MS and Immunizations

Gretchen LaSalle, MD FAAFP is a board-certified family physician. She completed her medical school training at the Tulane University School of Medicine and her residency at the Oregon Health and Science University. She has practiced at MultiCare Rockwood Clinic in Spokane, Washington for the last 15 years. She serves as an Clinical Assistant Professor for the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is a 2020 American Academy of Family Physicians Vaccine Science Fellow. Vaccine advocacy came as a natural extension of her passion for preventive care. She is an active writer and public speaker on the topic and, in October 2019, published a book with Wolters Kluwer Press titled Let’s Talk Vaccines: A Clinician’s Guide to Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Saving Lives. In a growing climate of vaccine hesitancy, her primary mission is to keep patients from falling victim to vaccine misinformation and to decrease the frustrations, while increasing the successes, that clinicians have in getting patients vaccinated.