Hello and welcome to my autobiography.  My name is Jeremia Bernhardt, I am a native Oregonian, born and raised just west of Portland, in Beaverton, Oregon.  For those of you familiar with the west side of Portland, I went to Aloha High School.  For college, I moved south to Eugene, Oregon—famous for the Oregon Country Fair—and attended The University of Oregon, and oh yes, I cannot wait to wear my U of O scrubs to work on game days, especially given the rivalry between U of O and UW.  I majored in biochemistry—big surprise for a pre-med.  Nothing fantastic happened in college, just regular college stuff.  Study, party, sleep.  After college, I took a year off and moved to Philadelphia to join the Philadelphia Health Corps, which is part of the AmeriCorps.  (I took the train from Portland to Philadelphia with my grandma, which was fantastic for both the experience taking the train across the country, as well as spending three days conversing with my grandma about life on the farm in North Dakota.)  In the Health Corps, I worked at a small hospital in North Philadelphia doing community outreach and health education.  By small I mean mostly a community clinic but with about 20 or so beds for inpatient drug and alcohol detox.  The rest is like everyone else—medical school, learning lots of medicine---blah, blah, blah.  Now, I’m back in the North West where the people are nicer, life is slower and the views are spectacular.  This summer I got engaged to my longtime (high school) girlfriend, Kristina.  I also drove across the country with my Dad, which everyone should do during their lifetime.  Aside from medicine, I love to cook, I love great micro brews (Kristina and I went on a week long tour of New England Microbreweries this summer—didn’t want to leave the East before sampling the best it has to offer!), and I love classic cars.  I have a 1970 Mustang, which I bought two weeks before my 16^th birthday.  It is currently sitting in my parent’s barn awaiting my return after 9 years.  Someday, hopefully in the next year or so, I’ll bring it up here to Seattle and have a perpetual weekend project.