Network Main Office
The UC Davis Network of Affiliated Family Medicine Residency programs is made up of nine diverse residency training programs. These programs are focused for anyone interested in the practice of Family Medicine in a rural, urban, underserved, suburban, academic teaching or military practice. Located in Northern California, these nine Network program sites span from the near San Francisco Bay area communities in the west, to the rural north valley/mountains near the Oregon border, to the metropolitan state capitol in the middle and the central San Joaquin valley agricultural communities to the south. Each program is within driving distance to San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean, Napa Valley wine country, the Sierra Nevada Mountains including Lake Tahoe.
The UC Davis School of Medicine with a long tradition of excellence in primary care, sponsors the Network and all of its nine programs.
Network activities include:
- Annual Education Conference open to all 200 plus residents in the Network.
- Advanced Life Support for Obstetrics (ALSO) training course offered to all Network residents.
- Annual medical student recruitment dinner for area medical students.
- National recruitment event at AAFP convention in Kansas City.
- Statewide recruitment event at CAFP POP Conference in California.
- Chief resident forum for educational and leadership growth opportunities.
- Monthly Program Director meetings to share residency training best practices.
If you have any questions, you may contact our Network Program Manager, Erin Thomas, at eeethomas@health.ucdavis.edu.
Meet the Director: Debbie Lupeika, MD, FAAFP
Debbie Lupeika is a Clinical Professor and the Associate Dean of Rural and Community-based Education at University of California Davis, School of Medicine. She is a board-certified family medicine physician, practicing at Rolling Hills Tribal clinic in Red Bluff, California and works with the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. She is a national consultant for Residency Program Solutions (RPS) for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Her advocacy roles include District 11 Vice Chair of the California Medical Association and Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA). She completed an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center in 2025 and is now board eligible. She is the former Program Director for Shasta Community Health Center Family Medicine Residency Program. She completed a Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship at UC Irvine in 2020 and a National Institute of Program Director Development (NIPDD) Fellowship in 2013. She completed Family Medicine Residency at Mercy Family Medicine Residency Program in Redding, California in 2001 and medical training at Chicago Medical School in 1998.
She lives in Redding with her husband, four cats and a dog. Whenever possible she likes to spend time with family, travel, practice yoga, rollerblade and play volleyball.
Meet the Program Manager: Erin Thomas
Erin brings nearly 20 years of commitment and dedication to California state service with an administrative background in human resources and trauma surgery. She now oversees the day-to-day functions of the UC Davis Family Medicine Residency Network.
Outside of work she enjoys nature walks, planning and traveling to new places and is a Community Volunteer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Greater Sacramento Chapter.