PORT ANGELES — Dr. Christopher Frank will begin his duties as Clallam County health officer Sept. 1.
Dr. Jeanette Stehr-Green will remain as interim health officer through August.
Frank, a Michigan native and graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, practices at Family Medicine of Port Angeles and serves one day a week in the emergency department of Forks Community Hospital.
Because he does not hold a master’s degree in public health, he faces three years of mentoring and monitoring by an established health officer.
The process is required by the state Department of Health.
That process will begin after he completes a telephone conference with state health officials and answers a survey of his medical knowledge.
Stehr-Green stepped into the job after Dr. Tom Locke, who continues as Jefferson County health officer, dropped his Clallam County duties to join the Jamestown S’Klallam tribal health department as a co-director and family physician.
The health officer’s job is a part-time position.
