Katia Cnop, DO

Katia Cnop, DO is the Associate Medical Director for USC Street Medicine as well as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine. She received her undergraduate degrees in Biology and in Psychology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Cnop lived in rural Guatemala while working as the Complex Care Coordinator for Maya Health Alliance, a primary care organization that provides high quality health care to indigenous Maya communities in their preferred (Mayan) language. She herself is fluent in Spanish. She returned to the United States to attend medical school at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, located in borderland region of New Mexico. She completed her residency in Family Medicine and then her fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. She is inspired by marginalized and underserved populations and it is this which has brought her back to California to serve the unsheltered homeless communities of Los Angeles.

• 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. . View in PubMed

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