Our Staff

MATTHEW FAHEY, MD
Matthew Fahey, MD, President of the Travel and Immunization Clinic of Portland, finished his residency in Emergency Medicine at University of Oklahoma in 1992. He has been working as an Emergency Medical Physician in and around the Portland area since then. In 1997 he co-founded Pacific International Maritime Medical Service, a company providing maritime and occupational medicine. Dr. Fahey has been providing part-time travel consultations at the Travel and Immunization Clinic of Portland since its opening in 2003. He enjoys working with his patients and their unique and diverse travel plans. He is an experienced traveler and has been to many countries throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

DAVID SHUBIN, RN, BSN
David Shubin is the Chief Executive Officer of the Travel and Immunization Clinic of Portland. He graduated with a BSN from Linfield College in 1995 serving as the college’s president. Since then he has been working as a Registered Nurse and specializing in critical care and neonatal care. Mr. Shubin has been providing occupational health including air ambulance transportation to maritime patients since 1997, and is certified in travel health. David is an experienced world traveler and has been providing travel health consultations to patients since 2003. David enjoys working with the challenges of families, expatriates and the unique needs of clients who find themselves traveling abroad.

BRIAN BATTALIA, MD
As Medical Director of the Travel and Immunization Clinic of Portland, Brian Battalia, MD brings a long history of experience in travel medicine to the clinic. A medical graduate of Oregon Health Science University, Dr. Battalia trained in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland finishing his residency in 1988. In 1992 he founded the Legacy Health System Travel Clinic at Good Samaritan Hospital where he worked as the clinic’s director until 2003. He is currently the Ambulatory Care Director for Legacy Health System, and is on the boards of CASA for Children, the Legacy Portland Hospitals Foundation and the American Board of Urgent Care Medicine. Dr. Battalia is very proud of the service and experience the Travel and Immunization Clinic of Portland brings to the community.

KAREN SOKOLOW, RN
Karen Sokolow, RN graduated from the Iowa Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in 1968. She has been a practicing registered nurse for over thirty years. She has completed two years of medical-surgical nursing, 10 years of emergency department medicine, 11 years of urgent care experience, and for the past 11 years, has been practicing travel medicine exclusively, and is certified in travel health. Karen has attended many prestigious conferences including the Montreal International Travel and Immunization Conference, the Vancouver B.C. International Travel Conference, and the University of Washington Travel Medicine Conferences. She has also taken the ONA Childhood Vaccine Administration Course, volunteered in the ONA/Multnomah County Immunization Clinics for five years, and is currently a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine.