Faculty
Program Director
Tara Scott M.D., Program Director
Tara Scott, M.D. has served as Program Director since June 2017. She is a native of southern California who came north to college at Berkeley. Originally drawn to the arts, she received her BA... more »
Associate Program Director
Cheryl (Cherie) Green M.D., Associate Program Director, Director of Adult Inpatient Medicine
Cheryl Green, M.D. Associate Program Director and Director if Inpatient Medicine, has been on the faculty since 2006. She was raised in Berkeley and therefore didn’t have to travel far when she graduated from... more »
Core
Allison Bacon M.D., Director of Leadership and Professional Development
Allison was born in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in rural Washington State, bottle-feeding baby goats and planting ponderosa pine trees, when she wasn’t playing softball. She also spent years abroad, in Malawi... more »
Jenny Fish M.D.
Jenny attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and graduated from SRFMR in 2012. Afterwards, she spent 4 years at a rural FQHC in Cloverdale where she built and maintained their OB program,... more »
Cheryl (Cherie) Green M.D., Associate Program Director, Director of Adult Inpatient Medicine
Cheryl Green, M.D. Associate Program Director and Director if Inpatient Medicine, has been on the faculty since 2006. She was raised in Berkeley and therefore didn’t have to travel far when she graduated from... more »
Mariah Hansen Psy.D., Director of Community Medicine
Mariah Hansen, PsyD graduated from Mills College, with a BA in international relations, and the Wright Institute where she received her doctorate in psychology. For the past decade, she has been a behavioral medicine... more »
Douglas Jimenez M.D.
Douglas Jimenez, M.D. grew up in the Bay Area and went to medical school at UC San Francisco. After completing his residency in Family Medicine, he did a fellowship in Obstetrics. His interests include... more »
Veronica Jordan M.D., M.S.
Veronica Jordan, MD MS graduated from the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program in 2007 before moving to Santa Rosa for residency training, and she’s been in Santa Rosa ever since. She spent almost seven... more »
Wendy Kohatsu M.D., Director of Integrative Medicine Fellowship
Wendy Kohatsu, M.D. is a “yonsei” –4th generation Japanese American, raised in the wild suburbia of Los Angeles, with roots tracing back to the island of Okinawa. She received her medical degree from UCLA... more »
Panna Lossy M.D., Women's Health Coordinator
Panna Lossy, M.D. Women’s Health Coordinator, is a graduate of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program and completed her residency in Santa Rosa. She is interested in all aspects of women’s health and cross-cultural... more »
Joseph Matel M.D., OB Faculty
Joe Matel, MD, grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota. He did undergrad at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. Joe then took a few years to travel the world, lived and loved Australia, surfed sometimes,... more »
David Schneider M.D., Conference Coordinator
David Schneider, M.D. Medical Student Clerkship Coordinator, escaped the Los Angeles area sprawl, but not the scorching heat, when he migrated to Merced for his residency. He subsequently became a “knight-errant” physician in Sacramento,... more »
Tara Scott M.D., Program Director
Tara Scott, M.D. has served as Program Director since June 2017. She is a native of southern California who came north to college at Berkeley. Originally drawn to the arts, she received her BA... more »
Mark Sloan M.D., M.P.H., Director of Pediatrics
Mark Sloan, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Pediatrics, has been a pediatrician for 35 years. He practiced with Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento and Santa Rosa from 1982 to 2014 and was Chief of Pediatrics from... more »
Danny Toub MD, AAHIVS
Danny teaches population health and quality improvement at SRFMR. He is a clinician at Santa Rosa Community Health, and has been teaching residents about HIV, STDs, TB, Viral Hepatitis, and Quality Improvement since he... more »
Michael Valdovinos PsyD, ABPP, Behavioral Medicine Faculty
Michael was born in Santa Rosa, California, and grew up along the Russian River, surfing, BMX riding, and sifting through soul and funk vinyl at record stores across the Bay Area, when he wasn’t... more »
Community
Ty Affleck
Dr. Affleck is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Medical College of Virginia. While completing a Family Practice Residency in Colorado, he became affiliated with the Olympic Training Center in... more »
Laurie Cederberg M.D.
Laurie Cederberg, M.D. is a graduate of UC San Francisco Medical School. She was a family medicine resident at Ventura County Medical Center and served as chief resident in 1990. In 1991 she moved... more »
Gerald (Jerry) Eliaser M.S., M.D.
Gerald Eliaser, M.S., M.D. became interested in medicine while going through Navy flight training experiencing the human-machine interface in unusual environments. He did his pre-med studies by correspondence on an aircraft carrier. Upon discharge... more »
Jared Garrison-Jakel MD, MPH
Hometown: Thermal, CA Undergrad: Pomona College, 2005 Other Degrees/Fellowships/Affiliations: MPH, UC Berkeley, 2009 Work Experience: Russian River Health Center, 2013-present Interests in Medicine: Rural Medicine HIV care/PrEP Social Determinants/Poverty and Health OB Suboxone Interests... more »
Karen “Kai” Gelphman M.P.H., M.D.
Karen Kai Gelphman, M.P.H., M.D is a University of Washington graduate and completed her FP residency at Santa Rosa. She completed a family medicine fellowship in 1996 and then taught part-time at the Residency.... more »
Christoph Gelsdorf M.D.
Christoph graduated from the University of California, San Francisco and completed his Family Practice residency at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. Christoph lives in Myanmar where he is helping to introduce Family Medicine... more »
Karl Greer M.D., Integrative Medicine Fellow 2015-2016
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Karl was born in Texas, but always enjoyed a California state of mind. Some roadside attractions along the way to the Golden State were a childhood in... more »
Fasih Hameed M.D., Fellow, Integrative Medicine 2008-9
Fasih A. Hameed, MD, ABIHM Director of Integrative Services, Petaluma Health Center, Petaluma, CA Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF- Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Fasih was born and raised in New Jersey, but always knew... more »
Jeannie Pflum D.O., M.S.
Jeannie Pflum, D.O., M.S. is a graduate of the University of Des Moines, Iowa in medicine and Health Care Administration in 1997. She completed her Ob/Gyn residency at University of Vermont in Burlington, VT... more »
Jeffrey Pierce M.D.
Jeffrey Pierce, M.D. is a native of South Texas and graduate of Baylor College of Medicine. He did his family medicine training in Santa Rosa and graduated in 2007. His first job after residency... more »
Matthew Pride M.D.
Matthew B. Pride, M.D. is a graduate of University of Washington School of Medicine. He completed a family medicine residency at Ventura County Medical Center in 1995 with an interest in rural, underserved and... more »
Jeffrey Sugarman M.D., Director of Dermatology
Dr Jeffrey Sugarman received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in neurobiology. He received an NIH medical scientist training grant and completed his MD and PhD (in biomedical science) at UC San Diego. He... more »
Veronica Vuksich D.O.
Veronica Vuksich, D.O. is a graduate of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and the Family Medicine Residency in Santa Rosa. She is a preceptor in the outpatient clinic, does locums in... more »
Steven Wolf M.D.
Steven Wolf, M.D. is a graduate of Finch University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School and completed his Family Practice residency at the Carle Clinic in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. His strengths include a solid background in... more »
Robert Woodbury MD, FACS
Dr. Robert Woodbury is member of Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods, and specializes in bariatric, gastrointestinal, and oncologic surgery. He is the chairman of Surgery at Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, and director... more »