Katia Cnop, DO

Katia Cnop, DO (she/her) is the Associate Medical Director for USC Street Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, before moving to rural Guatemala where she worked for Wuqu’Kawoq Maya Health Alliance, to deliver high quality health care to indigenous Maya communities in their preferred (Mayan) language. She attended medical school in the borderland region of New Mexico at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed her residency training in Family Medicine and her fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. She serves on a national task force to improve health equity in opioid use disorder treatment for the Academic Society of Addiction Medicine, and teaches an addiction medicine course at the Keck School of Medicine. She is continuously inspired by marginalized and underserved populations, and spends most of her clinical time on the streets of Los Angeles, providing wrap-around primary care and addiction medicine services to her patients in their encampments.

• Resistant dermatomyositis in a rural indigenous Maya woman. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Feb 21; 12(2).. View in PubMed
• Accompanying indigenous Maya patients with complex medical needs: A patient navigation system in rural Guatemala. Healthc (Amst). 2018 Jun; 6(2):144-149.. View in PubMed
• Use of propranolol in a remote region of rural Guatemala to treat a large facial infantile haemangioma. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 May 16; 2017.. View in PubMed
• Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation. Improving Infant and Young Child Nutrition in a Highly Stunted Rural Community: A Practical Study from Guatemala. 2017.

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