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Dr. Newswanger is a native Californian who was raised on the central California Coast. He attended the University of California at Davis where he graduated with honors. He received his medical degree form the University of California at Irvine in 1982. He completed a residency in Family Practice at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, then had a solo practice in Family Medicine for 5 years in Paradise, CA. He returned to the UC Davis Medical Center for a second residency in Anesthesiology then went to Massachusetts for a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. He came from there to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in 1994. He has a special interest in pediatric anesthesia.

During medical school Dr. Newswanger was the student representative to the California Medical Association committee on Preventative Medicine and Public Health. He worked at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta where he helped to curtail an epidemic of dysentery in day care centers in Florida and helped start an investigation of a new form of bacterial dysentery. He received his school's "Humanitarian Award". During his residencies he volunteered his time at a free clinic, and as team physician for a local high school. While in Family Practice he served Feather River Hospital on the infection control committee, and chaired the pediatric and perinatal committee. During his pediatric fellowship he was an officer of the Harvard University Medical School.

Dr. Newswanger is chief of the department of anesthesiology. He has served on the volunteer clinical faculty at Stanford University, and is a clinical affiliate preceptor at Samuel Merritt College. He is a member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, the Bay Area Pediatric Anesthesia Consortium, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Medical Association, and the Santa Clara County Medical Association.

Dr. Newswanger earned athletic letters in Track and Field in both high school and college. He is an Eagle Scout. During college he was a volunteer in the health assistance organization "Amigos de las Americas". He worked in rural villages in Nicaragua and Colombia giving immunizations and eventually becoming an assistant project director. Because of his work in Central and South America he speaks fluent Spanish.

Dr. Newswanger is married and has three children. He is a scout leader.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
Internship	UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Residency	UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Residency	UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Fellowship	Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Board certification	Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology

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