Coastal Health Alliance Medical Providers

Primary Care Providers

• Anna O’Malley, MD Anna is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2005, and completed her residency training at the University of California-San Francisco in 2008. She was certified in Integrative Medicine in 2010 upon completion of the University of Arizona’s Program in Integrative Medicine. Anna is committed to ... Read more
• Gabriel Klapman, MD Gabriel Klapman completed his medical training at UCLA School of Medicine and the UCSF – Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program. He has also been trained in Feldenkrais-based healing work, and is a certified yoga instructor. He is board certified in Family Medicine. His passion for bridging worlds and building connection led him to a career ... Read more
• Steven Aussenberg, MD Steven Aussenberg attended medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton, PA, and completed residency at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. He is board certified in Family Medicine. Although he completed his medical training in Pennsylvania, he spent several formative years in Marin County after college. Afterwards, he completed a two-year ... Read more
• Carrie Chase, FNP I am a bilingual family nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of experience working in community health settings. I attended UCSF and received my Master of Science degree in nursing, family and women’s health.  I hold a post-master’s certificate in rural health care management. I began my affiliation with Coastal Health Alliance in 2001, and ... Read more
• Nubia Daguia, FNP I am a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner who has been working in the medical field for over 25 years. I am blessed with a profession that I love and enjoying doing. I attended California State University in Fresno where I received a Master’s degree in Science of Nursing and FNP. Originally from Brazil I ... Read more
• Diane Holzer, PA-C Specialty, Women’s health Diane has been with the Coastal Health Alliance since 1992 practicing family medicine.  Diane came to California to attend the Stanford Primary Care Associates Program, which specializes in training physician assistants and nurse practitioners to work in under-served areas doing primary care.  She is also a Licensed Midwife and before she came here ... Read more
• Diney Wrona, PA-C After receiving a BS in Health Education I served in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast-West Africa for 2 years. Realizing during that time that I would miss clinical care if only doing health education I completed the Primary Health Program at Stanford as a Physician Assistant. I did my internship at Pt. Reyes ... Read more
• Marie Schwindler, RN Read more
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Behavior Health Providers

• Elizabeth O’Brien, LCSW Elizabeth O’Brien is a board-certified Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. She received her clinical training and her Master’s in Social Work from the School of Social Work at San Francisco State University in 2005. Elizabeth joined CHA as an Integrated Behavioral Health Specialist in February, 2015. Elizabeth has an extensive ... Read more

Dental

• Daniel Ramirez, DDS Dental Director Dr. Daniel Ramirez was born and raised in sunny San Diego.  He obtained  Doctor of Dental Surgery from University of California, San Francisco. During his time at UCSF, he was recognized for his linguistic abilities, philanthropic achievements, and service to patients with mental/physical disabilities. Dr. Ramirez is currently the Dental Director at Coastal Health Alliance Mobile Dental Clinic.  His primary ... Read more
• Leslie McGarvey, DDS Dr. Leslie McGarvey loves to talk about oral health! She is focused on combining evidence-based dental decisions with compassion for each person. She believes every person in our community deserves access to high quality patient-centered health care. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and moved to California in 2014. Dr. ... Read more
• Connor Ware, DDS Dr. Connor Ware was born in Anderson SC and recently moved to California after living in Asheville NC for the past ten years. He graduated from Davidson College in 2001 with a degree in Religious Studies and from the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in 2008 with the degree of Doctor of ... Read more

Specialist

• Alexis Richardson L.Ac. Alexis joins Coastal Health Alliance as their first Licensed Acupuncturist. Since 2015, Alexis has been providing community acupuncture in Point Reyes Station at West Marin Acupuncture Collective, a non-profit organization she founded, with the mission of providing affordable acupuncture in West Marin. Her acupuncture experience includes working at: Scripps Memorial Hospital (Center for Executive Health), Rady’s ... Read more
• Richard M. Schiller, DPM Rich is a Podiatrist (Foot Specialist) as well as a Certified Classical Homeopath. He has worked at the Coastal Health Alliance (CHA) since 1993. He received his undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from Temple University in Philadelphia and his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine from The Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine also in Philadelphia. He completed a ... Read more
• Joe Blumenthal, MD FACC Coastal Health Alliance is pleased to announce the addition of Joe Blumenthal MD FACC, Cardiologist, to its staff of specialty health care providers. Medical Director Mike Witte —The addition of Dr. Blumenthal’s Cardiology skills enhances CHA’s speciality services in ways that are very important to expanding the scope of our local care and making it even more relevant to the ... Read more