​​Preventive Medicine Residency Program

2023–2024 Residents

Karissa LeClair, MD

​Dr. Karissa LeClair is a first-year resident in the CDPH Preventive Medicine Residency Program. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at Boston College, followed by her medical degree at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. During medical school, she worked with research collaborators both domestically and internationally to investigate and publish on topics such as gender disparities in thyroid cancer epidemiology and diagnosis, as well as global disparities in pediatric hearing loss. On a local level, she worked with community partners to develop and implement a community-based preventive care program, utilizing emergency providers to make scheduled home visits for at-risk patients who have barriers to traditional healthcare access. She completed her internship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan (UM), where she also graduated from UM’s Health Equity and Quality Scholars program. During her first year, she is looking forward to completing her MPH at the University of California Berkeley and hopes to focus her work on addressing barriers to healthcare access in Hispanic/Latino populations—particularly, migrant farmworkers in California. [She will complete her practicum with the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency Department of Public Healt​h

Stipend and tuition supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Preventive Health & Health Services Block Grant.  

Priyanka Thatipamala, MD, MPH

Dr. Priyanka Thatipamala is a second-year resident in the CDPH Preventive Medicine Residency Program. She earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and Molecular & Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. After college, she worked at the Harvard Kennedy School, implementing and evaluating social impact bonds with the Government Performance Lab. She received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her internship in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Thatipamala is committed to advancing health equity in California. During her first year with CDPH she received her MPH degree from UC Berkeley. For her capstone project, she worked in partnership with the Sacramento-based non-profit, Public Health Advocates on reforming first response services in Vallejo, California as part of their First Response Transformation Campaign. During her second year, she will be continuing work with Public Health Advocates while completing her practicum training with the Marin Department of Health and Human Services.

Stipend and tuition supported by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Preventive Medicine Residencies grant that funds the Public Health Priorities Track and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Preventive Health & Health Services Block Grant.

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