Meet Dr. Lena Elizabeth Gowring

Dr. Lena Elizabeth Gowring moved to the Idaho Falls area after completing 10 years active duty service in the Air Force Dr. Gowring completed medical school at Des Moines University in 2008. After finishing a surgical internship year at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio Texas, she completed the USAF Aerospace Medicine Primary Course and served as a flight surgeon for 3 years. She was stationed at McConnell AFB in Wichita Kansas serving at the flight surgeon for the 350th Air Refueling Squadron. During this time she deployed over seas to serve in Operation(s) enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom from 2009–2012.

Dr. Gowring was then selected for dermatology residency training at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, in San Antonio, Texas. She served as the chief resident during her last year and earned board certification July 2015.

She comes to the Idaho Falls area from Keelser Medical Center Biloxi MS where she severed at the chief of dermatology for the last year, and associate professor of dermatology affiliated with Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD for the last 3 years. During this position she taught internal medicine residents, physician assistant and nurse practitioner students as they came through dermatology on rotation.

Dr. Gowring is a board certified dermatologist and a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society of Dermatologic Surgeons. She is also an active member of the Association of military Dermatologists.

Dr. Gowring enjoys practicing all aspects of dermatology. She moved to the area with her husband John and their two children.