Following residency and fellowship, Dr Rodriguez spent several years working as a hospitalist — a physician who specializes in caring for patients admitted to the hospital. Alongside her clinical practice, Dr Rodriguez held faculty appointments at UPMC and as a Stanford-affiliated educator, teaching the next generation of physicians.Her hospitalist work spanned both inpatient oncologic care and general inpatient internal medicine, giving her deep experience managing serious and complex illness.

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Over time, a pattern became impossible to ignore: by the time most patients reached her in the hospital, their disease had already progressed to crisis. Heart attacks, strokes, diabetic complications — the very outcomes that intensive, personalized prevention could have avoided. That realization is what pulled her out of medical education and hospital-based medicine and into direct primary care, where she could focus on her passion of keeping patients well before they ever end up in a hospital bed.

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Outside the practice, she is a wife and mother of three young children. She spends her free time with her family, reading, cooking, and staying active herself — because she believes in practicing what she coaches her patients toward: a full, healthy life at every age.