Brea Bondi-Boyd (2013-2014)
Brea hails from the Sacramento area. She pursued her medical studies at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba. Following graduation, she continued to serve as a mentor for medical students in Cuba, leading several workshops on women's health issues for medical students. As a family medicine resident, her interests led her to clinical work with indigenous Mapuche in Chile, Los Medicos Voladores in rural Mexico, and Partners in Health in Chiapas. Her global health fellowship year was spent working in Chiapas and attending on the medical/surgical service at Contra Costa. She continues to facilitate resident educational opportunities in Chiapas. Outside of medicine, she enjoys swimming, visual art, antiques and literature.
Matthew Fentress (2011-2013)
Dr. Fentress attended medical school at the University of California Davis, subsequently joining CCRMC for residency. As a resident, Dr. Fentress co-founded the global health track at CCRMC, which enabled him to participate in clinical rotations in Malawi, Tanzania, and Haiti. Upon graduation, he served as a global health fellow, working with the MGH/CCRMC partnership in South Sudan where he trained South Sudanese medical students and junior physicians in the Juba Teaching Hospital. During his second year of fellowship, he focused on ultrasound skill development and teaching, spending his time abroad volunteering in a hospital in northern India serving the Tibetan refugee community in exile. After fellowship, Dr. Fentress joined Medecins Sans Frontieres, serving in missions in Myanmar and South Sudan, and subsequently worked in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic with Last Mile Health, an affiliate of Partners in Health. Dr. Fentress is currently the medical director of a homeless clinic in downtown Oakland and continues to work in the emergency department at CCRMC.
Michele Montandon (2011-2013)
Dr. Montandon received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, with an area of concentration in global health. She completed residency training in family medicine at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center. During her training, she volunteered clinically and conducted HIV research in Kenya and Uganda. After residency, she worked with Doctors Without Borders in Lagos, Nigeria. Her international health interests include improvement of primary health care systems and medical education, particularly the training of highly skilled general practitioners and physician leaders for work in rural, physician-poor areas. Through this fellowship, she has worked on medical education programs in Juba, South Sudan and Sagam, Kenya.
Jeff Pierce (2012-2014)
A native of South Texas, Dr. Pierce completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas-Pan American and his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine. After completing his training at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency in 2007, he worked in Lesotho for a year as part of the Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric AIDS Corps. Since then, he has divided his time between working in Northern California and working as the director of education for World Altering Medicine, an NGO mainly focused on helping a community in central Malawi. In addition to his experience in southern Africa, Pierce has worked in Kenya, South Sudan, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peruand the Philippines. His medical interests include high-risk obstetrics, HIV and tropical medicine. He is dedicated to addressing health care needs in the developing world primarily through the teaching of medical practitioners.
Jason Reinking (2014-2015)
A graduate of Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program, Jay has spent 18 months in Malawi doing pediatric malnutrition research for the World Health Organization, as well clinical medicine with Partners in Health. Has also spent time in Sagam, Kenya (clinical medicine), Haiti (TB project), as well as a year in Egypt as a clinic volunteer before medical school. He is interested in comprehensive primary care and longitudinal institutional project presence at global health sites.
Kali Stanger (2012-2013)
Dr. Stanger graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco before joining CCRMC for residency. As a resident, Dr. Stanger's work abroad included relief work in post-earthquake Haiti, inpatient adult medicine for a district hospital in Malawi, and volunteer work in South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya that included teaching ultrasound. During her year as a global health fellow, she volunteered abroad in a hospital with the Tibetan refugee population in northwestern India. Her work as a resident and fellow focused upon developing the global health program curriculum at CCRMC. Subsequent to fellowship, Dr. Stanger brought her training in underserved medicine closer to home, where she now serves as medical director of La Clinica de la Raza, a safety-net FQHC in Vallejo, CA.