Healthy Food and Beverage Standards

Born and raised in Petaluma, Dr. Dhanda will be entering her third year of family medicine residency at Natividad Medical Center (NMC), the Central Coast's only teaching hospital. NMC services primarily Latino patients - including many patients of indigenous backgrounds. Dr. Dhanda chose family medicine because of its emphasis on prevention. At NMC she provides culturally sensitive care to families from Salinas and throughout Monterey County. Monterey County has higher rates of childhood obesity compared to other California counties; for her community project on obesity prevention, Dr.

Dr. Johnson has lived most of her life in the northeast San Fernando Valley. After receiving her medical degree from UCLA, she did residency at Children's Hospital in Oakland, where she learned about the importance of addressing health beyond treating the acute illness. Determined to return home and give back to her community, Dr. Johnson became a pediatrician at Northeast Valley Health Corporation, the same FQHC that she visited for immunizations as a child. From 2001-2005 she was an asthma champion, collaborating with the health department to improve asthma care for pediatric patients.

Dr. Hsiao was born in Taiwan and spent part of his childhood in Monrovia, Liberia, before moving to Southern California. After majoring in Political Science at UC Berkeley, he earned an MPH with an emphasis on dental health, a Juris Doctorate with a healthcare focus, and then attended dental school at UCSF, followed by general practice residency at Community Medical Centers and the VA in Fresno. Dr. Hsiao will soon be faculty at UCSF, where he has already received two research fellowships.