As a practicing physician, dually certified in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Dr. Hatch combines individual clinical care across the lifecycle with population and system-level innovations to improve the delivery of health care.  As a physician, she practices full spectrum Family Medicine including pediatric care and obstetric care and has a deep first-hand understanding of the strengths and challenges of the healthcare system across inpatient and outpatient settings.  As the Charles R. and Velma E. Sharp Endowed professor, she leads a portfolio of research aimed at preventing cancer among vulnerable populations.  Her work has focused on developing and assessing healthcare interventions at multiple levels – from individual clinic improvement projects, community-level partnership, and national-level dissemination and implementation projects.  As a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine, she is also experienced  in using big data to assess natural health policy experiments that impact health, particularly among women and children.  Dr. Hatch is active in teaching medical students and residents and serves a core investigator with the Oregon Rural Practice-based research Network (ORPRN), an affiliate investigator with OCHIN, and a member of the Knight Cancer Institute (KCI).