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`Visionary' physician Kerns dies at 85.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 27-JUN-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: `Visionary' physician Kerns dies at 85.(Vitals)(The doctor founded Serenity Lane, which has treated thousands for addiction)(Obituary)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard

Dr. Thomas Kerns, a physician who touched the lives of thousands as the founder of Eugene's Serenity Lane treatment center for alcoholics and drug addicts, died Saturday of renal failure. He was 85.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday at St. Paul Catholic Church in Eugene.

Kerns "was a visionary, extremely determined and dedicated, yet at all times very humble," said Neil McNaughton, Serenity Lane's longtime executive director. "He had tremendous compassion and energy."

A self-effacing general practitioner, Kerns moved to Eugene from Grants Pass in 1949, practicing at the Eugene Hospital and Clinic, where he became a partner.

A quiet trailblazer in medicine, he was among the...

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