Spotlight: Dr. Amber Gilmore, Medical Director
Dr. Gilmore was born and raised with her family in North Carolina. She attended East Carolina University studying biology and Hispanic studies and graduated from the Brody School of Medicine. Dr. Gilmore completed her rural family medicine residency training in Hendersonville, NC. Passionate about maternity care, she received additional surgical training by completing an obstetrics fellowship in Spartanburg, SC.
A strong advocate for rural healthcare, Dr. Gilmore moved to Ukiah to build the new rural family medicine residency program. The mission was to train and retain new physicians to stay in Northern California, caring for the people in our rural communities. Dr. Gilmore worked at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley hospital caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and delivered many babies on labor & delivery.
Ultimately, Dr. Gilmore found her passion working with our tribal communities at CTHP and co-founded the New Beginnings Program for moms and babies. Dr. Gilmore is excited to join CTHP full-time as the new medical director. Dr. Gilmore provides care for the entire family including adults, pediatrics, and pregnancy care. She also does home visits and performs office procedures such as skin biopsies, birth control device insertion/removal, and colposcopy.
On the weekends, she enjoys spending time outdoors exploring northern California with her husband Chase and their 2 dogs, Aran and Red. Dr. Gilmore returns to North Carolina often to visit her friends and family, including her 99-year-old grandfather Ed who turns 100 in October!