Caring for Your OhanaTM
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Susan Christensen, MD
Dr. Christensen is a board certified family medicine physician. She grew up in metro-Atlanta, Georgia with 2 sisters, a brother and a golden retriever. She moved to Hawaii over 15 years ago with her children and husband and have made Kailua their home. Dr. Christensen received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. She moved to the northeast for her Residency in southern New Jersey and joined Trade Winds in November 2017. 
Dr. Lee is a board certified family medicine physician with the focus of individualized preventive medicine for you and your family from 1
month old and older. Dr. Lee has practiced in a variety of health care settings including private practice, military medicine, emergency medicine, urgent care, wound care and hyperbaric medicine for over 10 years. Dr. Lee's medical profession, as well as her military service, has given her the opportunity to see many places and provided her with extensive experiences from around the world.
She moved from Bien Hoa, Vietnam at the age of 12 with her mother and seven siblings joining her father and a brother in Honolulu Hawaii in 1998. Once settling in Hawaii, she struggled with the English language and Hawaii’s culture while first attending Washington Intermediate School. Overcoming the language barrier she excelled and graduated as valedictorian from Kaimuki High School in 1995 and continued her education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, graduating with honors in 2001.
Dr. Lee was named “Soldier of the Year of the Pacific Region” while serving in the Hawaii Army National Guard for seven years before she attending Des Moines University – Osteopathy Medical School in Iowa. After graduating with honors from medical school, she desired to learn about rural medicine thus Dr. Lee completed her internship and residency training in Family Practice Medicine at Southeast Medical Center in Durant OK where her daughter was born in 2006.
Dr. Lee worked for Comanche Community Medical Center – Wound Care Center (Hyperbaric Medicine) for four years. Dr. Lee also dedicated her time working weekends at CCMH-Urgent Care Clinic as well as volunteering one night a week at Hearts That Care clinic. Once deciding to focus on her primary care practice Dr. Lee began working for Frontier Medical Home- Reynolds Army Community Hospital, and Urgent Care Clinic on Fort Sill, OK an Army post in Lawton Oklahoma. Providing primary care to military spouses and children for three years. Dr. Lee relocated to Wynne Arkansas with her husband, Dan Messner, and three children (Daniel, William and Mia), to work for Forrest City Medical Center – East Arkansas Family Medicine and Wound Care Center, as well as being a supervisor/collaborating physician to three nurse practitioners in their clinics (urgent care, family practice, and wound care).
Dr. Lee resumed her military service after four years of medical school, serving in the Oklahoma Army National Guard as military provider with the rank of Captain. While serving with OKARNG, Dr. Lee was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan in 2010; and mobilized to CB-WTU, Rock Island, IL in 2013- serving the wounded soldiers coming back from Afghanistan. After serving a total of 20 years in the Army National Guard, she retired from OKARNG on July 15th, 2018 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Dr. Lee left Hawaii in 2001 as a college graduate and is now back home as an experienced family physician and retired LTC of the Army, who desires to give back to her home state what she has learned the past 17 years. She recently joined the practice of Dr. Lund’s at Trade Winds Family Medicine in Kailua on July 16th, 2018. Her family lives in the same neighborhood that she grew up in, to be closed to her extended family including her mother, 7 siblings, nieces and nephews in Honolulu- which she proudly refers to as ‘HOME’!
Megan Bradham, MD
Dr. Bradham is a board certified family medicine physician and
the newest family medicine physician to join Trade Winds Family Medicine. She enjoys caring for all ages with comprehensive primary care and has a passion for lifestyle medicine with a focus on plant-based nutrition. Lifestyle medicine uses evidence based therapies to treat, reverse, and prevent disease using principles of living such as eating a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, getting regular physical activity, getting adequate sleep, and managing stress in a healthy way.
She is was born in Alexandria, Virginia and completed her undergraduate education at Clemson University (Go Tigers!). She then attended medical school at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville where she met her husband and was awarded the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. She graduated from the family medicine residency program at Prisma Health-Upstate in 2020 as a Chief Resident and was honored with the Outstanding Resident Award by the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians. Throughout residency and medical school, she has attended conferences and programs to grow in knowledge of lifestyle medicine including ACLM’s national conference and Dr. John McDougall’s program in Santa Rosa, California. She is excited to be here in Hawaii and part of the Trade Winds team!
Gabrielle Garcia, PA-C
Gabrielle Garcia is a board-certified Physician Assistant. She was born and raised in Kailua, Hawaii and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii. She received her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. She received board certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Gabrielle enjoys the comprehensive scope of family medicine. Her previous work experience included community health primary care. Gabrielle has strong interests in preventative medicine, women’s health, and pediatrics. She is an advocate for patient-centered care and prioritizes patient comfort. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending quality time with her family, traveling, experimenting with new recipes, and freediving.
Despite becoming a diehard Steelers fan, she is happy to have returned home to provide medical care to the community she cares deeply about. She is excited to join Trade Winds Family Medicine!
Trade Winds Family Medicine accepts most major insurance plans.
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