Meet Dr. Oropeza
- Board-Certified Family Physician
- HIV Specialist (AAHIVS)
- Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine
I believe healthcare works best when it is built on trust, curiosity, and enough time to actually know the person sitting in front of you.
I'm a family physician because I enjoy taking care of the whole person — and because I think that's essential in our increasingly fragmented healthcare system. I want to understand not only what's happening medically, but what matters to you, what else is happening in your life, and how all of those pieces fit together.
My clinical work includes comprehensive primary care, LGBTQ+ health, HIV prevention and treatment (including PrEP), sexual health, gender-affirming care, viral hepatitis care, and substance use treatment. I care for patients ages 12 and up and value the breadth of family medicine: caring for the whole person rather than dividing health into disconnected parts.
Training & Teaching
I earned my medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed my residency training in Family and Community Medicine at UC Davis. I am board certified in Family Medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine.
I later completed a Community HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts, training with Family Medicine mentors, and became credentialed by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV Specialist (AAHIVS).
Community Medicine was part of both my residency and fellowship — a name that has always reflected what family medicine means to me: caring for individual patients while understanding the families, systems, and communities that shape their health. Through Oropeza Health, I get to bring that community-centered approach into my daily practice here in Spokane.
I also serve as an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane, where I teach and mentor future physicians.
Beyond the Clinic
My spouse and I have two young kids, a dog, a cat, a benignly neglected garden, and a handful of houseplants that also thrive with benign neglect. Spending time with people I love, being involved in my community, and moving my body outside take up most of my time outside of medicine. I'm also part of Leadership Spokane this year, which has been a great opportunity to learn more about how our community works across industries.
I've been out since I was 15 and started a gay-straight alliance at my high school in the early 2000s. I've remained involved in queer communities through medical school, residency, and my years in practice. That experience is part of what I bring to my work — not as a substitute for anyone else's lived experience, but as part of why creating healthcare where people don't have to edit themselves matters so much to me.
I'm originally from the Philadelphia area and have lived in five states along the way: Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, Hawaii (briefly!), and Washington. Spokane is home.
