A career advocate of lifelong wellness and life-affirming care, Dolores’ motivation to ease the anxiety and suffering of her patients has led her to develop an extensive and varied background in adult-gerontological acute care, vascular surgery, inpatient care and family healthcare.
Before completing the graduate program in Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and post-grad fellowship in outpatient vascular surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Dolores worked for eleven years as an acute care registered nurse—including providing medical care to the underserved in both Northern California and rural Nigeria and Gabon—and seven years as a perioperative nurse in vascular surgery. In addition to her medical training at UCSF, Dolores also holds a BS in Nursing from Samuel Merritt University and a BA in Psychology from the University of California Berkeley.
Dolores is the founder of Bella Primary Care and co-founder of the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco. She is also a life member of the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club in San Francisco. Throughout all of her endeavors, Dolores’ Catholic Faith has been central and has informed her decisions and powered her through.