Dr. Guez comes to VHP from the Medi-Cal managed care plan Central California Alliance for Health where she served as medical director. In this capacity, she provided clinical leadership for the utilization management, care management, quality improvement and pharmacy departments. Her work included the creation of programs to decrease 30-day inpatient readmissions, the development of efficiencies and transparencies in the provider quality review and credentialing processes, and the partnership of finance and utilization management for strategic and analytic insights. Dr. Guez’s experience includes work as Clinical Instructor of Medicine for Stanford University’s School of Medicine, Hospitalist at Stanford Health Care’s ValleyCare Medical Center, and Physician Advisor and Utilization Management Consultant for Natividad Medical Center, where she had previously served as Chief Hospitalist. Dr. Guez is board certified in internal medicine. She completed her residency training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, where her research included changing models of primary care to decrease unnecessary emergency department utilization. She was the first graduate of the University of Miami in Miami, Florida to complete her MD and MBA degrees concurrently. During her time at the University of Miami, she also co-created an educational pathway in ethics and medical humanities and she published several papers with a focus on health care policy and child health advocacy.
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