Mercy / Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
Family Practice Residency Program
Family Practice Residency Program
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Mercy / Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
Family Practice Residency Program |
CORE FACULTY
Amir Sweha, M.D. Vice President for Medical Affairs Methodist Hospital |
Dr. Sweha received his M.D.
degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, before completing
his family practice residency training at the University of
California Davis Medical Center program where he also served
as a chief resident. He then completed a faculty development
fellowship at UC Davis and UC San Francisco before joining the faculty
at UC Davis and becoming the Medical Director of the UCD Family
Practice Center. In 1996, he joined the Mercy Healthcare
system bringing academic expertise to the community based residency
program. His clinical interests include practice management, office surgical
procedures, and preventive medicine.
Dr. Sweha has been Program Director and Director of Medical
Education for Mercy Healthcare Sacramento since 1998.
He led the residency program through two
accreditation cycles with outstanding record. Dr. Sweha is an Associate Clinical Professor with the
Department of Family Practice at the University of Southern
California.
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Timothy R. Takagi, M.D. Associate Residency Director |
Dr. Takagi grew up in Long
Beach CA, and received his B.S. in Fisheries Biology from UC
Davis. He did research for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
taught P.E. at a small parochial elementary school, and worked
at a suicide prevention hotline, before deciding to enter the
medical field. He graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine
and went to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield to complete residency
training, serve as chief resident, and spend an extra year
teaching. He moved back north to Sacramento and practiced
emergency medicine in the Sierra foothills before taking
over a solo private practice in South Sacramento. Realizing that
teaching was still very important to him, Dr. Takagi joined the
Methodist Residency Program in 1996. If and when he finds free time
between work and family, Dr. Takagi enjoys photography, music,
cooking, and outdoor sports. His first addiction is still
volleyball, but his knees are starting to feel old.
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Candace Lawson, M.D. Medical Director, Mercy Family Health Center |
Dr. Lawson hails from Talladega,
Alabama, home of the Winston 500 and historic Talladega College.
She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of
California Berkeley with a major in Conservation and Resource
Studies. She then did a year and a half of epidemiological
research in San Francisco studying the AIDS epidemic. She did
her medical school training and residency at the University
of California, Davis and followed this with a one-year academic
medicine/adult medicine fellowship. She has worked in a variety
of settings including community clinics, academic centers and
corporate health care environments. Her professional interests include
women’s health, medical education, continuous quality improvement,
and general family practice. She enjoys playing piano, reading
and spending time with her family. Dr. Lawson is an Assistant Clinical
Professor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of
Southern California.
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 Ronald Chambers, M.D. Program Director |
Ron Chambers grew up in
Shasta Lake, a rural town in northern California with the lifelong
desire to become a third generation family physician. He attended UC
Santa Barbara for undergrad where he majored in Zoology, Exercise
Physiology and Nutrition. Prior to entering medical school he worked in
Washington D.C. at the Surgeon General’s Office on Healthy People 2010,
the UCSF Gladstone Institute on HIV research, lectured on anatomy and
kinesiology at UCSB and was active in coaching the Special Olympics, the
Big Brothers Program, Operation Smile and a variety of other
philanthropic activities. He attended medical school at George
Washington University in Washington D.C. where he continued to diversify
his medical training with alternative medicine techniques while
remaining focused on primary care. Residency training was done at
Methodist of Sacramento where he participated in CAFP, worked on a
medical trip to Africa, and volunteered at local free clinics. Dr.
Chambers was the first graduate of this program to join the faculty full
time and has completed the UCSF Faculty Development Fellowship. His
interests include humanitarianism in medicine, global health, sports
medicine, any outdoor activity, and most importantly his wife and son. |
 Vincent Lo, MD, FAAFP Faculty Physician |
When I graduated from my medical school at the |
 \Joe Le, MD Faculty Member |
A graduate of the Mercy Methodist FP Residency Program, Class of 2003. Dr. Le is one of the leading community preceptors for inpatient and outpatient medicine. His successful private clinic is a model for best practice. |
India C. Fleming, Ph.D. Faculty Member, Behavioral Medicine |
Dr. Fleming was born and raised in Berkeley, California. She earned her PhD in psychology from the University of Maryland then worked as a researcher studying chronic stress. She returned to school for clinical training at the California School of Professional Psychology pursuing a special interest in health psychology. She then did a clinical psychology fellowship and served as a volunteer clinical faculty in Family Practice at the UC Davis Medical Center and has worked in the Psychiatry Department at Kaiser. Clinically, she practices from a constructivist perspective using cognitive-behavioral, narrative and family systems approaches. Her teaching commitment is to help physicians develop the knowledge, perspective and skills to truly incorporate psychosocial components into a biopsychosocial practice. She juggles her dream job here with spending time with her husband and twin daughters. She enjoys reading, cooking and outdoor play including bike riding, hiking and kayaking.
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Richard D. DeFelice, M.D., M.P.H. Intensivist/Hospitalist |
Dr. DeFelice received his MD degree from Loyola Stritch
School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Internal
Medicine At the University of Arizona in 1979. He also completed
fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Disease. He is Board
Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious
Disease, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. DeFelice was voted as one of "Best Physicians" in Sacramento by the Sacramento Magazine. He oversees the Internal Medicine/ICU rotations at Methodist Hospital. |
 Dan Stewart, MD Chief, Department of Surgery |
Dr. Stewart is a graduate of Duke University and a Fellow of the American College of Surgery. He has been an active member of the Surgery Department at Methodist Hospital for twenty years with an active interest in general and vascular surgery. He has been the primary surgery preceptor since the inception of the residency program 10 years ago. Currently he is the Chief of surgery department. |
 Rahat Saied, MD Pediatrics Coordinator |
Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, Dr. Rahat Saied specializes in the care of infants, children, teenagers and young adults. Dr. Saied received his medical degree from Dow Medical College in Pakistan and completed his post-graduate training at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and the University Of California, Davis Medical Center. Dr. Saied established Elk Grove Pediatrics Inc, in 1983. In addition , since 1981, Dr. Saied has been affiliated with the University of California, Davis Medical Center Sacramento and currently holds the position of associate clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Saied also maintains staff privileges at Methodist, Mercy and Sutter Hospitals.
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Marcella M.Salas Clinic Manager Mercy Family Health Center |
Marcella has lived and worked in Northern California most of her life has been in healthcare for over 13 years. Managed and worked different specialty clinics such as family practice, pediatrics, ob/gyn, urology, occupational health medicine and pulmonary. In her downtime enjoys spending time with her two kids, works at a local winery in Lodi and involved in Muay Thai style kickboxing. |
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Sandee Foxx Residency Coordinator |
Sandee has lived in Northern California for most of her life. She was the Coordinator of the Family Practice Residency Program in Redding for eight years before moving to Sacramento in 1994, to help set up the program at Methodist. She likes music, movies, shopping for antiques, and plans to travel eventually. |
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RESIDENCY SUPPORT STAFF
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Cathlene Ernst
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Eileen Kuhn
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IN addition to the core faculty, the program
is also proud to have more then 110 part time faculty, paid and volunteer,
from all specialties and subspecialties directly participating in and highly
committed to medical education.
