Osland, Wambach join JCH Orthopedic Clinic

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Jefferson Healthcare has welcomed orthopedic surgeon John D. Osland, M.D., to the Jefferson Healthcare Orthopedic Clinic. Dr. Osland specializes in knee and shoulder arthroscopy, knee replacements and sports medicine.

He is to lead the Jefferson Healthcare Orthopedic Clinic as it makes the transition from one surgeon to a new team of three surgeons and two physician assistants, and as the clinic moves into its new offices in October. He began seeing patients in late July.

Osland is board certified in both orthopedic surgery and orthopedic sports medicine. He graduated from Washington State University with a master’s degree in exercise physiology and completed his medical degree at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He did his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and spent more than two years working at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor.

Osland has two children in college and has long had a dream to live in the Pacific Northwest. He is looking forward to catching and eating local seafood. His wife, Dr. Jackie Osland, also a surgeon, is to start at Jefferson Healthcare Surgical Associates in September.

Joining Osland at the Orthopedic Clinic is Gretchen Wambach, PA-C. Wambach worked as an emergency department technician in Rochester, New York, and later in Everett, Washington, prior to becoming a physician assistant. In New York, she was a volunteer EMT for seven years and worked part-time as an EMT and CPR training assistant. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine and MEDEX program with a bachelor's degree in clinical health sciences and a physician assistant certificate. Wambach worked first in neurosurgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center before returning to emergency medicine, spending four years in Harrison Medical Center’s Emergency Department.

The Orthopedic Clinic, located on the second floor of Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend, is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. To make an appointment, call 344-0400.