Catheryn K. Teav, DO

I value quality team-based care to provide excellent wrap-around services to patients and enjoy cultivating long-term relationships with patients and their families. I am the daughter of Cambodian refugees who settled in Stockton, California, following the Khmer Rouge. There, I was born and raised among a diverse set of peoples and cultures, while also reaping the agricultural benefits of living in the Central Valley. I studied cultural anthropology at UC Santa Cruz (Go Slugs!). During my pre-medical studies, I volunteered at Silver Avenue Family Health Center, a FQHC in San Francisco. What began as a volunteer health coach experience blossomed into leading quality improvement at the clinic and city level and training health coaches for several years. This is when I knew medicine, specifically family medicine, was “it” for me as it allowed me to bridge these deep passions of mine – cultivating meaningful and trusted relationships over time and bringing about systematic changes to improve patient outcomes. Before medical school, I worked with organizations across California that were dedicated to dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline, advocating for improved environmental health in redlined communities, and organizing services to help those systems-impacted and/or formerly incarcerated.