Meet Our Providers
Our primary care providers at Central Washington Family Medicine are here to make your visit the best it can be. We offer affordable health care for men, women, and children of all ages.
We Are Here to Help You
Our family practice takes care of every aspect of your family’s health from newborn through senior care. With deep roots within the community, we are committed to your health and well-being. Learn more about our primary care behavioral health providers below:
Caitlin Hill, MD
Program Director – Purple Team, Pink Team
I aspire to help empower each of my patients to take control of her/his health through actively partnering with them to make the best health care decisions for them and their family, and by becoming an active member in the Yakima community.
Ragina Lancaster, DO
Silver Team, Pink Team
I strongly believe in a patient-centered approach to care that recognizes that health is multi-faceted. My special medical interests include preventative care, nutrition, education, integrative use of point-of-care ultrasound, and geriatrics.
Maria Verduzco, MD
Family Medicine – Purple Team, Pink Team
My philosophy of care is bridging the gap between underserved monolingual Spanish patients and their providers to ultimately lead to healthier families. My special medical interests include women’s health and pediatrics.
Louise Achey, PharmD
Pharmacology – Purple Team
I want to work for CHCW because I love the philosophy of the clinic. I am excited to be part of a team, which is essential when working with patients. I want to help as many clients as I can, and to make sure that they each feel heard and understood.
Julie Aubrey, MA, LMHC
Behavioral Health Consultant – Silver Team
I want to work for CHCW because I love the philosophy of the clinic. I am excited to be part of a team, which is essential when working with patients. I want to help as many clients as I can, and to make sure that they each feel heard and understood.
NADIA AZHAR, DO
I hope to partner with each of my patients and empower them with education and guidance to achieve their personal healthcare goals. I enjoy having the privilege of caring for patients and their families as they enter various stages of life.
Eve Barker, MD
Family Medicine – Silver Team, Pink Team
My goal is to provide culturally informed, compassionate care using evidence based medicine. I recognize that many facets contribute to health and I strive to provide information and guidance to empower patients to make their own healthcare decisions.
David Bauman, PsyD
Behavioral Health Education Director – Blue Team
Health is not an absence of symptoms but an engagement in a meaningful, fulfilling life. I am drawn to primary care in order to meet people where they are, and provide behavioral health services to patients that would never seek care in a traditional setting.
Bridget Beachy, PsyD
Director of Behavioral Health – Purple Team
Coming from a Bio-Psycho-Social perspective (using the most up-to-date science), I help patients adopt new strategies to improve their overall health and live life in a meaningful way. I enjoy the fast-paced, team oriented atmosphere being in primary care, as well as the increased access for patients.
MAYRA CORREA BARADA, PSYD
Behavioral Health Fellow – Red Team
I love working in integrated care settings and I am looking forward to continue training in the Behavioral Health Care Model.
Elizabeth Boggio, MD
Family Medicine – Silver Team
I believe in a holistic approach to patient care, and to practice medicine that is patient centered. My goal is to build a relationship of trust with my patients by educating patients to make the best decisions for their care while respecting their autonomy.
Brenna Boyd, MS
Behavioral Health Intern – Red Team
Bio coming soon!
Allison Breda, DO
I aspire to always remember the patient as a whole – especially when it comes to human behavior, the importance of motivation and cooperation, and the interconnectedness of mental and physical health.
Sara Cate, MD, MPH
Family Medicine – Purple Team
I believe in patient centered, compassionate care based on best practices and grounded in sound science. I am passionate about providing care to those who because of economic or other barriers are less able to access medical care..
Casey Celerian, DO
Family Medicine – Purple Team
Each patient is a whole person made up everything from where they grew up to the daily activities they find most important. I believe that by partnering with my patients and forming strong relationships built on trust I can best understand what is unique to them.
Catherine Choi, DO
Family Medicine – Purple Team
I was drawn to medicine because of the ability to empower others. I hope every patient I encounter feels listened to and cared for. My special medical interests are in women’s health, diabetes education, and osteopathic manipulative medicine.
Jessica Coleman, MD, MS, MPH
I believe in listening to and engaging patients in their own care as well as their family. Improving families and communities will improve individuals! Physicians should also continue learning and broadening their skills to better assist their patients!
NICHOLAS COLIN, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
My goal as a physician is to improve the quality and delivery of care for at-risk/ vulnerable patient populations.
Sarah Cook, DO
Family Medicine – Red Team
I believe thoughtful, thorough healthcare is a commodity that should be attainable to everyone. I hope my patients will see me as a caring physician who hears their concerns and advocates for, and with, them.
Michael Copty, MD
I believe that understanding motivations of patients, allows physicians to individualize and tailor-make care, specific to each unique encounter. This in turn, leads to rapport building and mutual understanding.
Jake Covington, DO
Family Medicine – Purple Team
I believe in employing an integrated approach to patient care, incorporating the most up-to-date medical literature and best practices with preventative medicine and holistic osteopathic manipulative therapy.
Gray Dawson, MD
Associate Program Director – Family Medicine – Purple Team
Work as a team to make great things happen for the residency, this influential organization, and the patients we have the honor to care for.
Christina Eglin, MD
Family Medicine – Purple Team
I believe quality family medicine is rooted in understanding what makes a patient unique. With each patient I hope to help with health goal setting, provide evidence based medical knowledge and be a partner in their medical journey.
Jamie Emanuel, MD
After working and volunteering in various areas ranging from tutoring kids to being a clinical assistant in a medical center, I’ve learned that there is no “cookie cutter” approach to anything, especially when providing care.
Heather Harris, PsyD
Behavioral Health Consultant – Red Team
I am passionate about the role a Behavioral Health Consultant can play in the likes of patients, on the team, and in the larger community. CHCW provides compassionate and impactful care, while also continuing to pursue growth.
Sabina Hochroth, DO
Family Medicine – Purple Team
Bio coming soon!
Britton Holman, MA
Behavioral Health Intern – Blue Team
I have always wanted to work in a true integrated health system. CHCW does that, and much more, especially with the integration of the medical residency program and the psychology internship program.
Kari Hoover, PA-C
Physician Assistant – Blue Team
I aspire to continuously improve my knowledge and skills in order to provide the best possible quality of care to my patients.
Lawrence W. Hu, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
Patient care is more than just physicians providing necessary medical care for patients. As a healthcare provider, I constantly remind myself that it is my privilege and honor to get to know each one of my patients and their life stories.
Carrah James, PhD
Behavioral Health Consultant – Blue Team
I aspire to learn, to listen, to understand, to inspire and to be inspired, to be still and to make good trouble, to be bravely vulnerable, to confront and talk about and do hard things, to honor the people and places.
John Jamora, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
My goal as a physician is to empower my patients to take control of their health and partner with them to attain health goals. I will approach the physician/patient relationship with compassion and understanding and strive to cultivate long-term meaningful relationships.
DAN JENKINS, DO
Family Medicine – Blue Team
I believe every doctor-patient interaction is an opportunity to maximize wellbeing. Whether addressing chronic issues, new problems or taking preventative measures, improvement is always possible.
Portia Jones, MD, MPH
Family Medicine – Blue Team, Pink Team
I work towards a collaborative, patient-centered care model with my patients, involving the patient in decisions about their health and care. I enjoy taking care of all the members of the family and multiple generations of the same family.
John Jamora, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
My goal as a physician is to empower my patients to take control of their health and partner with them to attain health goals. I will approach the physician/patient relationship with compassion and understanding and strive to cultivate long-term meaningful relationships.
Sheila Kredit, MD
Family Medicine – Purple Team, Pink Team
I aspire to bring hope and trust to those around me, and End each day feeling that I did the best by my patients, colleagues, family, and self that I could. I aspire to improve breastfeeding support, the response to the changing environment, and medical education.
Melissa McCoy, MD
Family Medicine – Blue Team
To advance health equity by compassionately and competently caring for individuals, families, and communities as an expert generalist in full-spectrum family medicine.
Georgia Schafer Medina, MD
Family Medicine – Blue Team
My philosophy of care is to provide patients with holistic care to the best of my ability, so that they are empowered to live rich fulfilling lives. I believe that full spectrum primary care is the cornerstone for health.
Carlin Miller, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team, Pink Team
I believe that one of the most important factors in medicine is being willing to listen. Many times answers to my questions come automatically if I just sit and let my patients talk. Understanding what constitutes my patients lives, their values, and concerns allows me to customized their care in ways I can be confident will work for them.
Michael Murray, PsyD, LMFT
My philosophy of care is that the integration model just makes sense. Whole-person treatment is the only logical way to support a healthy life style. I enjoy the collaborative nature of the work and my coworkers are simply awesome.
Aaron Nott, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
The ability to deliver family medicine facilitates the ability to provide lifelong care, from birth to death. I value developing a friendship with my patients during visits to ultimately lend a hand in guiding my patients to the quality medical care they wish to receive.
Shanice Santa Olivo, MS
Behavioral Health Intern – Silver Team
I am excited to help with patient center care, promoting accessibility to care, and integrated health care!
RONALD SIMPSON, PSYD
Behavioral Health Fellow – Silver Team
Experience:
Neuropsych assessment, psychotherapy, behavioral Health Consultant at Community Health Center. Psychiatric nursing facility. University Medical.
Ruth Olmer, PsyD
Behavioral Health Consultant – Purple Team
I enjoy the fast pace and variety of the work in primary care. I have my regular clinic duties, which are varied in terms of presenting problem, population, individual, group, testing, etc. Then there are the extras that I can tailor to my interests, such as supervising interns, developing employee wellness events, etc.
Steven Olmer, PsyD
Behavioral Health Consultant – Red Team
I am drawn to primary care behavioral health because I enjoy the variety of experiences that primary care offers in a day and the ability to work with a team of different professionals to treat individuals in multiple aspects of their well-being.
Sarah Ortner, MA, LMFT, MHP
Behavioral Health Consultant – Silver Team
I believe that all people desire lives where they are connected to who and what is meaningful to them, and I believe all people bring strength and gifts to the work of creating healthier lives. I try to bring empathetic listening and honesty.
Chanel Ostrem, DO
My goal is to foster partnerships with my patients. I also believe in taking a holistic approach to healthcare. Integrating social, financial, psychological and lifestyle factors as part of viewing the whole person.
Josh Parmenter, DO
Family Medicine – Purple Team
The greatest reason I wanted to become a physician was, so I could care for people starting with before they were born until their golden years. Having a family of my own, I truly believe that wellness and health starts in those younger years and is carried through the generations.
Jai Patel, MD
Family Medicine – Red Team
I believe trust and understanding can be achieved when each patient feels as though their health needs have been viewed from a holistic lens that also takes into account their unique psychosocial needs.
Joel Pearson, MD, MPH
Family Medicine – Blue Team, Pink Team
I share CHCW’s mission of service and education. My special medical interests include full-scope family medicine including inpatient and obstetrics, public health, serving the underserved.
Stephen Pearson, MD
Pediatrics – Silver Team
As being part of the AAP I have been able to influence policy for the benefit of children. As part of PROS I have participated in studies where the results have ultimately changed policy and practice for the benefit of children.
Julia Robertson, MD
Family Medicine – Blue Team, Pink Team
I have served the Yakima community as a family physician for twenty-seven years. I aspire to continue to serve my patients and the people of Yakima and serve as an advocate and role model for young physicians.
Emily SHerfield, DO
Family Medicine – Blue Team
Bio coming soon!
Courtney Shockley, MD
I love to work with families as a whole, that means integrating behavioral health and social assistance with traditional medicine. I also love to teach! I aspire to improve the health and wellbeing of kids and teens and to empower them to pursue their dreams.
Josh Stanfield, DO
I believe that my role is a collaborative one. I am committed to working with my patients as a whole person, incorporating body, mind, and soul in achieving the type of health and life they desire. I enjoy working with people to live life on their terms.
Brooke Steadman, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team, Pink Team
I love that family medicine provides the ability to have continuity of care with patients. This continuity allows for relationships to be built and for a partnership to develop.
Bilal Tasneem, MD
Providing my patients with even a shimmer of hope that it’ll be okay! The more I learn in medicine means the more skills I have to help someone in their time of need, to give someone hope that they are not alone, that someone else cares.
Madison Verrall, APC
Advanced Practice Clinician – Silver Team
I aspire to learn something from every patient I see, and help individuals to understand and achieve their own goals in terms of health. I am so excited about working in a patient centered organization that helps patients to prioritize all aspects of health.
SHRESHTA WADHWA, DO
Family Medicine – Silver Team
My years of medical training, working as a teacher for special needs children and volunteering at a hospice center have guided my patient care philosophy. Every patient should be treated as if they are family or friend:
Jerry Wang, DO, MPHTM
I am committed to preventative health and building good rapport with patients and being their biggest proponent. I believe in having conversations with patients and listening to not just their words but their subliminal messages in order to work together to solve their health concerns.
Brent Wilkinson, DO
Family Medicine – Blue Team
I believe in the restorative power of genuine patient-provider relationships. By connecting with patients in order to better understand their mental and physical health, positive clinical outcomes become more accessible.
Ningyi Zheng, DO
In my mind, taking care of a patient involves getting to know someone deeper and building enough trust in order to start peeling back the ‘layers of the onion.’ In other words, I enjoy understanding where a patient is coming from.
Gillian Zuckerman, MD
Family Medicine – Red Team, Pink Team
I aspire to find, foster, and propagate the humanity of medicine. I am excited to be returning to an FQHC, where I can be of service to my new community. In particular, I am thrilled to become part of Connect Clinic.