Medical Directors

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Dr. Mehta feels it is a privilege to work for John Muir Medical Group over the last 10 years.  He grew up in San Jose and attended Bellarmine Prep High School before moving on to UC Berkeley, where he majored in Molecular and Cell Biology and dabbled in journalism for the school’s newspaper.

Pursuing a career in medicine gave Dr. Mehta a wonderful opportunity to experience life outside of the Bay Area, as he went to medical school and public health school at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Mehta completed an internal medicine residency at USC in Los Angeles County and worked as a night doctor in Philadelphia. 

Finding a hospitalist job within John Muir Medical Group proved to be a perfect homecoming.  He finds it rewarding to work for an excellent health system and live in the same community served.  For the last 5 years, Dr. Mehta has had the honor of serving as a Executive Medical Director and enjoys working with a group of amazing hospitalist colleagues.

Dr. Beckley received her MD from Temple University and completed residency at University of California at Davis. She competed a Sports medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University/ Rothman Institute and a faculty development fellowship at UCSF whilst faculty at UC Davis. 

She joined John Muir Medical Group as primary care and has worked in urgent care for the past 8 years. She has been a site lead at WC urgent care for the past 5 years and Associate Medical Director for Urgent care for the past 1 year.

Interests outside of medicine include volunteering, music, traveling and family.

Preet Paul Bhambra MD, has been with John Muir Medical Group since 2015. He immigrated from India at a young age, and attended High School in the Bay Area.  After graduating, he attended University of California at Davis, earning a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and continued his education at Touro University Medical School in Vallejo, CA.  

Dr. Bhambra completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Southern California, where he continued on as a teaching attending for a year.

Currently, he enjoys teaching residents at the UCSF/Family Medicine Residency Program at John Muir Health.  As Medical Director for the John Muir Health Home Visit Program, Dr. Bhambra enjoys the challenge of optimizing a patients’ health and quality of life in all phases of their medical care.

In his free time, Dr. Bhambra likes cooking, working on cars, and spending time with colleagues and family.  He enjoys learning new skills, mentoring college students, and indulging in new technologies.

Anna Chang, MD joined John Muir Medical Group in 2005, splitting time between an endocrinology practice and diabetes research in Concord. She currently is the Medical Director of Endocrinology, as well as the Medical Director of John Muir Physician Network’s Clinical Research Center, where she is an investigator in clinical trials. Dr. Chang is also actively involved with the Evidence Based Practice committee, as well as a member of the Accountable Care Organization board. 

Dr. Chang grew up in Danville, California, and attended UC Berkeley before spending 10 years in San Diego at UCSD Medical Center for medical school, residency, chief residency, and her endocrinology fellowship.  She returned to settle down in the East Bay with her husband, who is also a physician, and her 2 daughters. In her spare time, Dr. Chang likes to travel.

Teginder (Jim) Dhanoa MD, joined John Muir Medical Group in 2016.  Dr. Dhanoa first joined JMMG as an Urgent Care physician in Brentwood.  He then went on to serve as Physician Site Lead, Associate Medical Director of Urgent Care, and now serves as Medical Director of Urgent Care Operation since March, 2021.  In addition to his role in Urgent Care, Dr. Dhanoa is a member of the Compensation Committee for John Muir Medical Group.

Dr. Dhanoa is an East Bay native and attended The University of California, Davis.  He served as Chief Resident at the Lutheran Medical Center Family Medicine residency program in Brooklyn, NY and then went on to complete a Sports Medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Dhanoa is a board certified Sports Medicine and Family Physician. 

In his free time, Dr. Dhanoa enjoys spending time with his two kids with whom he shares a passion for travel, hiking, and family time by the pool side.

Dr Stacy Ly has been a hospitalist with John Muir Medical Group since 2009. She joined the group after completing her Internal Medicine Residency at UC Davis.  She served as a hospitalist site lead from 2014-2017.  During this time, she also participated in the Collaborative Practice Committee at JMCC. Since implementation of Epic in 2014, she has played a key role in creating standardized note templates through the Epic Task Force, and a later invested time as a member of the Hospital Physician Advisory Group and Clinical Decision Support workgroup.  In 2016, she certified as an Epic Physician Builder, and became the Medical Director of Inpatient Informatics in 2017. Additionally, she splits her directorship role and also works for John Muir Health and actively participates in Physician IT, Clinical Steering Committee, and co-chairs the Order Set workgroup.

She is a native of Oakland, CA and is grateful to settle there with her husband and their two children. She is a running enthusiast and enjoys racing in half marathons in the Bay Area. Inevitably, she is also a fan of shopping at farmer's markets and eating at amazing local restaurants in support of her husband who is a chef and restaurateur.   

Neeta Milasincic MD, FACP, has been with John Muir Medical Group since 2017. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is currently the Medical Director of Inpatient Services at John Muir Health.  Dr. Milasincic is practiced Internist with more than 20 years of experience caring for patients as a Hospitalist and Ambulist.  

Dr. Milasincic holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and a Medical Degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.  She completed her residency at Christiana Care Health System in Newark Delaware where she was Chief Medical Resident in her fourth year and went on to act as the Department of Medicine, Consulting Internist and Resident Preceptor for many years.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Milasincic has been an invited lecturer covering topics including infertility, PCOS, endocrinology and nephrology.  Her professional affiliations include American College of Physicians (Fellow) and Society of General Internal Medicine.

Smrutirekha Misra MD graduated from MKCG Medical College, India and completed her Internal Medicine Residency from Hackensack University Medical Center, a UMDNJ Affiliate, NJ. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Having lived in 5 states, she calls the Bay Area home now. She was self-employed for 11 of the 20 years that she has served the Tri-Valley Area in the out-patient and in-patient settings. She is on staff at San Ramon Regional Medical Center and has served as Assistant Chief for the Internal Medicine Department. In 2014 her practice was acquired by JMH and she joined JMMG in partnership.

In her spare time she helps support families with special needs, creates culinary fusion style recipes, meditates, loves to read, garden, travel and spend time with friends and family. Her Zen spot is a warm beach!

Dr. Sarah Rahman has been with John Muir Health since 2003, practicing early on as a Hospitalist, eventually transitioning in 2006 to Ambulatory based practice with JMMG. She has been involved with Informatics since 2013 when JMH transitioned to EPIC. In addition to having Board Certification in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, she is an Epic Certified Trainer and an Epic Certified Physician Builder. She enjoys the cross collaboration and exploring new opportunities that evolving technology can bring to health care. She helped develop programs around Telehealth in 2020 and looks forward to expanding the role of Virtual Medicine at JMH.

Dr. Rahman is originally from New York. She graduated from Barnard College with a major in Biochemistry and attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College. She has remained in the Bay Area since completing residency at UCSF in Internal Medicine. She is currently excited to be pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons, travelling and scuba diving.

Dr. Michael Schierman has been working in the San Ramon/Danville area for over 25 years.  He and his wife, Suedale, moved to California in 1992 from Calgary, Alberta after completing his Family Medicine Residency at Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary.  Dr. Schierman attended the University of Calgary to complete both his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Medical degree, then completed an Internship year at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Dr. Schierman was initially recruited to practice Family Medicine by the San Ramon Medical Center in 1992.  He has served in several leadership roles with this institution including Vice Chief of Staff, Secretary Treasurer and Head of Family Medicine.  Early in his career, as a member of Hill Physicians, he participated in committee work.  As time passed, he became an exclusive member of the Muir Medical Group IPA and served on their Executive Committee as the Vice President and briefly as interim President.  Throughout his career with the IPA, he served on a number of IPA and John Muir Health Network committees and represented the IPA on the Network Board.

Dr. Schierman joined John Muir Medical Group in 2012 and is currently the Medical Director for Recruitment and serves on the Compensation committee.  Dr. Schierman is also in full-time Family Practice in Danville, CA working with Dr. Christine Chang and Dr. Priya Swamy.

Outside of medicine, he enjoys being a loving husband to Suedale, his wife of 32 years, and also being a great dad to kids, Matt, 20 and Michaela, 18.  Musically inclined, Dr. Schierman, plays guitar and enjoys helping Suedale with their church music program.  He enjoys getting together with friends, working out and travelling.  You may see Dr. Schierman in the Danville July 4^th parade as a "semi-professional" Elvis impersonator.