After medical school at UCSF and residency at San Francisco General Hospital, I went on to work for public health clinics in the San Francisco area.  I especially enjoyed the staff and patients of Maxine Hall Health center where I took on a permanent position for nearly three years.  During those years I completed a Master's Degree in public health at UC Berkeley and then a research fellowship in the UCSF Family Practice department.  My mentor was Dr. Paula Braveman, a fantastic researcher who showed me that one can successfully combine a commitment to social justice with academia.  I learned about race, ethnicity, use of secondary data sources and immigrant health during that period.  Subsequently I went on to work for the Indian Health Service in Crownpoint, a rural Navajo town in New Mexico.  I work there was mainly clinical.  Nevertheless my research training helped me to study the relationship between active management of third stage of labor and postpartum hemorrhage.  Recently I have had two small children and moved to Seattle where I work for a non-profit HMO, Group Health.  I am not currently pursuing research, however, I imagine there will come a time again when I will use skills learned during my research training.

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