Roy Graves
BS ’74, MD ’78

About Roy Graves

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Job title: Retired Emergency Medicine/EMS

Degrees: BS ’74, MD ’78

Career stage: Retired

State of practice: Seattle, Wenatchee, Friday Harbor, Washington

Current practice settings: Volunteer consulting for medical aid in dying-MAID

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
  • Leaving a practice
  • Starting a private practice
  • Retiring from practice
  • Non-clinical careers
  • Rural medicine
  • Work/life balance
  • International and domestic disaster relief

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1974, 1978

Residency: Emory – Atlanta

Specialty/subspecialty: Emergency Medicine

Teaching roles: EMS training, ATLS, ACLS

Research or other professional interests: Medicine in austere environments-Prehospital, disasters and refugee relief


Roy’s Bio:

Retired from fee for service 12 years ago but still I am active with local disaster response teams- Medical reserve corps and Community Emergency Response Team

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