“Health is more than just healthcare, it is about finding your community, your tribe”
— Tina Lierman, Physician at theSPACE
Providers
Dr. Jon Woo
Dr. Woo began his medical career by providing healthcare for the Dine (Navajo) in Shiprock, New Mexico. He would later shift directions focusing on teaching, first as Clinical Assistant Professor with the Medical College of Georgia and Mercer University School of Medicine where he was Assistant Program Director of the Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency and its Sports Medicine Fellowship, then the only program of its kind in Georgia; and later with the University of Washington. Over his career, he as lectured nationally on a broad range of topics in sports medicine and graduate medical education, and has helped foster the development of over 100 residents and sports medicine fellows, and countless medical students.
Dr. Woo has a special interest in endurance sports, directing the Human Performance Lab at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, and for many years hosting a high altitude running camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico with elite Kenyan runners.
He is a Founding Board of Director of the non-profit, Seattle Dance and Performing Arts Medicine that provides free injury consultation for performing artists in the greater Puget Sound area.
Always an English major, he is still at work on his Great American Novel.
Dr. Tina Lierman
Dr. Lierman is an osteopathic family medicine physician who graduated from Western University of Health Sciences COMP-NW and completed residency training at The Wright Center GME. She teaches family medicine residents and serves at a local community health center in South King County.
Dr. Lierman started dancing at a young age performing ballet, tap and jazz. She continued with ballet and pointe at Cornish College of the Arts. She now dances for fun. She volunteers as a physician for the Seattle Dance and Performing Arts Medicine Clinic. In her spare time, she explores the beauties of the Pacific Northwest through hiking and snowshoeing with her friends and family. She practices yoga in all aspects of her life and has traveled to India to receive her yoga teaching certification.
She believes good medicine is open and honest communication between the patient and medical provider to create a balance of the mind, body, and soul.
