Devin Beecher, M.D.
Devin Beecher ( he/him) is a fellow physician in the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at Swedish Medical Center. Devin grew up in Seattle, studied literature at Brown University and UCLA, and attended medical school at Columbia University, before completing the Family Medicine Residency Program at Keck School of Medicine of USC. He has previously worked as a musician, a librarian, a biochemist, and an educator. As a geriatrician, he hopes to help build kind and efficient health care systems which guide patients through unfamiliar medical conditions and settings, and to encourage his patients to tell their stories of illness and health in ways that are most useful to them. Outside of medicine, Devin enjoys playing music, learning languages, and exploring the outdoors with his wife, dog, and two young children.
Alissa Kummer, MD,
Alissa Kummer (she/her) is thrilled to be joining the Swedish family medicine team as a geriatric fellow. From central California originally, she has loved the PNW from a young age, and took the first opportunity to move north for her undergraduate degree at Oregon State University as a student-athlete. Following her undergraduate training, she worked as a medical scribe and rowing coach in Oregon before attending OHSU in Portland, OR for her medical degree. Throughout medical training, Alissa was consistently drawn to wholistic medical care and the principles instilled in family medicine. As a family medicine resident, she found immense satisfaction in caring for and teaching others about the needs of older adults both inside and outside of the hospital. The desire to improve her skills in caring for our aging population and continue to explore a role in teaching medical education drove her to join the Swedish geriatric medicine fellowship.
Outside of medicine, Alissa enjoys exploring all that the mountains of the PNW have to offer. She is an avid backcountry and downhill skier, has many long trail running goals, and enjoys the push for a skilled summit attempt of many of the PNW mountains
