Swati Rao MD

Swati Rao, MD completed her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus in Medical Anthropology at Stanford University. She attended medical school at UC San Diego and completed her residency in combined Family Medicine/Psychiatry at UC Davis. She currently works at UC Davis in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where she practices psychiatry and family medicine for underserved populations through Sacramento County. She and her wife (a family practitioner) helped start a free transgender hormone clinic through the Gender Health Center in 2012 and have worked to increase transgender cultural and medical competency among providers in the Northern California region. Her teaching duties at UC Davis Health include seminars on culture, medicine and psychiatry for residents and medical students, in which she focuses on issues of unconscious bias and structural health inequity