Jeannine Rodems, MD FAAFP

Dr. Jeannine Rodems is a board-certified family medicine physician with more than 25 years of experience at Santa Cruz Direct Primary Care. She earned her undergraduate degree at UC Santa Cruz before completing medical school and her family medicine residency at UCLA.

Rodems has stayed deeply involved in Santa Cruz's medical community, serving as past president of the Santa Cruz County Medical Society and of the local CAFP chapter, along with a stint on the California Academy of Family Physicians' board of directors. She believes family medicine should center on the whole patient, weighing their family, environment, and community alongside evidence-based care, and she works to help patients navigate a healthcare system that can feel overwhelming.

She is married with one daughter, and spends her free time gardening, going to the theater, and walking her dog, Shadow.