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Meet our Faculty
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Marc Tunzi, MD
Program Director |
Dr. Tunzi grew up in the small town of Spreckels, about 5 miles
from Salinas. After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1980
and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine in
1984, he completed a Family Medicine Residency at the UCSF-Fresno
program in 1987. Together with his family physician wife, Dr.
Danielle Acton, Dr. Tunzi spent two years at the Indian Health
Service Hospital in Crow Agency, Montana and four years at a
community/migrant health center practice in Twin Falls, Idaho,
before returning to Salinas to join the faculty at NMC in 1993. He
was our Program Director from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Tunzi’s special
medical interests are medical ethics and behavioral issues, though
he really sees himself as a true family physician generalist more
than anything else. Dr. Tunzi's family includes two
daughters and one son. He tries to amuse himself,
the residents, and the rest of the staff by speaking in various
accents or by whistling his way around the hospital.
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Dr. Harrison joined our faculty in 1991, and transitioned from part-time community faculty to full-time residency staff in 2008. He attended Undergraduate School at UC San Diego and went to Medical School at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He did his Residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. From there he started a private practice in King City (Southern Monterey County), where he did the full range of family practice included obstetrics and nursing home care for many years. His community involvement has included membership on the Boards of the Monterey County Medical Society and the Central Coast Alliance for Health. He has served as Chief of Staff at Mee Memorial Hospital in King City and has been the Medical Director at Eden Valley Care Center since 1995. He loves to teach and has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to share with our residents. Outside of Natividad he enjoys skiing, fishing and other activities with his family and does significant volunteer work in the local community.
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Steven Harrison, MD
Assistant Director of Operations
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Kathryn "Indy" Rios, MD
Assistant Director for Education |
Dr Rios attended medical school at the
University of Illinois in Peoria before she found herself at Natividad
for her residency. Before deciding on medicine as a career, she
tested her resilience as a junior high school math and science teacher.
She has a strong interest in evidence based medicine, and coordinates
our education program, as well as hospital CME. She enjoys reading,
especially science fiction, gardening, “extremely amateur” home
improvement projects, playing basketball and Frisbee with her 2 teenage
sons, and taking road trips with her family. |
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Dr. Gray attended the University of Osteopathic Medicine and
Health Sciences in Des Moines, IA. He completed his Family
Medicine
residency training at Womack Army Medical Center in Fort Bragg,
NC. After completing his military commitment he was in private practice
and later served as a residency faculty member in Colorado. Prior
to joining the Natividad faculty, Dr. Gray was the Predoctoral Director
in the Dept. of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. Dr. Gray has been on the faculty since 2001, and was our program director from 2005-2009. He enjoys
the breadth of Family Medicine as practiced at Natividad. Outside
of medicine he enjoys spending time with his family and sailing
in nearby Monterey Bay.
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Gary R. Gray, DO
NMC Medical Director |
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Valerie Bengal, MD
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Dr. Bengal is a Northern California native and
graduate of UC Berkeley. After Northwestern University School of
Medicine and a Family Medicine internship at Illinois Masonic Medical
Center in Chicago, she fulfilled her National Health Service Corps
scholarship obligation at Soledad Medical Group here in Monterey County.
She completed the Family Medicine residency at Natividad and has worked
at a number of community nonprofit and public sector clinics in the
Monterey Bay area, as well as private practice. Her special interests
are international health, including “liberation medicine” and
environmental health.
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Dr. Rebecca Rosen, a Philadelphia
native, received her bachelor’s degree in French Literature from
Swarthmore College and her medical degree from Temple University School
of Medicine. She is pleased to be back at Natividad Medical Center,
where she completed her family medicine residency training in 2000.
After graduation, she completed a Maternity and Child Healthcare
Fellowship at the University of Southern California Family Medicine
Residency Program at California Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles.
After fellowship, she stayed on as an attending physician and later as
director of the maternity fellowship. Wanting more patient contact, she
later worked as a full time staff physician at South Central Family
Health Center, a non-profit federally funded health center in South
Central Los Angeles. Dr. Rosen’s professional interests include working
with the underserved, women's and children’s health, obstetrics, and
colposcopy and LEEP. Dr. Rosen enjoys swimming, travel,
conversational French, music, and spending time with her husband and
toddler son.
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Rebecca Rosen, MD
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