Experts in Medication Assisted Treatment, Opioid Tapering and Therapy
Dr. Anusha Chandrakanthan is a Board Certified Addiction Medicine physician with over 5 years' of experience. She graduated from Stanford University’s Addiction Medicine fellowship in 2018. She has helped a variety of people with addiction. Including people with polysubstance abuse, complex co-morbities and homelessness. Before Stanford, Dr. Chandrakanthan worked at a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Central Valley where she developed a special interest in treating patients with chronic pain and substance use disorders. During her time there, she helped create safe prescribing guidelines through her work with the pain management committee. She is passionate about the integration of addiction medicine and primary care and improving access to substance use disorder treatment for patients.
Her patients describe Dr. Chandrakanthan as warm, compassionate and non judgemental. She takes her time to get to know her patients and helps them make safe choices. She sees patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearby counties like Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco and Contra Costa.
Dr. Julio Meza is an Addiction Medicine Fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Psychiatry in Primary Care Fellow at UC Irvine. Dr. Meza was born and raised in El Salvador. He graduated Cum Laude from Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador. After graduating from medical school, he was accepted into a surgical residency and completed an internship at the Hospital Militar Central in El Salvador. He left El Salvador to pursue his dream of becoming a U.S. licensed family physician.
While in Los Angeles, Dr. Meza worked as a medical assistant instructor and program director, training students to work in the areas of San Fernando, North Hollywood and Los Angeles. Dr. Meza enjoys working with patients from all backgrounds and provides non judgemental compassionate care.
Kathe Gibboney is a Family Nurse Practitioner. For many years she worked in primary care in Redwood City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She began treating more and more people with substance use disorder and/or psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety. Eventually, she joined a practice specializing in these areas.
Kathe works with people as they find their way to recovery, reminding them that it is possible to have a meaningful, joyful life without drugs and alcohol. She is sincere, understanding and cares for her patients very much.
Dr. Vikram Khanna is a Board Certified Family Doctor for 20 years. He graduated from UC Davis Medical School and did his Family Medicine Residency in Modesto, CA. Since then, he has been practicing in Modesto and nearby counties like Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Fresno. He has a long history of treating the complex and interwoven medical, psychiatric, and substance misuse challenges faced by the medically vulnerable and homeless. He also enjoys collaborating with both private and governmental agencies to help in any way possible to limit the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
He strongly believes that he has not seen an area within medicine as critically underserved by the medical establishment as stigma free and patient empowering substance misuse treatment. Not only do patients lose when they can't find genuinely caring and qualified doctors, but their whole family does as well! Lives are needlessly interrupted and tragedies have become much too common. Although Dr. Khanna stopped delivering babies years ago, prescribing suboxone / buprenorphine allows him to witness the rebirths of the hopes, spirits, talents, and wonderful dreams of my patients. In his own words, "This is by far the most rewarding work I have ever done; the feeling I am left with when I am supporting a patient's best efforts at abstinence is JOY."
Elisabeth (Lisa) Cederblom is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and was a National Health Service Corps Scholar. Lisa obtained her Master of Science in Nursing from the Yale University School of Nursing, her Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA School of Public Health, and her Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz. A strong advocate for progressive healthcare, Lisa has provided full-scope primary care within Los Angeles county’s federally qualified health centers, including medication-assisted treatment for substance abuse disorders. She loves partnering with her patients as they work together to achieve their health care goals and is excited to bring this approach to her work with Bicycle Health.
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Danielle Sinkford is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Danielle obtained her Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco and her Bachelor of Arts in International Development/Spanish from American University in Washington, D.C. She practices full scope primary care at federally qualified health centers in Los Angeles. Her clinic practice includes the treatment of opioid use disorder and provision of MAT. With Bicycle Health, she hopes to improve access to theses services and assist patients in achieving their health goals.
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Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Watson is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician and a current Addiction Medicine Fellow with the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine. Jon was born and raised in San Diego where he developed his life long loves of surfing and mountain biking. After graduating from UC Berkeley Jon worked as a case manager in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco where he developed his passion for caring for patients with addiction. This passion motivated him through Harvard Medical School and his residency at the Harbor-UCLA Department of Family Medicine. Jon believes in a collaborative, holistic, and non-judgmental approach to addiction and chronic pain as chronic diseases.
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LaTesha is a dual certified family and psychiatric nurse practitioner and was a National Health Service Corps Scholar. LaTesha is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice where she has focusing on a variety of themes in telemedicine. LaTesha earned her Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner at Samuel Merritt University and her post-Masters certificate at Regis College in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. LaTesha is fully bilingual in Spanish and has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Southern California.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, LaTesha loves working in the community setting and offering a unique perspective for her patients. She works hard to create a collaborative relationship with both the patient and the treatment team alongside the patient, in order to meet their medical, psychiatric and addiction goals. Most of her work has been in Federally Qualified Health centers and she looks forward to applying her energy and compassionate approach to the patients at Bicycle Health.
Dr. Kanwal Qidwai is a preventive medicine who along with the residency completed her Masters of Science in Clinical Research from the University of New Mexico. Her master's thesis was about increasing access to Buprenorphine for the New Mexico population by assessing the barriers faced by physicians in prescribing Buprenorphine.
She developed a strong passion for addiction medicine and decided to learn about more about substance use disorder treatment. She recently finished the addiction medicine fellowship from Kaiser Permanente in Northern California and gained immense experience while treating the patient in ED, inpatient, outpatient, and intensive care unit setting. She has also received training in pain management, and intensive inpatient and outpatient psychiatry.
Sarah Purdy is a proud physician assistant, mother and military spouse. Her approach to healthcare is multi dynamic with treating the whole person. I try to create a warm safe nonjudgmental environment for open communication for a wide variety of healthcare needs. I am capable to diagnosis, treat, prescribe medications and psychotherapy sessions for patient’s complex and complete needs quickly, compassionately and efficiently.
She has 10+ years' experience as physician assistant focusing the past 4 years specializing in psychiatry and mental health care. I treat a wide range of mental illness such as (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, bipolar and mood disorders, personality disorders, schizoaffective/schizophrenia etc.
We provide the most convenient and confidential high quality treatment for opioid dependence and opioid use disorder in California.
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