SALINAS — October 8, 2015 – Natividad Medical Center is happy to announce the hiring of five new faculty members to its highly respected Family Medicine Residency Program.

The five new doctors include two former U.S. Navy flight surgeons, a primary care physician with 14 years of experience, a native of Mexico with extensive medical research, volunteer and teaching experience and a family medicine physician originally from Peru who spent a year providing comprehensive medical care to 2,000 people in the rural areas of Amazonas in Peru.

“We are pleased and honored to have five physicians of this caliber and experience join us on the staff of the residency program here at Natividad,” said Program Director Steven Harrison. “The residency program continues to be a strong, integral part of our community and the presence these five excellent physicians just solidifies our dedication to outstanding patient care and broad-based family medicine education.”

The residency program was founded in 1975 in affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco, which continues to provide support for research and scholarly projects for the Residency Program. The program, officially called Natividad Family Medicine Residency Program, has graduated 229 residents to date.

The program, which currently has 29 residents, provides opportunities to train in a variety of inpatient and ambulatory settings, with most of the patients drawn from Monterey County’s Latino population.
The program’s strengths are in general inpatient care and maternal-child medicine, management of chronic disease and community medicine.  The residents maintain an outpatient practice in the Laurel family practice clinic, which is one of 7 Monterey County Community Clinics run by a community Board and managed by the Monterey County Public Health Department Outpatient Services Division.  The Laurel Family Practice Clinic which recently expanded from 14 exam rooms to 28 exam rooms provides the Family Medicine Residency with capacity to expand the amount of patients seen by residents and faculty from 14,000 per year up to 30,000 per year.  The Public Health Department has been instrumental in moving forward with Natividad Medical Center in advancing forward thinking outpatient care and moving towards the primary care medical home in this setting.  Furthermore, the previous Laurel Women’s Health Clinic is now merged with Family Medicine in the Laurel family practice clinic.

The five new family medicine faculty members are:

• Dr. Eric Parsons, who joins the program after serving 14 years as a primary care physician specializing in family medicine with obstetrics and procedures in Kent, Washington.
• Dr. Eloy Romero, who joins the staff after a three-year family medicine residency at Natividad.
• Dr. Victor Delgado, who served a one-year fellowship in family medicine-obstetrics at Natividad.  Dr. Delgado entered the Fellowship after a three-year family medicine residency at Natividad .
• Dr. Jessica Taylor Goldstein who specializes in family medicine and obstetrics joins the the faculty at Natividad Medical Center after a three-year stint as Assistant Director of the Waukesha Family Medicine Residency in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She was also Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Milwaukee.
• Dr. David J. Goldstein joins the faculty at Natividad Medical Center after a three-year stint as Assistant Director of the Waukesha Family Medicine Residency in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He was also Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Bios For New Faculty Members:

Eric Parsons, MD
Dr. Eric Parsons joins Natividad Medical Center after serving 14 years as a primary care physician specializing in family medicine with obstetrics and procedures at HealthPoint Kent, a community health center in Kent, Washington.

For seven years, he helped build and direct a community campus for osteopathic medical students interested in providing medical services to underserved communities.
Dr. Parsons received his bachelor’s degree and his M.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. After a year at UC San Diego for his internship, his residency was completed at Swedish Family Medicine in Seattle.

His career goals include giving back to the community through teaching, welcoming those who want to learn about medicine into the clinic and hospital setting, mentoring, and seeing patients no matter their ability to pay, their stage in life or their level of success or despair. 

Dr. Parsons’ interests include wellness, the physician-patient relationship, encouraging learners to stretch themselves and grow, and patient-centered care. When not at Natividad, you will most likely find him with his family at the beach or out on the golf course in Aptos.

Eloy Romero, MD
Dr. Eloy Romero joins the staff at Natividad Medical Center after a three-year internship and residency at the hospital.

Dr. Romero, who specializes in family medicine, received bachelor’s degrees in both molecular and cell biology and public health at the University of California Berkeley in 2006 before getting his M.D. from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in 2012.

Dr. Romero has had extensive medical research, volunteer and teaching experience prior to getting his M.D.

His research experience includes stints at the Mexican Institute of Public Health at Cuernavaca, Mexico and at UCSF’s Department of Radiation Oncology in San Francisco.

He also taught eighth-grade science to at-risk youth at the Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles and was a medical Spanish elective coordinator to help address the need for Spanish-speaking physicians at UCSF.

His medical volunteer activities include work as an assistant at the Hall of Health in Berkeley to motivate youths in underserved communities to make healthy life choices and as a medical care provider at Clinica Martin Baro in San Francisco, a free clinic providing medical care to uninsured day laborers.
He also received a UCSF scholarship for students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds and a Teach for America Amgen Fellowship stipend awarded to instructors who have demonstrated exceptional science teaching in underserved communities.

In addition to being fluent in English and Spanish, Dr. Romero is fluent in American Sign Language.

Victor Delgado, MD
Dr. Victor Delgado comes to the Natividad Medical Center faculty finishing both an obstetrical fellowship and a family medicine residency program at Natividad Medical Center.

Before coming to Natividad, Dr. Delgado also completed three years at University of California Los Angeles International Medical Graduate (IMG) Programs, including two intensive 24-week programs and a 12-week clinical observership. After the 12-week program, he volunteered his time to facilitate communication between Spanish-speaking patients and the medical team.

Dr. Delgado received his M.D. in 2006 from the University of San Martin de Porres School of Medicine in Lima, Peru. Shortly after he received his MD he spent a year providing comprehensive medical care to 2,000 people in the rural area of Amazonas in Peru.

In addition to being a member of the American Association of Family Physicians, he is also a member of the National Hispanic Medical Association.

In his leisure time, Dr. Delgado enjoys hiking, running and biking the trails in Big Sur, listening to salsa music, watching a good soccer game on TV and hanging out with the friends he’s made at Natividad.

Jessica Taylor Goldstein, MD
Dr. Jessica Goldstein, who specializes in family medicine and obstetrics, joined the Natividad Medical Center staff after three years as Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Like her husband, Dr. David J. Goldstein, she served in the U.S. Navy, and was honorably discharged in July 2009. During her time in the Navy she served as Naval Flight Surgeon at Camp Pendleton in California for two years and as Naval Flight Surgeon for two more in Milton, Florida.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of California Davis, Dr. Goldstein received her M.D. in 2001 from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
Shortly after graduating, she served an internship at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton and trained as a flight surgeon at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida.

She also served a three-year residency at Columbia St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a two-year fellowship at the University of New Mexico Maternal Child and Reproductive Health Fellowship in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In addition to her bachelor’s and doctorate degrees, she also received a Public Health Certificate from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Dr. Goldstein was honored in “Top Docs of Albuquerque for Family Practice” by Albuquerque Magazine in both 2011 and 2012. She has been awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Global War On Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals, Presidential and Naval Unit Citation for OIF, National Defense Medal, and ribbons for Fleet Marine Force, Sea Service Deployment. She was also deployed in 2003 for five months to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Her family medicine interests include maternal, child, reproductive and preventative healthcare, and teaching and working with the underserved.

In her leisure time she loves to run and has completed 11 marathons, including first place for military women ages 20-29 at the San Diego Marathon in 2002. She is also a proud mother of three daughters.

David J. Goldstein MD
Dr. David J. Goldstein joins the faculty at Natividad Medical Center after a three-year stint as Assistant Director of the Waukesha Family Medicine Residency in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He was also Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Dr. Goldstein, who served in the U.S. Navy for 10 years, received his bachelor’s degree in 1997 from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey and his M.D. in 2001 from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Shortly after graduating, he served a one-year internship at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.

During his service in the Navy, Dr. Goldstein served as General Medical Officer at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois; two years as Flight Surgeon at the U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing Eleven Detachment, Oak Harbor, Washington; and two years as Flight Surgeon at the U.S. Navy Training Air Wing Six in Pensacola, Florida.

After leaving the Navy in 2007, he served a three-year residency at the Columbia-St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency in Milwaukee. Just prior to his position at the Waukesha Family Medicine Residency, he served two years as Adult Hospitalist at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In addition to being assistant professor at Medical College of Wisconsin, he also was a Clinical Assistant Professor at Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and is on several boards and committees, including as chairman of the Procedure Competency Task Force of the Council of Academic Family Medicine.

During his time in the Navy he was awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

Background on Natividad Medical Center (NMC)
Owned and operated by Monterey County, NMC is a 172-bed, acute-care hospital providing health care services to county residents for more than 129 years.  Based in Salinas, California, NMC offers inpatient, outpatient, emergency, diagnostic and specialty medical care.  NMC provides more than 34,000 patient days of care each year and has more than 52,000 emergency department visits per year. NMC is a Level II Trauma Center providing the immediate availability of specialized personnel, equipment and services to treat the most severe and critical injuries. NMC’s Trauma Center is a vital community service locally that saves lives and eliminates the need to fly critically injured patients to a distant trauma center.  NMC is ranked No. 1 in newborn deliveries in Monterey County and is the only teaching hospital on the Central Coast through its affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). With a medical staff of more than 300 physicians, NMC’s mission is to continually monitor and improve the health of the people, including the vulnerable, in Monterey County through coordinated, affordable high-quality health care. For more information, please call 831-755-4111 or visit www.natividad.com.