About Fion

Being born to two immigrant parents, and a two-month premature baby at that, Fion became resolute in pursuing a passion for empowering and uplifting the voices that have been silenced in healthcare spaces.

A powerhouse clinician - Bringing dynamism, innovation, presence and curiosity, Fion comes with over a decade of pediatric experience in combined clinical care and research arenas. Aside from providing direct clinical care to children and their families in the acute and primary care environments, she has been published in peer-reviewed journals, has guest lectured at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing at the pre-licensure RN and Master of Science levels, served as a preceptor and supervisor to nurse practitioner students and pediatric residents, respectively, and currently serves as a mentor in the UCSF School of Nursing Underserved Coalition for Bay Area Advanced Practice Training (UCBAAPT) Program.

Meeting gaps in youth focused care - In 2023, she introduced and developed the first clinical work flow for the management of HIV prevention in adolescent care for the Department of Community Health Programs for Youth (CHPY) within the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Seeing how little mental health support there was available for the youth she was caring for in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, Fion went on to complete a one-year child and adolescent primary care psychiatry fellowship through the University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine.

Broad clinical care scope - Her clinical work spans practice areas that include pediatric (newborn to young adulthood) primary and urgent care, gender affirming care, HIV prevention and treatment, child and adolescent psychiatry, and sexual and reproductive health.

Beyond medicine, Fion completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Moksha Yoga Amazónica in Moyobamba, Peru in Fall of 2024 and is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. Through this web space, she is developing her writing craft, exploring the joys and challenges of medicine as a practice, sharing the honest truth of what being a healthcare practitioner means for healing ourselves and others.

Training - She earned her RN and MSN as a nurse practitioner from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, and her BS in Human Development from the University of California, Davis (UCD). San Francisco is her home.

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In Fion's Words

I was given a Fischer Price doctor kit in toddlerhood, and I never looked back. I listened for the heartbeats of my Barney stuffy, the couch, the dining room table and my baby brother until the idea of taking care of children really solidified.

In childhood, I watched my mom's growing dissatisfaction of her body every time her eyes met her body in the mirror - peering at an almost 8 inch indenting vertical scar down the middle of her abdomen - a constant reminder of the traumatic birth experience of me, and the fuel to my fire.

"I cry cry cry because they took you away... they put you in a box and stuck needles in your back and no one told me why" she would say. A new immigrant to the U.S. at the time, with no English language skills, prenatal care, or health insurance, she was sidelined in her own care, and mine during that emergency cesarean delivery that landed me in the NICU for weeks, and my mom tirelessly worried and confused.

To this day, my preterm birth, and how she ended up with that scar is still a mystery. When I say pediatric medicine is my calling - that feeling resonates so deeply. My mom's reluctance to engage in healthcare systems is a story that is not unheard of. It is so many people's stories, and one that continues to draw me into spaces where I am afforded the opportunity to help youth and their families rewrite these narratives, and show them that medicine can be done differently.

By training, I am a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner in primary care, and over the last five years, I have developed a scope of practice that spans across inpatient and outpatient settings, from large academic institutions, to the public health sector. My greatest joys have come from exercising my creativity in medicine; working in partnership with children and families, creating healing spaces that allow for the discovery of their power and their voices, and promoting wellbeing in the ways that serve them best.

Over the course of my career, I have shared some of my own, and have been a part of so many stories; being present for the unraveling of truths, sitting with heartbreak, fear, anger, confusion, desperately trying to make meaning out of our precious time here on this planet. Stories matter. Theirs, yours, mine and ours. In all the spaces I have had the privilege of providing care in, there was always a part of me that felt unfulfilled and empty in the end. Healthcare is hard, but I know the potential it has to bring joy and meaning to the lives of so many - to the people providing it and receiving it.

I created this platform and space for folks with feelings; to explore and embrace humanness and healing in all its form in an infinitely busy world. I write to find meaning for myself, and hope that maybe you get something out of it too. Presently, I am exploring the depths of my capacity to heal others and myself, detached from an organization, a set schedule or duties outside of the ones I set forth myself. I hope to connect with you on this journey.