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| Katya Adachi, MD | Aaron Greenblatt, MD | Laura Martin, MD | | Natasha Bernard, DO | Ann Griego, MD | Michelle J. Mertz, M.D. | | Alison Block, MD | Hana Grobel, MD | Trevor J.V. Moerkerke, MD | | Cathryn Christensen, MD | Christine Hancock, MD | Sarah A. Murphy, MD | | Hana Clark, DO | Kari Harris, M.D. | Katie Noyes, M.D. | | Parker Duncan, MD, MPH | Colleen Harrison, M.D. | Mary Puttmann, MD, MSC | | Yael Eskinazi, MD | Scott Karpowicz, MD | Emily C. Shaw, MD | | Jenny Cecilia Fish, M.D. | Ember Keighley MD, MPH | David Stromberg, MD | | Adam C. Francis, MD | Jennifer King, MD | Kamin VanGuilder, M.D. | | Jared Garrison-Jakel, MD, MPH | Jessica Les, M.D. | Trang Vo, DO | | Christoph Gelsdorf, M.D. | Anthony E. Lim, MD | Sarah White, DO | | Ellen Green, M.D. | Joanna Mandell, M.D. | Jimmy Wu, M.D. |
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THIRD 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. | | | | | | |
SECOND 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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FIRST YEAR RESIDENTS |
|  | Katya Adachi, MD UCSF; Katya was born and raised in the Bay Area. As an undergrad at UCLA she studied molecular biology and discovered her passion for social justice. She happily returned home for medical school. Grateful for her opportunities in higher education, she has remained dedicated to serving her community. Through mentorship and leadership, she has worked to develop environments that are supportive of American Indians and other students of color. Through a career in medicine and public health she hopes to help empower the underserved and affect change in the system in order to return our communities to wellness. She balances these passions by spending time with family, watching sunsets, running, learning beadwork, listening to music, and dancing. | | | | |  | Alison Block, MD UCSF; Ali spent the first 22 years of her life on the East Coast, growing up in New York City and attending college at Yale University. After graduation, she packed up her station wagon and enthusiastically drove across the country to "sunny" California. After getting over the initial shock of a cold, foggy summer in San Francisco, Ali promptly fell in love with the Bay Area. She spent a few years working at local health service organizations before starting medical school at UCSF. During medical school she took a year leave to pursue a research project in South India focusing on the impact of HIV on women's reproductive health. She is excited about the broad scope of family medicine, and also has particular interests in reproductive health, mental and behavioral health, and public health and health policy. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, backpacking, skiing, reading, cooking, yoga-ing, swimming, and hot tubbing. | | | | |  | Hana Clark, DO Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine; Hana was raised in a small Midwestern town where her father practiced integrative medicine by incorporating principles of Ayurveda into his practice. Later, during her senior year of college, Hana traveled to India for six months where she volunteered in a local hospital with women and infants. This background inspired her to pursue an education in medicine and explore her interests in integrative medicine and women’s health. Before returning to school at Mills College to complete her premedical studies, Hana worked for Outward Bound in Colorado, traveled and volunteered abroad in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Southeast Asia, and worked in a community health care clinic in California. Her medical interests include integrative medicine, women’s health, and international medicine. She hopes to have the opportunity to provide care to underserved populations both at home and internationally. Outside of medicine she enjoys outdoors activities, gardening, cooking, travel, and spending time with her family; husband, Dave, son, Lucas, and their two dogs Kasha and Riley. | | | | |  | Yael Eskinazi, MD University of Maryland School of Medicine; Yael grew up in suburban Maryland, punctuated with summer trips to France to visit her "pied noir" relatives. After studying anthropology as an undergrad, she moved to Marseille where she got a degree in medical anthropology and taught English. Studying anthropology made her realize that she wanted her place in medicine to be more practical than theoretical, and she decided to embark on the medical path, making a brief stop at Goucher's postbac program where she met Aaron. In medical school, Yael became interested in women's health, continued to be passionate about integrative medicine, and developed an interest in global health through her travels within and outside of the U.S. She is very excited to be moving out West where she hopes to spend much of her free time outdoors. She also loves laughing with her family and riding on the back of the tandem. | | | | |  | Adam C. Francis, MD University of California Irvine; Adam spent his formative years sunny New Mexico, before heading to Duke to study public policy and economic development. After college he fell in love with family medicine and the incredible community built by a student-run free clinic in San Diego. In med school Adam was lucky enough to find a cohort of students focused on social justice, community-based health, and general rabble-rousing. Health promoters in California and Mexico introduced him to empowerment pedagogy, which he unoriginally suspects is the unified theory of social, organizational, and personal change. His passions include women’s health and OB, chronic disease management, and the transformation of safety-net primary care, which he spent two years studying in Michigan. Other things that make him happy include spending time with the people he loves, being outdoors, and food. | | | | |  | Aaron Greenblatt, MD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Aaron grew up in Berkeley, California. After getting a history degree at Yale he traveled to Timbuktu before moving back to the Bay Area to pursue a livelihood as a jazz pianist. Seeking a career of service, he joined Peace Corps and was posted to a small town in Mali, where he worked with women with obstetric fistula and practiced his Bambara on a local FM station. During medical school he continued to play piano, traveled to Chiapas, the Navajo Nation, and Mali to further his education, and got married. His professional interests include health disparities, the doctor-patient relationship, bioethics, and mental health. He loves Point Reyes, burritos, and taking long rides on the tandem. | | | | |  | Ann Griego, MD UCSF; Born in the East Bay, Ann studied Anthropology at Yale - a discipline that fed her interest in stories and revolutions - and led her to Latin America where she coordinated AIDS education programs in the Dominican Republic, studied breastfeeding in Chiapas as well as work in Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Desiring political change back home, she worked with public schools in Portland, OR and at an abortion clinic in Oakland, CA - though she found that her work as a house painter paid better. She is interested in models of care that empower the patient and build community and hopes to put into practice the Centering groups she studied for her master's thesis at Berkeley. She relishes occasions to laugh loudly, be barefoot, and her partner, Steve. | | | | |  | Scott Karpowicz, MD Georgetown University School of Medicine; Born and raised in San Francisco, Scott grew up exploring the cultural landscape and beautiful surroundings of the Bay Area. Some of his fondest childhood memories are of canoeing down the Russian River and hiking the redwoods of Sonoma county. Although he left his heart in San Francisco, Brown University drew him east to study International Relations. After college and an unsuccessful attempt to satiate his travel bug, Scott landed in our nation's capital set on preparing himself for a career in primary care at Georgetown University. Scott is thrilled to be returning back to his native Bay Area and joining the Santa Rosa community. He is passionate about practicing holistic, whole-person oriented primary care focused on prevention, wellness and harnessing the strength of the physician-patient relationship. Outside clinic, he enjoys all things food and cooking, gardening, meditating, running, music and sampling the outstanding selection of local wines and micro-brews. | | | | |  | Ember Keighley MD, MPH University of Michigan Medical School; Ember grew up in rural Rhode Island and learned how to take care of horses, dogs, chickens and cats way before she could cross a street. During undergraduate at Brown University she spent time in the Samoan islands and found her love for global health work. While doing her MPH in global environmental health at Emory University, she studied water quality in Mongolia. After heading to Michigan for medical school, she traveled to Ghana where she worked in maternal health and to the Hopi Reservation where she saw the enormous breadth of possibility within family medicine. Ember is passionate about working to improve health and access to healthcare in underserved communities locally and globally. Beyond clinical and public health work she loves running, biking, swimming, hiking, backpacking, kayaking, gardening, cooking, and almost anything that involves being outside in the brilliant sunshine. | | | | |  | Jennifer King, MD UCSF; Her early roots in Minnesota, Jennifer mostly grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Sensing that her true home was further west, she headed to Reed College in Portland, OR for studies in literature and biology. After college she worked in neurobiology research on stroke, coordinated a tattoo removal program for former gang members, worked with homeless youth and took in as much northwest scenery as possible. Craving one last east coast hurrah, she completed a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail before moving to San Francisco for medical school. There she continued to pursue her interests in community medicine and underserved populations, studying housing for homeless elders and participating in PRIME-US. She is thrilled to be joining the family in Santa Rosa and building on her passions for geriatrics and palliative care, integrative medicine, mental health and community development. Her favorite things include long jaunts in the mountains, baking crusty bread, knitting, laughing loudly, growing vegetables, writing and getting to spend time with her husband, Harry. | | | | |  | Trevor J.V. Moerkerke, MD Oregon Health & Science University; Trevor was born in Montana and grew up all over the country before ultimately landing in the frozen tundra of northern Wisconsin. While studying Spanish & Linguistics at UW-Madison he developed a passion for the underserved as a medical interpreter and headed west for medical school at OHSU. There he discovered family medicine as the best medium to provide comprehensive care to the underserved during experiences both in the Portland area and while abroad in El Salvador. He is excited to stay on the West Coast as part of the supportive residency community in Santa Rosa. His professional interests include caring for the underserved, clinical teaching, and health policy. Outside of medicine, Trevor likes to spend time with his wife, Samantha, travel, run, stay involved in social & political advocacy, & follow Wisconsin sports. | | | | |  | Sarah White, DO University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine; Sarah is a Mainer at heart, having grown up in Bangor and returned to southern Maine for medical school after studying psychology and neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. She has always known primary care was her path, and after working in special education for a couple of years, she was happy to enter to the challenging and rewarding career of medicine. During medical school, she was lucky enough to spend an extra year as a teaching fellow in anatomy and osteopathic manipulative medicine, during which time she was able to pursue her passion for teaching while improving her skills in osteopathic manipulative treatment. Living with Type 1 Diabetes fuels Sarah’s passion for empowering patients to take personal responsibility for their health through education, and emphasizing the importance of physical activity, eating well, and finding balance. Sarah finds balance through yoga, running, biking, chasing frisbees, whacking golf balls, traveling to places far away and near, and laughing with friends and family. Growing up in Maine instilled a love for the outdoors, especially the mountains and ocean, and having spent her whole life in the lovely but chilly northeast, Sarah is thrilled to be moving out west to sunny Santa Rosa. | | | | | | |
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