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To some, retirement is a long-awaited
Group’s executive director and principal
reward for years o f hard work. Others can’t
investigator, Sampson was the heart and
imagine that much free time, and keep
soul o f the organization, driven by a deep
working.
concern for his patients and a determination
For Dr. James Sampson, 60, the time has
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Sampson grew up in LaGrange, a small
Since retiring in January, he stays near his
town in central Georgia, and wanted to
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home in Sherwood and surrounded by Bella
practice medicine from an early age. After
Madrona, the six-acre garden that inspired
attending medical school at the M edi­
a Pink Martini song and is tended by his
cal College o f Georgia, Sampson moved
partner G e o f Beasley.
to Portland in 1979 to pursue internal
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Many o f his 200 patients were in their
that the organization he founded, the Re­
twenties or thirties and identified as gay,
search + Education Group— Oregon’s only
lesbian or bisexual. He was encouraged
research organization focusing solely on
by Northwest Portland’s G ood Samaritan
H IV research, education, and
Hospital, where he worked, to serve that
population.
in good hands with
his
“There weren’t a lot o f gay physicians
successor, Dr.
in the Portland community in the late
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‘80s,” Sampson remembers. “They
Sampson
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he
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that I was gay.”
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