Atisa Kareer, MD

University of California - Riverside School of Medicine. Atisa grew up in Los Angeles after moving to America at a young age from Nepal. She studied physiological sciences at University of California, Los Angeles. In college, she discovered her love for medicine and for serving the unserved population through the Mobile Clinic which provided medical and social services to the unhoused population in Los Angeles. She continued to serve the underserved through various free clinics in medical school as well. 

Women’s health and advocacy is also one of her passions. As a board member of American Women’s Medical Association, she led the effort and wrote the proposal to implement free menstrual products in men’s, women’s, & gender-neutral bathrooms on campus on behalf of AMWA, which was subsequently passed by the Medical Student Counsel as a new policy. She also organized and mediated the AMWA Talk in Menstrual Dignity, attended by over 40 medical students from UCR to discuss how menstruation is viewed in various cultures around the world. After suffering menstrual restrictions as a child, herself, she became involved in an organization working to dispel myths regarding menstruation. She has been volunteering with Radha Paudel Foundation/ Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation for over a decade to bring awareness to menstrual discrimination in Nepal and worldwide. Through this organization, she has hosted talks at local communities and universities in the UK, America, and Nepal to help menstruation be a more dignified process. As an immigrant and woman of color, advocacy for marginalized groups especially in healthcare will always be a priority for her.

​Her love for interacting with patients and host of experiences as a minority woman will assist her in her journey for taking care of people from all walks of life with equity and compassion as a family medicine doctor. She is excited to join the Sutter Santa Rosa family where she can share her passions and grow holistically as she begins the next stage of her medical training. In her free time, you can catch her playing soccer, baking goodies or playing board games with her loved ones.