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THIRD YEAR RESIDENTS

	Allison Bacon, MD Allison was born in a nondescript house in San Bernardino, California, and later attended medical school a few miles down the road. In the intervening years, she lived in Malawi and Costa Rica, developing an interest in international medicine, and rural Washington State, learning to appreciate the value of family medicine and to operate a chainsaw. She loves being outdoors and such pursuits as mountain biking, skiing, backpacking and tree climbing. Medical interests include the underserved, wilderness medicine, and preventive care. She also enjoys improvisational acting, travel, goat husbandry, and spending time with her husband, Aaron, and son Aidan.


	Alicia Cohen, M.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Long having felt the Northwest calling, Alicia is thrilled to finally be moving to the Left Coast and Santa Rosa. Passionate about women's health, integrative medicine, and working with the underserved, Alicia took the "scenic route" through medical school. She spent a year in Jerusalem working with Israeli and Palestinian survivors of domestic violence, and another two years on a project to reduce disparities in care for women with breast cancer in East and Central Harlem. In her spare time, Alicia can often be found singing, writing music, dancing, cooking, and getting her hands dirty. She is especially looking forward to growing her vegetables in real soil, rather than on a Manhattan fire escape.


	Andrew Cunningham, M.D. Graduate of the University of Louisville; Andy enjoyed his last few years among family and friends back home in the bluegrass state. His decision to pursue medicine came on the heels of a couple great years of post-college exploration, during which time he tasted soymilk for a living, read a lot about Buddhism, and hitch-hiked around Patagonia. With interests in integrative and cross-cultural medicine, he has studied botany, traditional Tibetan medicine, and mind-body modalities during school. A longtime gardener who truly believes nutrition and lifestyle modification are the best medicine, he is thrilled to land in Northern California, where climbing, surfing, photography, and music will keep him active in his free time.


	Annemieke de Lange, M.D. Graduate of Loma Linda University. From trekking in the jungle to climbing glaciers to skydiving, Annemieke is always looking for a new adventure. She also views her professional life as an adventure and is especially passionate about integrative medicine, evidence based nutritional and herbal medicine as well as women’s health. Annemieke plans to practice international medicine in the future and has done training in wilderness/expedition medicine. In addition, she loves to work with athletes of all kinds and enjoys training for triathlons herself, as well as many other outdoor activities.


	Connie Earl, D.O. University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine; After nine years of migrating between Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine, Connie is ecstatic to be reuniting her husband, Russ, with his childhood home north of the Bay. Connie has worked as a doula, providing labor support and childbirth education to mothers and families; she organized national workshops on leadership, activism in medicine and integrative health care; and believes in the power of community. She is thrilled to be joining the community here in Santa Rosa. Connie's professional passions include holism, reproductive health care, traditional healing modalities, natural childbirth and pregnancy, and addressing health care disparities. To balance her overachiever tendencies, she loves playing outdoors with her brilliant husband, card games and crosswords, cooking, big dinner parties, playing her conga drums poorly and sleeping in with her cat.


	Gabriel Flaxman, M.D. Gabriel grew up in northern California and went to UC Berkeley. He left Cal with a degree in History, a love of the Sierra Nevada, and a passion for telemark skiing. He pursued the latter for a year of endless winter before moving to the self proclaimed “Greatest City in America” to complete his postbac studies. After a year back in the western mountains working with the Park Service he migrated east for medical school. He is thrilled to put a hold on transcontinental road trips- for a while, and call Santa Rosa home. Gabriel is interested in palliative care, reading, cooking and being outside whenever possible.


	Rachel Friedman, M.D. Graduate of Yale University: The improbable product of a hippie American nurse and an Israeli rock star, Rachel grew up along the Jersey Shore with a strong belief in serendipity, a passion for both healing and music, and an unlikely yen for hummus and olives. As an undergrad at Harvard she studied the history of science with an emphasis on mind-body medicine, and decided she wanted to be a holistic physician-scientist-healer who could incorporate the best of biomedicine with the wisdom of other medicinal traditions. After spending two years sharing her love of biology and a cappella at a high school in North Carolina, she arrived back in the Northeast for medical school, intent on maintaining her passions for nutrition, integrative medicine, and rewriting song lyrics. Although she’s going to miss her East Coast family and friends and the joys of curling up with a good book in the middle of a snowstorm, she is nevertheless thrilled to be leaving cold winters behind for year-round mountain biking, trail running, and gardening and vegan cooking with her boyfriend Daniel.


	Catherine Hurley, M.D. Graduate of Jefferson Medical College – Catherine (known to friends as Trina) grew up with her three brothers in New Mexico, Colorado, and California’s Sierra Foothills. College lead her to UC Santa Cruz where she majored in physical anthropology, but spent much of her time rowing on the Monterey Bay, being an RA, a nanny, and playing ultimate. After five years in San Francisco, first as a “dot-commer” and then working in the community health system, Trina ditched the West Coast for med school and developed her interests in chronic disease management and women’s health. In her spare time, Trina likes to hike with her husband and dog, practice yoga, cook healthy meals and unhealthy desserts, and spend time with her family.


	Sharon Lin, D.O. Sharon loves observing how people live and being present to hear their stories. She studied Nutrition at UC Davis, Public Health at Columbia, and Osteopathic Medicine at Touro in an effort to inch closer to the art of healing and gather tools to promote holistic wellness. In addition, she delights in the topics of social entrepreneurship, smart urban planning, Oprah, creative resourcefulness, the immigrant experience, political salons, traveling, and community-building/social capital. Sharon is the daughter of a Traditional Chinese Medicine practicing father and an arts and crafts-loving mother, sister of a talented teenager, and is newly married to her college-sweetheart.


	Ele Lozares-Lewis, M.D. Ele worked in cafes and had a catering business in San Francisco in the 1990s, intent on studying film production until her life spiraled out of control, leaving her living out of abandoned warehouses and depending on soup kitchens—but it was there that she discovered her interest in human behavior. Eventually, she and her future husband left the city for Southern California, where they cleaned up, started remodeling kitchens and went back to school. Ele studied neuroscience at UCLA—sure that she was going to have a life in drug addiction research. However, the laboratory proved to be less exciting than the UCLA Mobile Clinic, which served the homeless population of Hollywood. Working with family physicians there inspired her to pursue a career in medicine where she could focus on homeless health care, HIV medicine and addiction medicine on a more personal level than from a lab bench. Ele loves cooking for her family and friends, reading, surfing and playing with her amazing daughter—and has another one on the way!


	Daniel Parker, M.D. Born in central California, Dan grew up in an agricultural area at the heart of the immigration debate. His experiences growing up led him to further Spanish studies during his undergraduate years, and more importantly to yearly medical missions trips in Honduras through his local church. While in Honduras, Dan was overwhelmed with the need of the community and felt compelled to use his gifts where there is greatest need. At Tufts University, Dan received his MPH degree and hopes to combine the power of public health with medicine to effect change at the community level. He also hopes to pursue a sports medicine fellowship. Dan is married to a Hungarian American and is actively trying to learn Hungarian. He and his wife are involved in the local church. He enjoys biking, soccer, rock climbing, hiking, playing board games, and gardening.


	Heidi Reetz, M.D. Graduate of Johns Hopkins; Heidi was born and mostly raised in the rural Dakotas, and then headed slightly east to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Feeling her education had only begun, she hitched up with the Peace Corps and went far east, to Chongqing, China—a sometimes delightful city—to teach environmental education at a medical school. After two years of growing steadily envious of her students, Heidi returned to the U.S. to move to Baltimore and study medicine herself. After a few years enjoying the east coast, she is excited to now experience some west coast culture (and weather). Her professional interests include environmental and integrative medicine and development of sustainable health care systems. She also enjoys fiddling, yoga, cooking, other people’s poetry, sewing and most other crafts, and travel.


	Lucia Roncalli, M.D. American University of the Caribbean: Lucia feels like she’s come home again. She grew up in Marin long ago when that meant dairy ranches and the Nike base on Tam, and spent the rest of her life until now being a Californian manqué all over the United States as well as in Central America, the Netherlands Antilles, South Africa, and Ireland. Before going to medical school, she taught comparative spirituality and ethics and worked as an out-of-hospital midwife—usually simultaneously. She always told those who feared she might have a split personality that these were just two aspects of the same thing: theory and practice, as it were. This residency program is the perfect place for her, as her medical passions include integrative medicine, humanitarian work with and on behalf of the world’s most underserved, and the notion that birth, healing and death can be transformative journeys. Non-medical passions include her kids, friends and family, movies, wilderness, scuba diving, spirituality, and open-mouthed wonder at the comedy, poignancy, and sheer astonishment that being alive entails.


	Anabel Ruiz, M.D. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Anabel was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. For College, Anabel stayed local, attending Stanford University. During her college years, she danced Ballet Folkorico Mexicano and discovered her interest in international health, public health, and infectious diseases. She moved to Baltimore, MD for medical school. During her third year, Anabel discovered Family Medicine during an international rotation in Honduras. Her interests include Latino health, infectious diseases, community medicine, and international health. In her free time, Anabel enjoys knitting, cooking, hiking, and spending time with family and friends.


	Lindsay Zeichner, M.D. University of Washington, School of Medicine: Growing up in the suburbs of San Francisco Lindsay was always seeking adventure. She worked in her community to feed homebound AIDS patients before taking off for Mexico, where she drove down endless coastline, rescued her first puppy, and developed an appreciation for fresh tortillas. Next she drove north until the sun turned to rain and she settled in Seattle. She studied and drank coffee and hiked in the mountains and became a doctor. Always a seeker of adventure, she traded her rain boots for ice skates and moved to Minneapolis to work in an inner-city community and experience a Minnesota winter. Now that the ice has melted, she is happily moving out west again to soak up some sun and live close to her family. In her professional life she enjoys teaching and caring for patients throughout all phases of life. She is passionate about reproductive health, adolescent medicine, mental health, and end of life care.


SECOND YEAR RESIDENTS

	Natasha Bernard, DO Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Natasha was born into a family of healing hands and spent her childhood among the serene desert landscapes of Phoenix, Arizona. She fell in love with the bay area while studying Biochemistry at Mills College and returned several years later to attend Osteopathic Medical School, blending her eclectic upbringing with traditional Western medicine. Natasha is thrilled to continue her training as a member of the Santa Rosa family and reunite with her politically-minded partner, Andre. Her professional goals include developing and teaching Osteopathic Manipulation skills and empowering women from all walks of life to make healthy choices.


	Jenny Cecilia Fish, M.D. University of Minnesota Medical School; Jennifer grew up in South Dakota, spent over half of her life in Oregon, and was happy to return to the Midwest for medical school. The highlights of her experiences there include doing a nine-month rural rotation (RPAP) and participating in various student activist groups. However, she has missed the energy, rivers, mountains, and people of the West Coast and is very excited to move back! Her main passions involve humanism in medicine and experiencing the power of the human story and the resilience of the human spirit. She considers her role as a healer to be based on nearing witness to, and attempting to alleviate, the story of human suffering and has dedicated herself to a life of serving the underserved, locally, and globally. She loves traveling, especially throughout Latin America, writing, learning photography, white-water rafting, good company and heart-felt conversation.


	Christoph Gelsdorf, M.D. UCSF; Christoph grew up in Houston, TX, and on Long Island, NY. After undergraduate studies in New England, he worked in Management Consulting, helping corporations with business development and growth strategies. A career adjustment lead to a job as an EMT in Alameda County, CA, followed by postbaccalaurete studies at Bennington College, VT. During medical school he focused on equitable access to medicines for poor countries and university support for community-based organizations. He was also deeply involved in a variety of community health and natural disaster recovery projects in Burma and its border states. Personal interests include current non-fiction, city walking tours, contemporary migration politics, Houston professional sports, California road trips, and movie editing.


	Ellen Green, M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School; Ellen, a native of Massachusetts, is thrilled to joining the Santa Rosa community! From her first experience with the clinical medicine, when she spent a college summer traveling from home to home with the Health Outreach Nurse in rural Costa Rica, to her most recent experiences working in Community Health Centers, Ellen has discovered her passion for helping medically underserved patients access comprehensive health care. Her professional interests include reproductive health, breastfeeding support, community medicine and, Medical Spanish. In her spare time, Ellen enjoys knitting, hiking, sharing meals with friends and family, and spending time with her husband.


	Kari Harris, M.D. University of San Diego School of Medicine; Kari grew up in Northern California, just south of the Oregon border, and has been working her way southward ever since. She spent four years at UC Davis and then moved on to UC San Diego for medical school. While she has enjoyed the San Diego sunshine and delicious fish tacos she is looking forward to bouncing back up to Northern California and becoming part of the Santa Rosa community. Her professional interests include women’s health and rural medicine. In her free time Kari enjoys reading, playing the piano, being outside and eating all sorts of food.


	Colleen Harrison, M.D. Harvard Medical School; Colleen is a small town girl from the mountains of Colorado. After high school she spent a year in South Africa and another in Colorado, playing and teaching outdoor sports. At the University of Colorado she earned a BA in International Affairs, spent a year in Argentina, and wrote a thesis comparing work hours in the U.S. and Europe. In Argentina, Colleen was inspired to pursue a career of service through medicine. Her interests include health policy, nutrition, and mind and body medicine. Colleen is a National Health Service Corp Scholar and plans to participate in a rural, under-served area. She speaks Spanish and loves to use it. When not working, Colleen enjoys hiking, rock climbing or horseback riding by day, salsa dancing by night.


	Jessica Les, M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine; Jessica was raised in Madison, Wisconsin and spent much of her childhood outside, in all weather. After college in Iowa, she grew tired of 6 month-long winters. Jessica’s public health work took her to the warmer climates of Nicaragua and Uganda and ultimately to England for an MPH at the London School. She then made the big trip west for medical school at Stanford and is thrilled to be coming up the road to join this wonderful community in Santa Rosa. Jessica is passionate about women’s health, infectious disease, patient and community empowerment, and behavioral health. In her free time, Jessica enjoys writing, making art, sewing poorly, hiking, and camping in a warm sleeping bag.


	Joanna Mandell, M.D. UCSF; Born and raised in LA, Joanna has happily called Northern California her home for most of the past 11 years. She extended med school by two years in order to spend time abroad, staffing medical clinics in East Timor, studying yoga and ayurvedic medicine in India, and working on her Masters thesis in Brazil. Aside from international health and integrative medicine, she loves music, cooking with friends and hiking, and is possibly happiest when learning and speaking other languages. Despite diagnosis (by her parents) with a serious case of wanderlust, she is truly looking forward to settling down in the north bay for the next few years. When not doing any of the above, she generally spends her time wondering why she wasn’t born in the tropics and occasionally stays up till sunrise psytrance dancing in the desert.


	Michelle J. Mertz, M.D. University of Vermont College of Medicine; Raised in Cherry Hill, NJ, Michelle migrated to Madison, WI for college. Six years and many badger games later, she began medical school in Vermont, surrounded by an exceptionally warm community of people. There her sea kayak became her most sacred of study spaces. But a growing fear that years of multiple-choice exams had cramped her thinking style inspired Michelle to live throughout Asia for a year. Creating her own curriculum, she found herself delivering babies in her bare feet in Thailand, performing pelvic exams at 13,000 feet in the Himalayas, befriending Tibetan monks, and exposing herself to much of the history that her textbooks omitted. Michelle returned to complete two years of Ob-GYN residency at Brown. However, her thrill at mastering pelvic surgery became shadowed by the realization that she would not nurture her interests in medical education, integrative practices, environmentally sustainable “green” medicine, and LGBT care. Now also certified in acupuncture, Michelle joins family medicine with the same continued passion for women’s wellness, but eager to explore its limitless boundaries. Michelle is thrilled to move to Sonoma, despite a decade-long commitment to acquiring enough cold weather gear to play outside year-round. Outside of medicine, Michelle wanders through farmers’ markets, attempts to capture the most striking travel photos, paddles, hikes, bikes, cooks, and laughs with friends.


	Katie Noyes, M.D. Dartmouth Medical School; Katie grew up in the Chicago suburbs, daughter of a business guru and nurse practitioner. Sunny CA called and she moved west to attend Stanford. Upon graduation in 2000, she worked as a Back roads guide in the national parks and as a ski instructor in Jackson Hole. Eventually, Katie packed up her skis and bikes, and drove to the woods of NH to start medical school. She focused her energy on improving health care in rural VT & NH. Katie also loved trail running, x-c skiing, and playing pond hockey (poorly) right out her backdoor. She especially enjoyed traveling Latin America, and teaching high school in Kenya. Katie plans to provide care in resource-poor areas locally and globally. While at Santa Rosa, she hopes to ski Tahoe, climb Shasta, practice yoga, host yummy potlucks, and visit her family at New Orleans Jazz Fest. Professional interests include rural medicine, mental health, palliative care, health literacy, and the ultimate trio of health policy, human rights and social justice.


	Kamin VanGuilder, M.D. University of Nevada School of Medicine; Kamin was born and raised in Reno, Nevada where she completed her undergraduate and medical studies. She has had a passion for medicine for as long as she can remember and is very excited to be part of the Santa Rosa family! Before medical school, Kamin worked as a medical assistant for many years while raising a wonderful son. Her professional interests include integrative medicine, women’s health, and community medicine with a focus on treatment of underserved populations. She likes to hike, dance, read, drink good wine, and spend time with friends and family.


	Jimmy Wu, M.D. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Jimmy was born and raised in the beer-moving city of Milwaukee. Through college, he realized that despite growing up in the Midwest, his heart truly belonged on the West Coast. After five years studying medicine and public health in Madison, he is super psyched about joining the Santa Rosa family. Various out-of –class experiences that sustained him throughout medical school helped to uncover passions for integrative medicine, international health, and working with underserved communities. He hopes to eventually receive additional training in traditional Chinese medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys running, exploring the outdoors, dancing (clubs and formal), his enormous DVD collection, chilling with good company, and of course his Guitar Hero/Wii.


FIRST YEAR RESIDENTS

	Cathryn Christensen, MD Harvard Medical School; Cathryn grew up in Brunswick, Maine and studied anthropology and sociology at Williams College. In medical school, Cathryn enjoyed working alongside dedicated local staff at the newly opened Village Health Works clinic in Burundi, caring for patients longitudinally at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts, and being inspired by unsung community health workers in various settings. Cathryn's interests include medical ethics, improving patients' primary care experiences, innovative uses of patient-centered technology, home-based care programs, and extending palliative care access in resource-poor settings. Personal interests include development economics, social entrepreneurship, languages, dancing, and being on or in the ocean.


	Parker Duncan, MD, MPH UC Irvine; Social justice, “single-payer”, medicine as service to community – and a conviction that the counter-culture foundation of Family Medicine is uniquely poised to promote systemic change towards the three. Parker’s path to Santa Rosa included an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf; work as a bilingual mental health counselor in the Mission District of San Francisco; then, at UCI, being part of the inaugural cohort of PRIME-LC, a program designed to prepare physician-leaders to work in and for the Latino community. Yoga, travel, friends and family fulfill his “outside medicine” life.


	Jared Garrison-Jakel, MD, MPH UC Irvine; Jared hails from a dusty patch of California desert where he learned to love books, open spaces and purpose-driven careers from his social worker mother and RN father. An eighth generation Californian, he has chased educational opportunity up and down the state, and is thrilled to be joining the Santa Rosa community where he hopes to actively comingle his experience in leadership, advocacy and public health with the womb-to-tomb family medicine he’ll be practicing as a rural doc. Professional interests include social epidemiology, active listening, end-of-life care, community empowerment, community-based participatory research and holistic approaches. Personal ventures include the great outdoors, indulging his addiction to famers’ markets, swimming, weaving and the cultivation of wellness, community and vegetables.


	Hana Grobel, MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Hana has always been fascinated by the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures, as the daughter of a Japanese mother and American father. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she moved to the East Coast to attend Amherst College, where she majored in psychology. Intrigued by the mind/body connection, she spent a year in Japan to study and practice Zen meditation, learn about nutrition and health, and teach English. She returned to the U.S. for medical school in New York City where she continued to cultivate her interest in different healing modalities by founding an Integrative Medicine interest group, and spent much of her time learning about the art of healing. Hana is very excited to return to California and hopes to one day integrate her passion for Eastern and Western medicine into her practice as a physician. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, cooking (and eating!), meditating, running, yoga, and playing the piano and Japanese taiko drums


	Christine Hancock, MD UCSF; Christine was raised between high desert plains and towering granite peaks in Lone Pine, CA. Her forest ranger turned school employee parents taught her the importance of service and the environment, two things which continue to inform her life today. She spent a year at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, before transferring to Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, PA, where she started a wilderness orientation program, studied in Bolivia, and realized she wanted to study medicine instead of science. Before medical school, she worked as a grocery bagger, substitute teacher, web designer, EMT, Medical Assistant, and Outward Bound instructor. After tiring of living in a new place every few months, she completed a joint MS/MD degree at Berkeley and UCSF, focusing her research on rural physician recruitment and retention. She is very excited to be moving to Sonoma County and putting down roots for a few years, and finding space for a little dog-walking, cake baking, bike riding, skiing, yoga, mandolin lessons and family time in between taking care of patients.


	Anthony E. Lim, MD Boston University School of Medicine; Anthony grew up in sunny San Diego. Upon graduating from Stanford, he went on an extended “journey” that included learning Mandarin and traveling in China for one year, working as a management consultant, obtaining a law degree, and teaching 5th through 8th grade math as an AmeriCorps volunteer. After much soul searching, he realized his true calling lay in medicine, and is thankful to have found Family Medicine, the one specialty that seems to capture all his life experiences. He looks forward to a career that combines patient care, clinical teaching, and working with the underserved. After ten long, cold winters in Boston, Anthony can’t wait to come back home to California with his wife, Jean, and 2-year-old son, Joshua. Outside of work, his interests include hiking, biking, learning guitar, and getting involved with his local church.


	Laura Martin, MD Boston University School of Medicine; Laura was born and raised in sunny Alicante, Spain. After 12 years of French school she left her amiguitas for NJ, played on her first soccer team, and took off for college at Brown where she fell in love with medicine as an interpreter, played soccer and learned to cook with Emily. The next year she discovered RI as an asthma educator at the Olneyville Health Center. She did home visits, outreach, and saw lots of cockroach droppings. Then, off to medical school in Boston to learn, find new restaurants, and explore. Now, she’s super “stoked” to experience the West Coast for residency. Her interests include women’s health, community medicine, delivering care in a patient’s own language, medical education, cooking, eating, dancing, biking, tennis, and anything outside with her honey.


	Sarah A. Murphy, MD University of Washington School of Medicine; Sarah was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and spent much of her early years playing in the snow, catching salmon and camping around the state. She ventured East for college at Harvard University, where she was introduced to mind body medicine and cultural differences in healing. Medical school brought her back West. There she was able to explore and develop professional interests in public health, prevention and integrative medicine. Sarah and her husband are excited to explore California, attempt to garden and drink good wine. She loves to spend time with her family, hike, fish, travel, quilt and read


	Mary Puttmann, MD, MSC Georgetown University; The oldest of seven, Mary was raised in Cincinnati on local delicacies such as Skyline chili and Graeter's ice cream. College brought her deeper into the Midwest to St. Louis University where she studied international politics and languages and met her husband Matt. Through traveling and working on development projects she found her calling in providing health care. In the year before medical school she completed a masters in Health, Community and Development at the London School of Economics where she was first introduced to participatory research and empowerment theories. Her professional interests include international health, migrant health, immigration, HIV, peer education, community health center organization and social justice. She also enjoys cooking, skiing, anything outdoors, spending time with her family, cards, board games and playing the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira.


	Emily C. Shaw, MD Brown Medical School; Emily started life in sunny San Diego playing soccer and softball, swimming and camping with family. After high school she moved on from carefree tomboyhood and zoomed off to college/medical school at Brown University. In little ol' Rhode Island she cultivated her personhood, played more soccer, fell in love with her best buddy Laura (lucky it was mutual!), explored the seasons, and expanded her palate. After her 3rd year of medical school the happy couple moved to Boston where Emily taught motivational interviewing and became passionate about helping people make positive life changes. Emily also loves reproductive health, eliminating health disparities, LGBT health, integrative medicine, cooking, eating, growing food, biking, birding, soccer, tennis, live music and enjoying life to the max!


	David Stromberg, MD University of New Mexico; Life prior to the Sequoias, Great White Sharks and Sutter Medical Center included: Growing up in Albuquerque, working as a climbing instructor and coach, studying birds and Spanish in Costa Rica, increasing awareness about Fair Trade, training community health workers in Guatemala and Kenya, advocating for universal health care with AMSA and changing university policy regarding conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. Underlying David's passion for medicine is an interest in the underserved, public health, women's reproductive rights and rural medicine. Outside of the clinic, he enjoys climbing, knitting, cycling, gardening, birdwatching and sailing


	Trang Vo, DO Touro University; Trang is thrilled to be joining the wonderful community at Santa Rosa. She was born in central Vietnam and started exploring the world at the age of six as an immigrant to the US. She was fortunate to develop her interests in travel, language, and medicine as an undergraduate at Wellesley College. Still equipped with a hunger for exploration (as well as for self-exploration), she went on to rediscover her Vietnamese roots back in Vietnam while hiking its mountainous trails and while interning at the UNAIDS program there. Her international health pursuits broadened during medical school at Touro University's international health program where she recently developed health care access and poverty relief projects in Tanzania. She is excited to pursue her medical interests in underserved communities locally and abroad, women's health and osteopathic medicine at Santa Rosa. In her spare time she enjoys reading, hiking and salsa dancing.

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