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 earned her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz before moving to rural Guatemala to work for Wuqu’Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, helping to deliver high-quality healthcare to Indigenous Maya communities in their preferred (Mayan) languages. Dr.Cnop attended medical school at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in the U.S-Mexico border region and completed both her Family Medicine residency and Addiction Medicine fellowship at Ventura County Medical Center. She serves on a national task force with the American Society of Addiction Medicine focused on advancing health equity in opioid use disorder treatment and teaches addiction medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Her clinical work focuses on delivering wraparound primary care and addiction medicine services to unsheltered communities through street medicine across Los Angeles. Guided by the resilience of marginalized and underserved populations, she is committed to advancing compassionate, low-barrier care for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness

• 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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