| Paula A. Lantsberger, MD,
MPH Dr. Lantsberger has served the employers and workers of the Inland Northwest since 1988 in the practice of Occupational Medicine. Her training includes internal medicine residency with the Sacred Heart program, affiliated with the University of Washington in Spokane, from 1985-1988. Upon completion of the program, she was the associate medical director of Occupational Medicine at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane for 5 years. In 1993, she founded Occupational Medicine Associates. To continue to provide the highest quality occupational medicine services for employers and workers, Dr. Lantsberger completed a Master’s in Public Health degree with the Medical College of Wisconsin, graduating with honors in 1999. The latest accomplishment for Dr. Lantsberger was to complete a rigorous residency program with the University of Pennsylvania from 2002-2003. She was Board certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine and Occupational Medicine in 2004. Dr. Lantsberger also holds certificates as a Medical Review officer, a Certified Independent Medical Examiner and as an Aviation Medical Examiner. She has been an active member of the Northwest Occupational Medicine Association, having been an officer and board member for many years as well as being active in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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| Terrence D. Rempel MD,
MPH Dr. Rempel has practiced Occupational Medicine with Dr. Lantsberger since 1990, and has pursued extensive training in Occupational Medicine, Toxicology, and workplace drug prevention. He is proficient in monitoring workers at risk for exposure to hazardous materials, dealing with industrious illness, coordinating injured worker care, and working with companies to return injuries workers to the workplace. Dr. Rempel has extensive experience performing pre-placement testing, treating injured workers, protecting employers from excessive risk exposure, and preventing workplace injuries. Dr. Rempel is a trained Medical Review Officer and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He is an active member of the Northwest and national chapters of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Royce Van Gerpen, MD, MPH Dr. Van Gerpen has twenty years of Emergency Medicine experience in Spokane. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and has been a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for ten years. Dr. Van Gerpen was Paramedic Supervisor for the Valley Fire Department for seventeen years. He was chairman of the Spokane County Medical Society's Emergency Medical Services Committee. Dr. Van Gerpen left his practice with Valley Hospital and Medical Center, to join Occupational Medicine Associates in 1994. His past Emergency Department directorship prepared him to manage OMA's urgent care facility. Special interests include time loss injury prevention and encouragement of modified work status. |
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| Margo C.
Cockey, MSN,
ARNP Ms. Cockey has practiced as a Nurse Practitioner since 1983. She completed her Batchelor of Nursing degree from University of Mississippi in 1979 and her Masters of Science in Nursing as well as her Nurse Practitioner education from the University of Virginia in 1983. She is Board Certified in Adult Health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has worked in the fields of Employee Health and Occupational Medicine since 1989. She was employed by Mercy Medical Center Business Health Services in Baltimore, MD from 1996-1998 and by Deaconess Medical Center Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine from 1998-2002. She taught in the Nursing Program at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Ms. Cockey is a member of the American College of Nurse Practitioners as well as ARNP United and American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
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