Dr. Abratowski grew up in the Detroit area and did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan in physics. He completed his Masters in Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University and worked in technology development at Intel in Silicon Valley and Oregon before starting medical school at Oregon Health & Sciences University in 1998.

He moved on to New York City for his residency in internal medicine at Mt. Sinai, and has been practicing hospital medicine at Mills-Peninsula since graduating in 2005.

Dr. Abratowski lives in San Francisco with his cat where he is a member of the San Francisco Film Society and the Museum of Modern Art. He enjoys traveling and is learning Spanish.

Dr. Aggarwal grew up in India and attended Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical School. She moved to the United States (Maine) in 1999 after getting married, and completed her Internship and residency at John H Jr. Stroger of Cook County Hospital. 

Dr. Aggarwal, along with her family, settled into the Bay Area in 2004. She initially worked at San Mateo Medical Center Long Term Care. Since 2006 she has been practicing as hospitalist at Mills Peninsula hospital. She became certified in Palliative Medicine and Hospice in 2012. 

Dr. Aggarwal’s goal is to practice humanistic, personal, evidence-based medicine and approach patient care with an open heart and mind.

In her free time Dr. Aggarwal enjoys traveling, cooking and spending time with family. 

Dr. Alexander is from Houston, Texas. She moved out of the big world of Texas after completing her undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Houston and then Medical school at Texas Tech University. She completed Internal Medicine training at Cleveland Clinic Foundation Main Campus, where she was enrolled in the Hospitalist Track Program with particular focus on various principles important in Inpatient Medicine like Quality Improvement, Patient Safety etc. 

She has also been influenced by various experiences like her childhood years in Kerala, India (known as God’s own country for its natural beauty and religious tolerance), managing her family business, travelling through Europe as well as Medical volunteering in rural Nigeria and India. 

She lives in San Mateo with her husband and enjoys travelling, hiking, learning new things and spending time with family and friends.

Dr. Bhalla grew up in New York, close to the ocean and Manhattan. She received a B.A. from New York University and completed Medical School at Howard University’s Medical College in Washington D.C. After working in Los Angeles at a free medical clinic for 2 years with VISTA Americorps, she completed a residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at UICMC in Chicago, IL. She loved the winters so much, she stayed on to complete a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine and an MPH.

Before joining PHA and moving to the bay area, she worked with the humanitarian medical NGO Doctors without Borders in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo (Brazzaville), Madagascar, and Jordan (Amman).

Dr. Bogale entered medical school right after finishing high school. He studied at Gondar College of Medical Sciences, Ethiopia and graduated with Honors. He won a fully paid scholarship to study Tropical Ophthalmology at University College London, England. After just taking a short certificate course in tropical ophthalmology, he moved to the USA and did his internship in internal medicine at Northshore University Hospital in New York, then transferred to UCSF Fresno to finish his residency training. Since finishing residency in 2004, he has been working as a nocturnist hospitalist at Mills-Peninsula Hospital.

Dr. Bogale is recently married and enjoys traveling, spending time with his big family and driving out of town on his days off.

Dr. Huang was raised in Burlingame, just one mile from Peninsula Hospital, where she has been privileged and proud to serve her home community since 2007. After graduating from Burlingame Intermediate School and Mills High School, she went to the Seven-Year Accelerated Medical Education Program at Union College and Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. She has been specializing in the care of hospitalized patients since 1999, after completing residency training in internal medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. She chose to work in the inpatient setting because she enjoys the technical aspects of medical care while also providing the support and communication that acutely ill patients and their families need. In her spare time, she enjoys taking math classes, learning about low-carbohydrate/Paleo diets, doing home improvement projects, and karaoke DJ-ing

Dr. Kasturia graduated in the top 8th percentile of her medical class and has extensive expertise in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She completed one year of internship in General Surgery at Cornell University before pursuing her true passion in Internal Medicine and completed her residency at Drexel University in Pennsylvania.  Dr. Kasturia is proficient in critical care management.  She has worked as a hospitalist at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco before joining Peninsula Hospitalist Associates where she now is an integral member of Mills Peninsula Medical Center providing care to her many patients. 

Outside of work, Dr. Kasturia enjoys spending time with her beautiful family of four and currently lives in Foster City.

Dr. Lee is a native San Franciscan. She completed her undergraduate degree at Amherst College, then spent 2 years as a clinical researcher and as an Americorps volunteer in community health. She went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and completed her internship and residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. She joined Peninsula Hospitalists Associates in 2013

Dr. Liao was born in Dallas, TX and is a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan. He grew up and went to school in Southern California attending UCLA Med School and graduating Class of 2001. He is relatively new to the Bay Area having just moved here in 2014. He enjoys golfing, skiing, tennis, working out at the gym and is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Dr. Erin Liu was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She completed her undergraduate work in economics at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California and also spent a semester abroad doing public health research in Geneva, Switzerland.  She attended medical school at the University of Hawaii and subsequently moved to the Bay Area in 2013 to complete her residency in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose.  During her free time, she volunteers as a primary care physician at Samaritan House Clinic in San Mateo. In addition, she enjoys hiking, reading, baking desserts, and traveling

Dr. Liu grew up in the bay area next door to Apple computers and Steve Jobs. He went to undergrad at UCSD before heading to the midwest for medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

After completing medical school, he served as a flight surgeon in the US Navy. When he wasn't seeing patients in clinic, he was performing homeland security patrols with the Coast Guard in the skies over Chicago.

Upon the completion of his time in the Navy, Richard then went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He then became the chief resident before coming to Peninsula Hospital in 2009 to practice hospital medicine.

Dr. Liu currently works full-time as a hospitalist and part time in Medical informatics where he works on improving the electronic health record system utilized by Sutter Health.

In his free time, he enjoys spending time exploring the city with his wife.

Dr. Patel grew up in Kenya and completed undergraduate and medical school at Cardiff University in the UK. She moved to the USA 11 years ago and did her internal medicine training at LAC + USC medical center in Los Angeles. She enjoys being a Hospitalist but when time permits she also keeps her outpatient skills up to date

She lives with her husband and precious dog and loves traveling. She is also interested in outdoor activities with her most recent achievement of climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.

Dr. Shah was born and raised in Chicago suburbs and went on to undergraduate studies at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and then pursued a Master in Public Health degree in public health at University of Illinois Chicago pursuing research assistantships in disability studies as well as clinical neuroscience research. After this, he worked in hospital administration as a clinical analyst and ultimately decided to study medicine which took him to Ross University where he did his basic sciences on the Dominica campus and then did clinical rotations in Chicago and New York City. He moved to Indianapolis for internal medicine training at St. Vincent Indianapolis. After residency, he decided to pursue a career as a hospitalist and worked at NorthShore University Health System before moving west to the Bay Area. He has been working with various hospitals in the greater bay area before joining the group at Peninsula Hospitalist Association.

In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Shah has an interest in informatics, quality of care and patient safety matters. He enjoys live music and spending time with his wife and daughter.

Dr. Vora grew up in India and completed her medical school from D Y Patil Medical college in Mumbai. She went on to work as a primary care physician for a year in a rural India. Following this, she completed residency in anesthesiology and Critical Care in Mumbai, India, graduating with Honors.

She moved to US (San Diego) in 2008, after getting married, and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine from Saint Francis hospital in Evanston, Illinois in 2013.

She moved to the bay area along with her husband in 2015 and has been working as hospitalist with PHA since. Prior to this, she was working as a hospitalist in San Diego.

In her spare time, she loves to travel, cook, swim and bike the beautiful trails in the bay area. 

Dr. Yee was born and raised in San Francisco. He completed his undergraduate work at UC Davis in biomedical engineering where he also spent time doing research in biomechanics and bioimaging. He attended medical school in Ohio at the University Of Toledo College Of Medicine. He was drawn back to the Bay Area after medical school and completed his residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. On his days off he enjoys spending time with his family and friends, discovering new eateries, playing basketball and rooting for the hometown Warriors.

Dr. Palmisano was born and raised in Oklahoma.  She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN for her undergraduate degree and medical degree.  She decided to stay at Vanderbilt Medical Center for her Internal Medicine residency training. She completed a year of hospitalist medicine in Nashville, TN before moving to the Bay Area in the summer of 2018 with her husband.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and her dog exploring all that the bay are has to offer.  She enjoys snow skiing, hiking, going to the beach, exploring new restaurants, baking cookies and watching football. 

Dr. Singson grew up in Delaware and attended medical school at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington DC. She completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of California Irvine where she was also Chief Resident. She briefly worked as a hospitalist in San Diego before settling down with her husband in the Bay Area.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and french bulldog.  She also enjoys running, hiking, going to new restaurants, and traveling.

Dr. Bodepudi grew up in the East Bay. She completed her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley and medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. She came sprinting back to warm weather and finished her residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. 

In her spare time, she enjoys landscape photography, hiking, dining, painting, game nights and traveling. 

Dr. Lori Bruland was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and later in her childhood moved to Redding, California. As an undergraduate, she attended UC Davis where she studied neurobiology (go Aggies!) and worked full time as an MCAT teacher and organic chemistry tutor. She then went on to Saint Louis University School of Medicine where she earned both her M.D. and M.B.A., and also served as her medical school class Co-President. Afterwards, she returned to Central California to complete her residency training at the UC Davis Mercy Merced Residency Program.

Dr. Bruland moved to the Bay Area shortly after completing residency. She enjoys nocturnist medicine given its many unique opportunities and challenges. She has worked with PHA since 2018.

Dr. Bruland currently lives in San Francisco and loves the city life (though traffic is not her favorite). In her free time, she enjoys hiking, cooking, traveling, Fantasy Football, and spending time with her nieces and nephews.