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Dr. Kristin Sweeney is a pediatrician who practices at the San Mateo Medical Center in the Coastside Clinic in Half Moon Bay. Since graduating residency, Dr. Sweeney has dedicated her practice to serving in federally qualified health centers to predominately low-income, MediCal eligible populations. Prior to and during medical school Dr. Sweeney, participated in a variety of global health efforts in Latin America..

Dr. Melanie Thompson has been practicing at Marin Community Clinics (MCC) since she finished her residency, and is now the Medical Director of the San Rafael Clinic. Her practice is informed by whole person care and social determinants of health, as well as her lived experience with diabetes in her family. She is interested in how depression and trauma may affect obesity, and is looking for solutions to chronic disease outside of the exam room.

As a primary care pediatrician, Dr. DiPierro is devoted to community health and addressing the upstream causes of childhood obesity, prediabetes, and dyslipidemia. Since 2013 she has worked at Ravenswood Family Health Center (RFHC), an FQHC that serves mostly Latino and Tongan immigrants in East Palo Alto. Dr. DiPierro is eager to connect with the community in the same way she had during medical school at Brown University, and subsequent residency training at UC Davis. Time and again, the parents of Dr.

Dr. Borovina grew up in San Mateo County. While obtaining her undergraduate degree from UC Davis, she worked with California Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity and Nutrition), a Sacramento-based program of the Public Health Institute which aims to advance nutrition policy in schools and early childcare settings. Thereafter, Dr. Borovina completed medical school and pediatric residency training at UCSF. Inspired by the multi-disciplinary approach of San Francisco General Hospital's Healthy Lifestyles Clinic (HLC), she started an HLC for San Mateo Medical Center in 2005.

Dr. Beck completed her residency with UCSF’s Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program, and was also a chief resident at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). She subsequently completed a General Academic Pediatrics research fellowship at UCSF and joined the UCSF General Pediatrics faculty in 2014. In her capacity as a clinical researcher, Dr. Beck focuses on primary care-based interventions to prevent obesity in low-income children and also studies novel interventions for obesity treatment in underserved pediatric populations.

Dr. Clarke's passion for medicine and service began during her freshman year of college, when she traveled to Kenya on a mission trip. After working in an orphanage for AIDS victims and a safe house for Maasai girls, Dr. Clarke decided to dedicate her career to health care promotion in underserved communities both locally and abroad.  She attended medical school at Loma Linda University (LLU) in San Bernardino, followed by residency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  In keeping with her passion for medicine and service, Dr.

Dr. Shaw was born and raised in Calistoga (Napa County), where the local economy is based largely on agriculture and hospitality. Many of Dr. Shaw’s lifelong friends and neighbors were Latino immigrants. After receiving her medical degree at UC San Diego and doing residency in Ventura County, she returned to the Napa Valley to work at a community health center. Dr. Shaw continues to practice in the North Bay; her career is motivated by social justice and “small town values,” which include staying engaged and accountable to the community in which she lives. Since 2012, Dr.

Dr. Hessel has been a pediatrician at Marin Community Clinics for the past 13 years. Although she finds direct patient care rewarding, she understands the importance of addressing the larger issues that impact a patient's health. In her current role as lead pediatrician, Dr. Hessel collaborates with different local organizations to strengthen the safety net in Marin County which, despite its overall affluence, has many working-poor residents and one of the greatest disparities in life expectancy nationally. Dr.

An East Coast native, Dr. Siegel’s father was a dedicated gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins University. The early death of his father gave Dr. Siegel empathy for the losses of others, and inspired him to become a family physician serving vulnerable communities. Since 1999 he has worked at Contra Costa Health Services in Richmond and San Pablo, where he has gone beyond the clinic walls to support the social determinants of his patients’ health. Dr. Siegel has led a Medical-Legal Partnership at the clinic and helped start an on-site Farmers’ Market.