Trisha Schimek, MD pursued a career in medicine to care for underserved populations and address health equity and thus was naturally drawn to a career in Family Medicine and Global Health. She is a former alumni of the first HEAL class and spent her fellowship working on Navajo Nation in Shiprock and with Companeros en Salud in Mexico.  After the fellowship she decided to focus on “glocal” work as an attending physician in the Contra Costa County health care system in Martinez, CA.  She does direct patient care and also teaches in the Family Medicine Residency program in hopes to teach and prepare more family physicians on how to provide quality care to a diverse patient population. She was born and raised in Minnesota and holds onto the Midwest values of caring for her neighbors. Her educational path has allowed her to live in a variety of places, starting in New Orleans to complete her bachelors and Masters in Public Health in Tropical Medicine at Tulane, next to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and finally to University of Wisconsin, Madison, to complete her Family Medicine Residency.  Her interests outside of medicine include spending time with her husband and daughter, salsa dancing, searching food blogs for fun recipes, and anything that will take her outdoors: hiking, biking, camping, running.