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  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
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      • CEDAWG
      • Faculty Diversity & Culturally Responsive Medicine
    • Partners
    • Press & Media
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  • Meet Us
    • Faculty
    • Residents
    • Staff
    • Alumni
  • Programs
    • Addiction Medicine Training
    • ALSO Course >
      • ALSO Registration
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      • ALSO Course Faculty
    • Community Engagement
    • DrEAM Pathways >
      • Future Faces of Family Medicine >
        • FFFM How to Apply
      • Roseland Elementary
      • Bayer Farms
    • HIV Training
    • Pregnancy Care Conference
  • Clerkship
  • Applying
    • Where We Work
    • Living In Santa Rosa
    • How We Learn
    • What We Learn >
      • Curriculum
      • Resident Core Rotations
    • Electronic Brochure
  • Rural Training Track
  • Integrative Medicine
    • IM Overview >
      • IM Wellness
      • IM Experience
    • IM Fellowship
    • IM Faculty & Fellows
  • Provider Resources
    • Integrative Medicine Handouts
  • Quicklinks
    • New Innovations Login
    • SSRRH Grand Rounds
    • Lawson
    • SRCH Remote/eCW
    • USMLE
    • COMLEX Step 3
    • Clinic Library
    • QGenda
    • SRCH Relevant
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Press & Media

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The Next Generation of Abortion Doctors Train in California
​Bloomberg US Edition - July 2022
​Excerpt: When Anita Vasudevan started her residency at Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine in July 2020 to become a primary-care doctor, “it kind of felt natural to me to include abortion care as part of that,” she said. “A lot of times, we are the first provider who sees a patient when they find out that they are pregnant, and we are the person who is counseling them on their various options.”  Read more.

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Close to Home: Access to health insurance saves lives
Press Democrat - Opinion - May 2022

Written by Dr. Toub: "As a family doctor practicing in Santa Rosa for 20 years, I have witnessed how insurance coverage brings stability and vitality to patients. But our fragmented employer-based system of insurance coverage leaves people vulnerable, and many of them die because they cannot access health care." Read more.
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Close to Home: COVID remains an occupational hazard
Press Democrat - Opinion - Feb 2022
Written by Dr. Lossy: "While no one is more tired of this pandemic than health care providers, the announcement that mask mandates are ending has left many health care providers, health care organizations and community-based organizations very concerned." Read more.
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County of Sonoma COVID Vaccine info videos featuring SRFM Residents
Fall 2021
R3, Lucia Agudelo, and R2, Jesse Perez, worked with the county in creating informative videos for the public about the COVID vaccine.
English version
Spanish version
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Future Face of Family Medicine Program Breaks Barriers
​Spring 2021
"To date, we have supported over 103 scholars through our pathway programs over the past 8 years. We are proud to share that our 2020 FFFM alumni survey showed that 53 percent of our alumni are currently pre-med students with hopes of going to medical school"

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LandPaths Partners with Sutter Family Medicine Residency
LandPaths - April 2021

Over the last five years, residents have done stewardship in the garden, offered free health information sessions in Spanish for anyone who wants it, and led workshops for youth that have them making smoothies using bike power, and learning about careers in medicine.
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A Santa Rosa doctor's grueling year on the front lines battling COVID-19
Press Democrat - March 2021

One of her greatest challenges, as both a teaching and a practicing physician, Jordan said, was figuring out how to "speak with confidence, when you're still learning, yourself, about the thing you're speaking about? How do you help patients understand their prognosis when you're still learning about the disease they have?"
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'The only way out of this': Sutter frontline workers get COVID vaccinations
Press Democrat - December 2020

Family Medicine Residency residents and faculty in the local news upon being some of the first to receive the COVID vaccine in Sonoma County. 
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INTERVIEW: Dr. Jenny Fish On The Role Employers Need to Take to Limit Spread of COVID-19
KSRO Dec. 2020

SRFMR core faculty member and H-PEACE founder, Dr. Jenny Fish, talks with local radio about the vaccine shipments, inoculations, safety/effectiveness, workforce concerns and employer responsibilities.​
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Wine Country Mentoring Program Helps Teens See Medicine as Career Path
North Bay Business Journal - June 23, 2020
"Physicians in Sutter Health’s Sonoma County family medicine residency program not only have young people as patients but also engage with them through Doctors Educating, Advocating and Mentoring (Dr. EAM) Pathways—a comprehensive health care pipeline program that recruits and enrolls minority youth who are underrepresented in medicine. This program addresses education disparities and enhances career opportunities." Read more.
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Pregnant Women in Sonoma County Filled with Hope, Fear Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Press Democrat - April 8, 2020
"Lund understands the frustrations of her fellow professionals who do not have all of the answers about a new virus. But she also understands the desires of an expectant mother seeking as much information as possible to keep herself and her baby safe: Lund is almost six months pregnant with her second child." Read more.
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On Coming Home After The Fires
Annals of Family Medicine - Jan 2020
"I had no idea of the challenges that lay only a few months ahead of us, when our community was struck by the devastating Tubbs fire, a catastrophe that left our program—and hundreds of our patients— without a home." Read more.
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Preventive Health Overseas: Obesity in Paradise
Sonoma Medicine, Winter 2019
“If a Cook Islander is interested in talking with a physician about healthy diet and exercise, it can be a tough proposition.” Read more.
Family Planning Overseas: Vasectomy Mission to Cap-Haitien, Haiti
“Family planning not only prevents maternal, infant, and child deaths, but also empowers women to engage fully in socioeconomic development." Read more.
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Community Health Centers Adapt, Improvise Amidst Chaos
Sonoma Medicine, Winter 2018
"Working together, Santa Rosa Community Health pulled off a miracle and offered all 36 residents a continuity site at other clinics in Santa Rosa. Clinics were consolidated, but patients were seen!" Read more.
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Gender Terminology 101: Language Is Key
Sonoma Medicine, Spring 2018
"Most importantly though, providers should both use and reflect the language their patients use." Read more.
Shedding a Light on the Transgender Population
"The last decade has highlighted evolving notions about what it means to be a man or a woman and the meanings of transgender, cisgender, gender non-conforming, queer, agender, and more." Read more.
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Santa Rosa Safety Net Responds to the Wildfire Disaster
California Health Care Foundation Blog - Oct 2017
"On Sunday, the first night of the wildfire, flames quickly surrounded the Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, and it was clear that the need for evacuation was urgent." Read more.
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Santa Rosa Doctor Utilizes Culture in Patient Treatment
Press Democrat - August 30, 2016
"Every culture has a system of beliefs to explain what causes illness and how it's treated; the trust and rapport patients have with their doctor goes a long way toward helping them recover." Read more.
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