs, replacement and reconstruction).
Hip injuries (replacements and fracture repair).
Wrist and ankle injuries (repair).

While competing in triathlons and college athletics as a swimmer, Dr. Burgoyne decided he wanted to become an orthopedic surgeon to work with athletes. Graduating cum laude in 2002 from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Dr. Burgoyne spent the next five years working in orthopedics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. In 2007, he entered a one-year fellowship program for orthopedic sports medicine at the West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

For the past three years, Dr. Burgoyne has worked at Lowcountry Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine near Charleston, S.C., as an orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Burgoyne has also worked nationally and internationally as an event physician for WMI Corp., an event medicine and rescue provider for top athletes; on the Mountain Dew Action Sports Tour; and as a course physician for the International Cycling Federation’s BMX Supercross Tour.

Moving here with his young family, Dr. Burgoyne is excited to settle into a family-friendly, sports-minded community and bring his world-class expertise and care to local university and high school athletes. Dr. Burgoyne is available at the new Regional Orthopedic Clinic by calling 541-663-3100.