Facility Santa Clara Medical Center Department of Nephrology (Adults) Address 710 Lawrence Expy Dept 460 4th Floor Santa Clara CA 95051 Map & Directions Telephone Appt/Advice: 408-851-4600 E-mail your doctor

My Office Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	8:30 am 5:00 pm		8:30 am 5:00 pm		8:30 am 5:00 pm
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Please Note: I work at KP Milpitas OB/GYN in the "Early Start" Program on Tuesdays from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. My phone number in Milpitas is 408-945-2098.

Women's Health Education

About Me

I was raised in Hawaii and California and graduated from University of California, Davis (76) with a BA degree in Sociology with an aspiration to be a Social Worker in a health care setting. In 1977, with all my worldly possessions packed into a small Datsun B210, my husband and I moved to Hyde Park (Chicago) Illinois to work and complete our graduate education in social work. While in Chicago I worked at Pritzker's Children's Psychiatric Hospital and Michael Reese Hospital. I completed my Masters degree in Social Work (MSW) from Loyola University of Chicago in 1981 and began my family that same year with the birth of my first child.

I returned to California in 1982 to be near family and began working at Kaiser Santa Clara in 1984. Over the last 20 years I have enjoyed working in a variety of medical units within Kaiser as a Clinical Social Worker in Home Health, Hospice, Nephrology (Peritoneal Dialysis) and as an Early Start Specialist in Women's Health.

Currently I work in 2 very different medical clinics. As an Early Start Specialist in the Women's Health Clinic in Milpitas, I love having the opportunity to help identify, educate, and strengthen our pregnant women's abilities to limit risks associated with alcohol, tobacco or other drug use while pregnant or breast feeding. As a Clinical Social Worker with Peritoneal Dialysis patients, I enjoy being part of a skilled team helping our patients identify and use the strengths and resources that each of them have in order to cope with the intense demands of dialysis and transplantation in their daily lives. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love, to have such an interesting and diverse patient population and to be working with such highly competent teams of professionals within Kaiser.

I am naturally drawn to the ocean for rest and relaxation in my nonworking hours. My husband and I have raised 2 sons, one who is a journalist and scuba diver; and one who is a college student and skier. Having given our boys "roots and wings", I can now enjoy the finer things in life like kayaking, walking on the beach or a good movie with my husband.

Undergraduate Education: University of California, Davis, BA, Sociology

Graduate Education: Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, Masters in Social Work (MSW)

Licensing Information: Specialties or Board Certifications: California LCSW-LCS 13320

Professional Affiliations: National Association of Social Workers Council of Nephrology Social Workers

Began Practice: 1983

Joined Kaiser: 1984

What it means to be licensed:

To become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), a person must graduate with their Master's Degree from an accredited university. He or she must take additional training in areas such as: alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency, human sexuality, partner abuse detection and intervention and child abuse.

After completing graduate school, a licensee must also complete 3000 - 3200 hours of supervised experience and pass written exams before becoming licensed. The licensee must take continuing education courses every two years.

Disclaimer
If you think you have a MEDICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY, CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY or go to the nearest hospital. DO NOT attempt to access emergency care through this web site. An emergency medical condition is a medical or psychiatric condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that you could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: serious jeopardy to your health, serious impairment to your bodily functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part. An emergency medical condition is also "active labor," which means a labor when there is inadequate time for safe transfer to a Plan hospital (or designated hospital) before delivery or if a transfer poses a threat to the health of the member or unborn child.

This site may contain links to other web sites outside of www.permanente.net. Kaiser Permanente has no control over the content or the availability of these sites, and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Web links are provided as an educational tool, and should not be relied upon for personal diagnosis or treatment. A link or reference to a web site should not be construed as an endorsement of the site or its contents. Any medical content that you feel may be important to your health should always be discussed with your Kaiser Permanente physician.