Medical Director
Noemi "Mimi" Doohan, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: mimi@sbcfit.org
Noemi "Mimi" Doohan MD PhD is a board certified family physician. She attended Stanford University School of Medicine and received her family medicine training at the Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center in Martinez California. The "Martinez" program is renowned for training doctors in the practice of full spectrum family medicine: from cradle to grave, and from out-patient clinics into the hospital. Dr. Doohan continues to practice family medicine in this holistic way, caring for her patients throughout their lifecycle and at all stages of wellness. Such a medical practice has a strong emphasis on preventive medicine and on supporting health for the entire family unit. Dr. Doohan is delighted to serve as Medical Director of CFIT, where the health and wellness of our elders is given highest priority, where preventive medicine and community health is emphasized, and where evidenced based medicine guides the way towards successful aging.
Dr. Doohan practices family medicine in her private concierge practice in Santa Barbara, as a hospitalist for the Santa Paula Hospital in the Ventura County Medical Center, and in the Immediate Care Clinics at the Eisenhower Medical Center in the Coachella Valley of California. Dr. Doohan has medical staff privileges in the hospitals in all three communities where she practices: Santa Barbara, Santa Paula and Rancho Mirage. Her patients include people from all walks of life, from newborns to the elderly, and from the very well to those at the end-of-life. She serves as the vice-chair for the family medicine department at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and on the executive committee of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) Working Party on Women and Family Medicine.
Dr. Doohan is the founder and Medical Director of Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine, a nonprofit committed to providing free, volunteer care to the most vulnerable people of Santa Barbara, including the homeless and victims of disaster. Through this humanitarian work, Dr. Doohan introduced the practice of street medicine to Santa Barbara, bringing free primary medical care to people in great need via volunteer mobile medical teams.
Dr. Doohan received her PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Louise Clarke at UCSB. For her dissertation she did seminal work in the field of epigenetics, which has now become a cutting edge field of molecular biology.
Dr. Doohan lives in Goleta, California with her husband Dr. Jim Doohan and their two teenage children, Matthew and Isabella.