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Portrait of a Professional

have thought differently about it (I am still teaching by the way)! After four years, I was offered
a half-time position at OHSU that gave me the
ability to spend more time with my family (I had
added two sons by then), and I moved my clinical
practice to the faculty dental group. Although I
loved teaching and working with the residents,
my real love of practicing was hard to do. So the
year my youngest child went to kindergarten, I
took a leap of faith and leased a building in my
neighborhood in southeast Portland. I opened my
private practice from scratch and have been there
for 20 years. I continue to teach one day a week,
and this year my oldest daughter, Hillary, joined
my practice. My career has come full circle.
JP: Tell us about your family.

Dr. Lathrop at her office with daughter Hillary
appreciate the philosophy and art of orthodontics.
I still think of all of them as I work every day to be
the best I can be.
JP: What techniques were taught?
ML: We did mostly straight wire, but as I mentioned, Dr. O'Brien and Dr. Grosso taught us the
standard edgewise technique. I did not like it at
the time, but I credit my ability to bend wire to
that experience.

ML: I met my husband Greg while he was in veterinary school at Washington State University and I
was studying at the University of Idaho. We were
married before we moved to Portland for dental
school (my dad insisted!). Greg purchased a veterinary practice in southeast Portland a year after we
moved, and his love and support was a huge part of
my successes in dental school and in my orthodontic program. As I mentioned earlier, we have two
sons and two daughters. My oldest daughter Hillary is a University of North Carolina ortho grad and
has just joined my practice. My daughter Amaya is
enjoying a successful career at Nike. My son Gabe is
in his last year of medical school, and the youngest,
Ted, is working as an engineer for a local company.
Once all of our children were out of the house, Greg
and I quickly replaced them with canines, and we
have four dogs and four grand puppies.

JP: Tell me about your career path.
ML: My oldest daughter was born when I was
in dental school, and my second daughter was
born the month after I finished my orthodontic
program. I decided I wanted to spend my time
practicing orthodontics and not fussing with
practice management, so I took a half-time position at Kaiser. I was also asked to join the faculty
of OHSU, and I began that work in 1990. I used to
say that if I knew when I walked into the dental
school that I would never be able to leave, I might

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