General Practitioners

• Osteoporosis
• Arthritis
  Chronic Illness: Cardiovascular Disease (Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Coronary Artery Disease), Diabetes Mellitus II, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Obesity, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Back Pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Sinusitis
• Medical Weight Loss
  Dr. Chern has special interests in obesity prevention and treatment and has an added certification by the American Board of Obesity Medicine (2016). She leads the “Healthy Living” group visits in the residency clinic and loves organizing resident wellness events, chasing after her twins (who are usually fleeing in opposite directions), and adding to her collection of patterned shoes, cowboy boots, and running kicks.
• Rheumatology
  Electives allow residents the opportunity to tailor their educational training to fulfill their individual career plans. Available electives include Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM), Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Gerontology, Hematology, Homeless Shelters/Community Medicine, Men’s Health, Neurology, Oncology, Pathology, Podiatry, Pulmonology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Urology, and Women’s Health, among others. Residents see patients in various community clinics and in the private offices of these sub-specialists. Rotations are also often arranged at O’Connor Hospital and other institutions, including Kaiser-Santa Clara Hospital, Palo Alto Veteran’s Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and Stanford University Medical Center. During their third year, residents may participate in a one-month “away elective” - either nationally or internationally. Past away rotations have included: Wilderness Medicine in Alaska, Dermatology in Hawaii, Medical Spanish in Mexico, Informatics at Stanford University, and Third World Medical Care in Peru, Vietnam, and the Caribbean island of Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras.
• Pediatric Care
  The residents on the Obstetrics/Pediatrics rotation are responsible for the primary medical care of patients admitted to these services at O’Connor Hospital. Medical issues presented to the residents include prenatal complications (e.g., hyperemesis gravidarum, pre-eclampsia, and gestational diabetes), labor evaluations, deliveries, routine newborn care. During this rotation, residents also conduct pediatric and NICU admissions at O'Connor Hospital and learn how to manage common inpatient pediatric and NICU conditions such as asthma, pneumonia, seizures, and sepsis.
• Primary Care
  The Integrative Medicine in Residency (IMR) curriculum is an online 200-hour program from the highly regarded Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. It is offered to selected residents as a one-year track and seeks to introduce residents to topics relevant to primary care.
• Smoking Cessation
  During the Ambulatory Medicine rotation, residents spend an increased amount of time providing medical care at various outpatient clinics. These clinics may consist of the Family Medicine Center, the San Jose City College Student Health Center, the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) Allergy Clinic, and SCVMC PACE Clinic (an HIV/AIDS Clinic). Residents also learn how to facilitate group visits (Pain Clinic, Diabetes Group, Smoking Cessation, Chronic Opioid Pain Education, Pediatric Obesity, and Healthy Living classes) during this rotation, as well as learn about Skilled Nursing Facility care under the supervision of our faculty Dr. Frances Sun – an ABFM diplomate with a CAQ in Geriatric Medicine. Additionally, all residents participate in the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) curriculum, carrying out their own clinic-based QI projects.
• Family Practice
  We provide a four-week Family Medicine elective for interested fourth-year medical students. Interested applicants should apply through Stanford School of Medicine: https://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html.
• Emergency Care
  The Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care rotation provides supervised experience in the O’Connor Hospital Emergency Room, urgent care clinics, and Stanford Express Care Clinics managing the medical care of a variety of patients: from the simple, acute problems of “urgent-care” patients to the more complicated, life-threatening problems of major trauma patients.
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Pneumonia

Ophthalmologists

• Ophthalmology
  We have eight 3-hour workshops with self-assessment quizzes focused on each body system throughout each academic year (cardiac, renal, GI, DVT, shoulder, etc.) to learn ultrasound fundamentals with scanning practice. All residents use the Butterfly actively in all rotations, ranging from the ICU, ED, inpatient procedures, and in the outpatient setting. Our goal is to utilize ultrasound as another tool in our diagnostic arsenal. For example, in our outpatient clinic, we can reduce antibiotic use by ruling out sinusitis, expedite treatment by diagnosing pneumonia, and improve continuity care by confirming intrauterine pregnancies. In the inpatient setting, we can track the diuresis for our CHF patients and identify RV strain to diagnose pulmonary embolism. Recently, a resident diagnosed retinal detachment in a stroke rule-out patient with visual loss and was able to emergently refer them to ophthalmology.

Gynecologists

• Gynecology
  Residents on this rotation work in a variety of outpatient Gynecology clinics in the greater San Jose area and learn to perform basic Gynecological procedures such as colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, and other minor Gynecologic procedures. During this rotation residents work at sites outside of the VMC system and are not in the Obstetrics night call schedule at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
• Obstetrics
  Most of our residency graduates work as employed physicians within multi-specialty groups in the Bay Area, both in private practice/academic institutions and community clinic settings caring for the insured as well as underserved populations. About one per year pursue fellowship training. Some have joined our faculty or have taken faculty positions with other residency programs or medical schools. The majority of our graduates work in outpatient settings with some continuing hospital work and prenatal care/obstetrics.
• Labor and Delivery
  During the first year of their training, our residents rotate through Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) labor and delivery unit for additional obstetrical experience. This county hospital provides a high-volume obstetrical experience, with low, moderate, and high risk patients. Patient care is supervised by various Obstetricians, Perinatologists, Obstetrical Residents, and Family Medicine Obstetrical Fellows. During this rotation residents learn the treatment of life-threatening antenatal problems, active management of labor, and performance of normal and complicated deliveries. This includes assisting on Cesarean sections.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  In 2017, we piloted an exciting addition to our didactic curriculum during our 2.5 hour block didactics. Designed to model Problem-Based Learning in medical schools and the Tulane Internal Medicine Residency Program “Friday School,” our Mystery Cases encourage teamwork, case-based learning, cost-conscious health care, self-directed learning, and peer teaching of clinical pearls.
• Gastroenterology
  In the Ambulatory Pediatrics rotation, residents work in the Indian Health Center Pediatric Center for Life (an outpatient pediatric clinic for underserved pediatric patients in the community), the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic, and various other outpatient subspecialty pediatric clinics in the area. This includes such subspecialties as Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Gastroenterology.
• Urology
• Nephrology
  Kaiser Santa Clara consists of a new 327-bed general hospital and office complex that provides health care for approximately 289,000 members, approximately 20% of which are under 18 years old. The pediatric service in which we participate includes a 26-bed pediatric ward and an 8-bed Intensive Care Unit. At Kaiser, our residents are exposed to the oldest and most efficient managed care system in the United States today. Faculty at Kaiser Santa Clara include pediatricians with subspecialty interests in Pediatric Surgery, Neurology, Pulmonary, Cardiology, Nephrology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Disease, Gastroenterology, Critical Care, and Rehabilitation Medicine. Kaiser Santa Clara is located less than 5 miles from O’Connor Hospital.
• Urinary Tract Infection
  Acute Care Topics: Back Pain, Urinary Tract Infection, Gastroenteritis, Otitis Media, Vaginitis, Chest Pain/GERD, Upper Respiratory Infection

Neurologists

• Neurology

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Stress Management
  Dr. Sazima has worked with medical residents in training since 1991. He is board certified in Psychiatry (1993-present) as well as Geriatric Psychiatry (1994-2006). His work with the residents has included lecturing and precepting, as well as helping to integrate stress management techniques such as meditation into clinic programming for patients and into resident training. Recent academic publications and presentations include works on doctor/ “difficult” patient relationships and incorporating meditation training into outpatient clinical practices. In addition to his teaching role, he has practiced general adult psychiatry practice since 1991, providing psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and stress management training. He also served in a series of clinical leadership and administrative roles, including Medical Director for Outpatient Services and Department Chair at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose from 1994-2001. In 2001, he moved his practice to Roseville, CA while continuing in his teaching position in San Jose. Dr. Sazima resides in Granite Bay, CA, with his wife, Tracy Brown Sazima, MD (a family physician at Kaiser Permanente, Folsom), and three sons. He volunteers his time as a board member at Capital Public Radio in Sacramento and Snowline Hospice in Diamond Springs, CA. Dr. Sazima has a deep interest but questionable performance skills in jazz; besides piano, his other interests include hiking, writing, cooking, kayaking, and meditation.
• Depression
• Mental Health
  Psychoeducational intervention for Latinx patients with depression - after recognizing the under-utilization of mental health services among the Spanish-speaking patient population, conducted a needs assessment and formed an intervention group educating patients and devising treatment plans.
• Psychiatry
  Dr. Mullins has extensive experience working with the indigent mentally ill population: she provided medication management services for geriatric clients at Community Solutions in South county for homebound clients and those in a residential facility (1994-1997); worked at Emergency Psychiatric Services at Valley Medical Center, the tertiary county hospital in Santa Clara County, (1994-2000); and provided inpatient psychiatric consultation-liaison services for San Jose Hospital from 2004 until its closure. She has helped to lead recent innovations in the residency Balint group, intern support group, and the Pain Management Service, a multidisciplinary treatment team for patients with chronic pain. In addition to her faculty role with the residency, she currently maintains a private practice in the South Bay where she provides psychotherapy and medication management for children and adults. Personal interests include spending time with her husband and two grown children, mindful meditation, knitting, running, swimming, biking, and hiking.
• Behavioral Health
  Dr. Stevens is a long-time faculty member and part of the behavioral health team. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice (1984) and American Board of Addiction Medicine (2015). He has added certification in the subspecialty of Headache Medicine (2012) by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has special expertise in addiction, headaches, mood disorders, and pain management. His hobbies include live theater, photography and digital manipulation, and building and repairing computers.
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care
  Dr. Yu is the Residency Program Director and a teaching faculty member of the Stanford Health Care - O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Yu is passionate about primary care education and enjoys her teaching responsibilities with medical students and family medicine residents. She is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has a special interest in women's health, including obstetrics, diabetes care, and quality improvement. She leads the QI curriculum and diabetes group visits in the Family Medicine Center and was one of the founding members of the OSLER program. Dr. Yu received Stanford University's Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award and the Department of Medicine's Division of Population Health & Primary Care Teaching Award in 2017. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Academy of Family Physicians and was honored as the CAFP Member of the Month in January 2019. Outside of the Bay Area, Dr. Yu also has ties with a local community clinic in Roatan, Honduras, Clinica Esperanza, where she long served as the medical volunteer coordinator. She considers it a privilege to be a part of her patients' lives and hopes to help both her patients and her trainees find a path to better health and happiness. To keep herself in great health, Dr. Yu enjoys playing the piano, photography, scuba diving, adventure travel (all the more adventurous with her three young children in tow!), and spending time with her family and friends.
• Endocrinology

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Hands-on scanning time. This includes direct instruction from a MSK ultrasound faculty expert every Thursday morning for the entire fellowship year. Furthermore, each fellow receives a Butterfly-iQ handheld ultrasound device to increase scanning time at home, on the sidelines, and in the training rooms.
• Radiology
• X-Rays

Surgeons

• Orthopedics
• Arthroscopy
  Dr. Blatz received his orthopedic training at Tulane University and his sports medicine training under Jack Hughston, M.D., a pioneer in Sports Medicine. Dr. Blatz is a member of the American and International Arthroscopy Societies as well as the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and is a former chairman of the Santa Clara County Medical Society Committee on Sports Medicine. He is the team physician for the U.S. Swim and Synchronized swim teams. Dr. Blatz enjoys skiing and soccer.
• Orthopedic Surgery
  Dr. Kahan completed her orthopedic surgery residency at Stanford University. She specializes in disorders of the knee, foot, and ankle, and is certified in the carticel cartilage transplant technique.
• Bunions
• Arthroscopy

Dermatologists

• Dermatology
  Recent elective choices included international work in Santa Clotilde, Peru, working with a local midwife/obstetrician group, dermatology in Hawaii, medical volunteer work in Vietnam, office-based procedures with our attendings, and Sports Medicine ultrasound in Colorado. In addition to the elective months, residents can choose a “selective” in the second year which allows for additional time rotating in subject matter that the resident chooses (such as Cardiology, Pediatrics, Dermatology etc). Finally, our faculty are involved in a wide variety of clinical activities such as teaching, volunteering in local free clinics, and staffing sports events and frequently invite residents to join them.

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
  To develop a strong sports medicine knowledge base and the ability to critically read and analyze the medical literature.
• Physical Therapy
  The fellows work also with a physical therapy sports medicine resident during lectures, journal clubs, and at San Jose State University. This collaboration gives a true multi-disciplinary approach to learning sports medicine.
• Back Pain
• Geriatrics

Podiatrists

• General Podiatry
  The primary outpatient teaching site for the residency program is the Indian Health Center's Family Medicine Center, located just across the street from O'Connor Hospital. The IHC Family Medicine Center is an FQHC that currently has 13 examination rooms and 1 procedure room. It also includes a laboratory and various clinic equipment, including a spirometer, video colposcope, dermatoscope, and ultrasound. We offer full-spectrum primary care at the FMC: acute and preventive pediatric and adult medical care, family planning, maternity care, mental health, dental health, nutritional services, procedures, podiatry services, and patient education.
• Achilles Tendonitis
  Dr. Cornelison received his undergraduate degree in Physiological Science from UCLA and completed his podiatric training at the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine. He is an advanced reconstructive foot surgery specialist who emphasizes preventive care for his Santa Clara County patients. The practice treats a wide range of foot conditions, including Achilles tendonitis, bunions, heel spurs, arch strains, and more. Dr. Cornelison can also create specialized injury treatment programs for athletes who need to recover quickly.
• Bunions Problems
• Heel Spurs
• Podiatric Surgery

Allergists

• Allergies