East coast kid living in the west. Born and raised in northern New Jersey, lived and worked in PA (college), NYC (public health grad school and DJing), spent 5 years in and fell in love with Newark, New Jersey (medical school), lived in Los Angeles for a rad family medicine residency and fellowship, and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico (dream job and work).
Family medicine physician practicing full-spectrum and beautiful medicine. Doctor at Casa de Salud — an innovative fair-priced integrative (western, eastern, traditional medicine) clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and contract doc working a few shifts/month in the Emergency Room of an Indian Health Service hospital two hours west in rural New Mexico. Active member of local Community Coalition for Healthcare Access (CCHA) in New Mexico.
Co-founder of Cure This, a health/healthcare/healthjustice community blog, circa 2007. Precursor to CureThis was to the teeth, created in December 2002. Created Los Anjalis in 2005, in Los Angeles. Developed the Harbor-UCLA Family Medicine residents blog in 2005.
Founding board member and currently on the Board of Directors of the National Physicians Alliance (health before business, patients before profits, profession above privilege). Previously (2003-2004), Jack Rutledge Fellow for Universal Health Care and Eliminating Health Disparities, for the American Medical Student Association.
Human rights staff writer at LAist.
DJed monthly in NYC for several years as part of the Mutiny crew (electronic, world, drumnbass, jungle, grime, experimental music). Performed alongside co-resident DJs Zakhm, Navdeep, Rekha, Vivek, and an impessive roster of DJs, MCs and electronic musicians from around the world, including: Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Asian Dub Foundation, Karsh Kale, DJ Spooky, Fun^Da^Mental, Joi, Badmarsh and Shri, DK/Omzone, DJ Mukul, Midival Punditz, Choque Hosein (Black Star Liner), Badawi, Mutamassik, Singe and Verb, TC Izlam, Mike Ladd, Andy Smith (Portishead), UK Apache, Ming & FS, Swingsett, Doomer, Tigi, Cheb i Sabbah, Janaka, Maneesh the Twister, DJ Sharaab and others.
DJed sporadically in Los Angeles (Industry Cafe and Jazz, Gallery 528), and now making beats and DJing in New Mexico.
Passionate about health justice, politics, anti-racism, mediocre mexican food, the “built environment”, & music. Dreamer and schemer.
Contact: email. Also on facebook and twitter (@losanjalis).
