1949
Born to Elwyn Rogers and Aletharae Rogers in Gillett Grove, IA.
1969
Earns an AA in general science from Rochester State Junior College (now known as Rochester Community and Technical College).
1971
Earns a BA in philosophy and general science from the University of Iowa.
1975
Obtains an MD from the University of Iowa; Completes a residency in family medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill by 1978.
1978
Completes a residency in preventive medicine and a senior fellowship in family medicine at the University of Washington (UW) by 1980.
1980
Earns an MPH and is acting assist. prof. of family medicine at UW; Is a medical officer for U.S. Public Health Service Hospital until 1981.
1982
Serves Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as an assistant and assoc. prof. of family medicine and director of its predoctoral program until 1987.
1987
Becomes a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and American College of Preventive Medicine.
1987
Serves the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) as director of the predoctoral program until 1999 and as associate professor of family medicine until 1995.
1992
Serves BCM as director of academic family medicine fellowship until 1994 and vice-chair & professor until 1997.
1997
Is vice-chair for education until 2007 and a professor in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at BCM until 2014.
2002
Is named to Best Doctors in America through 2014; Receives three Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Awards from BCM.
2004
Is named Favorite Professor in Family Medicine by the BCM Class of 2004.
2005
Earns an MEd in administration and supervision in higher education from the University of Houston; Receives the Resident Appreciation Award.
2006
Receives the Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson Jr. Presidential Award for Excellence in Education from BCM.
2008
Is the interim chair of the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at BCM until appointed executive vice-chair in 2010, serving until 2014.
2011
Is named Physician of the Year by the Harris County Academy of Family Physicians.
2011
Is guest co-editor of the dedicated issue of Family Medicine on Education and the Patient-Centered Medical Home.
2014
Practices as a professor of family medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University until 2017; Is named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor.