When I am not working I love live music (all kinds), performing surgery, sailing, hiking in the mountains, running, classical music (especially Dvorak), reading, scuba diving, wine, Italian food, hanging out with family and friends. My main interest is simple: loving people and reducing global poverty.
Music
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Everclear, Needtobreathe, Over the Rhine, 3 Doors Down, Dvorak, Adele, Fugees, Lifehouse, Matchbox 20, Justin Timberlake, OneRepublic, Amr Diab, The McCloskey Brothers Band, Foo Fighters, John Gregory, Ben Brittsan, Five for Fighting, Santana, Queen, Metallica, Brian Bryne, Alex Lloyd, Ben Harper, Jason Mraz, Greg Laswell, Angels and Airwaves, The Ataris, Jack Johnson, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Dashboard Confessionals, Greenday, Jimmy Eat World, Sister Hazel, Jars of Clay, Black Eyed Peas, Bond Girls, Low Stars, Little Big Town, Rascal Flats, Carbon Leaf, Cold Play, Counting Crows, Keith Urban, Maroon 5, Hootie and the Blowfish, Eve 6, Ben McReynolds, Rikki Jo Hickey, Dave Matthews Band, Ronnie Day, Miggs, Sugarland, Goo Goo Dolls, Gavin DeGraw, Third Eye Blind, The Fray, Nickelback, Matisyahu, Pearl Jam, The Wallflowers, The Doors, The Pretenders, The Who, Vivaldi, Bob Dylan.
Movies
Waiting for Guffman (thank you Farm House girls), The Man from Snowy River, I Heart Huckabees, Beyond Borders , Mangal Pandey (Indian), Sahara, Love Actually, Interpreter, The Peacemaker, Terminator 3, The Red Violin, Indiana Jones (all), Unbreakable, Stranger Than Fiction, True Lies, Finding Nemo, Lord of War, Protocol, Lord of the Rings (all), Hotel Rwanda, Spanglish, Star Wars (all), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Balzac and the Little Seamstress (Chinese), Sleepless Nights (Egyptian), What the Bleep?, Entrapment, Meet Joe Black, Can't Hardly Wait, The Goonies, Proof of Life, Life Aquatic... this is an ever-expanding list.
Television
Trauma: Life in the ER, Arrested Development, Gray's Anatomy, The Office, Food Channel, Lonely Planet, Entourage, National Geographic Explorer, and Saturday morning cartoons.
Books
Mountains Beyond Mountains (by Tracy Kidder, a book about a hero of mine: Dr. Paul Farmer), The Alchemist (a incredible fable by Paulo Coelho), The Divine Pity (Gerald Vann), Blood Brothers (Elias Chacour), Contact (Carl Sagan), Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat), Icon (Fredrick Forsythe), Gulliver's Travels (Jonathon Swift), Celebration of Discipline (Richard Foster), Shiver (Nikki Gemmell), The Adventures of Miles and Isabel (Tom Gilling). Books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Love in the Time of Cholera (thank you Bryan Free). Books by Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christian, The Stories We Find Oursevles In. Books by Michael Crichton: Timeline, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere. Books by Clive Cussler: Inca Gold, Raise the Titanic, Serpent, Sahara, Cyclops. I also love the poerty of Rudyard Kipling, E. E. Cummings, and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Heroes
My parents: My dad because he was in Iraq making the world a better place, and my mom because she is at home making our lives better. Also, my friends: Giovanni and Caroline because they have each quit their boring office jobs to take a risk and pursue their dreams. I cannot forget Valerie, that saucy X-pat, artist, full-of-attitude bar owner in Guatemala, who makes travelers feel at home everyday. Another hero of mine is my patron saint, Panteleimon, for reminding me what that practice of medicine is all about.
Matt Gerber's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
La Grande, Oregon
Body type:
6' 5" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Children:
Someday
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Global Citizen
Matt Gerber's Schools
Portland State University
Portland, OREGON
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: In Progress
Major: Public Administration (Global Leadership & International Project Management)
Clubs: Rotaract Club
2004 to 2006
George Fox University
Newberg, OREGON
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: International Studies, Buiness & Pre-Med
Clubs: Rotaract Club
Student Alumni Counsel
Cross country
KFOX Student Radio
Student Ambassadors
1999 to 2003
La Grande High School
La Grande, OREGON
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
My name is Matt Gerber. "A simple pig farmer," is often how I refer to myself, half in jest and half to pay homage to my rural upbringing. While we did in fact have pigs, we also had a host of other animals as well. However now, instead of getting up at 5 AM to milk the goats and collect the eggs, I am now heading to the airport. I love adventure. Questions about me? Just ask.
Who I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet Jeffery Sachs, John Prendergast, Paul Farmer and Robert Bach. I totally respect these guys. Also, I just like to meet new people. I am fascinated by people and their stories.
I like Indiana Jones, microbrewed beer, fencing, peanut butter, rock climbing, writing and scuba diving (in no particular order and not necessarily together). If you like any of these things--or none of these things--drop me a line and say hello.
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The above video is of me in the Sidamo coffee growing region of Southern Ethiopia. It was editted by Ryan Johnson as part of the Completing the Circle: Coffee program.
Thanks for the pic compliment, my friend, you are so nice :) I wear contacts but they are not colored or anything...just my blue eyes ;) So, Big Sky, eh? It is beautiful there - now I have an excuse to go back - to visit you!! When do you come to Chi again? Don't come til at least May if you don't want to freeze... ;)
good to hear from ya brotha! I am still holding down the fort in Beijing...its been a pretty crazy year for me too. Who knows when I will be makin it that way, but let me know if you got any upcoming trips to asia planned. OR I might just have to head up to Montana for a visit...chew some tobacca, drink some berrr, n shoot some guns!
That is SOOO exciting! Hope all is going well, and that he arrives quickly and healthy! I think birth is one of GOD's greatest miracles. Congradulations to you, and to his parents. Have a very Merry Christmas! --Dorothea
hey cousin! i hope you are doing well, and that montana is treating you good. have you decided if you will be spending christmas in oregon? it would be wonderful to see you and share witty comments about our eccentric family which we love dearly. lol let me know. have a wonderful friday!
Its been good to finally hear from you. Hope you are doing well... Miss you bro and hope you will make time in your busy schedual to come see us sometime if you dont come down for thanksgiving.
hello dear cousin, how might you be. I hope the winter isnt kicking in too hard up in the great northern wilderness. Anyways, let me know how you are and if you have spoken to anyone( ie my sister) about a south of the border trip
