PGY-3 Residents
Morgan S. Keefe, DO, MPH
Morgan Keefe was born and raised in San Diego, California. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and her Master of Public Health from the University of Southern California. Keefe commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy in 2015 and earned her medical degree from Midwestern University’s Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. During her two tours as a general medical officer in the Navy and while serving as public health emergency officer for the Marine Corps’ busiest air station in Yuma, Arizona, Keefe became interested in pursuing a career in preventive medicine and public health. Her areas of interest include population health, occupational medicine and informatics, and she hopes to stay and practice in San Diego after completing the program. In her spare time, Morgan enjoys spending time outdoors with her family, doing yoga and gardening.
Rebecca Lian, MD
Prior to her preventive medicine training, Lian completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of California San Diego Shiley Eye Center. Lian also helped design the Global Ophthalmology and Advanced Leadership Program, a joint preventive medicine and ophthalmology residency program of which she is the first resident. Lian attended UC Berkeley as a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar and received her undergraduate degree in public health. She went on to complete her medical education at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lian then moved to San Diego and completed her residency in ophthalmology and preventive medicine at UC San Diego. Lian’s clinical and research interests include lifestyle and obesity medicine and their overlap with common ophthalmic conditions such as diabetic retinopathy.
Jennifer Marquez, MD
Jennifer Marquez was born and raised in the greater Philadelphia area and attended DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, for her undergraduate studies. Marquez completed medical school at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in North Philadelphia, where she developed a passion for serving underserved and underprivileged communities. Following medical school, Marquez completed two years of general surgery residency with the U.S. Army in El Paso, Texas, before transitioning to serve as a general medical officer. Her dedication to public health and underserved populations led her to San Diego. Marquez is particularly passionate about lifestyle medicine and exploring the intersection between lifestyle interventions and care for underserved communities. Outside of work, she enjoys staying active, cooking and spending time with her wife and family.
PGY-2 Residents
Nikolay Ivanov, MD
Ivanov earned two bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and biological sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. He then earned a doctoral degree from Weill Cornell Medicine, where he also completed an master of science in clinical and translational investigation. Before medical school, he worked full time for three years in bioinformatics and genomics research at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Baltimore, Maryland. Ivanov is currently a cardiovascular epidemiology fellow. His research focuses on the prevention of peripheral vascular disease. In his spare time, he enjoys open-water swimming, snorkeling and learning to surf.
Bekah Leigh, MD
Bekah is a California native who earned her medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine and completed a preliminary year in internal medicine at Loma Linda University Health. Her career interests center on occupational medicine, with a focus on injury prevention, workplace health and the intersection of the environment and health. Outside of medicine, she enjoys weightlifting, scuba diving and exploring the outdoors with her dog.