Maya Antony, MD, MPH, FACP

Dr. Maya Antony is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She has been a core faculty member of the Internal Medicine Residency program at Cottage hospital since 2010 and is the Co-Associate Medical Director of Ambulatory Care Education.

She was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California Irvine, for 10 years before joining the Santa Barbara Public Health Department as the Director of the Internal Medicine Resident Clinic. She is also the Chief Physician at of the Santa Barbara Health Care Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center which is the site for the Internal Medicine Resident Continuity Clinic.

She works diligently to provide an excellent ambulatory medicine experience for residents at the Santa Barbara Health Care Center. Having lived and worked in India and Africa where she witnessed firsthand the socio-economic barriers to health, she understands the daily struggles faced by many to achieve health and wellbeing.

Dr. Antony loves her work with the underserved community of Santa Barbara County. Whereas many primary care physicians struggle with burnout, Dr. Antony finds great professional and personal joy in caring for those who arguably have the greatest needs in health care. One of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of her work at the Health Care Center is identifying social determinants of health and finding ways to tackle these barriers head-on.

Dr. Antony is very passionate about teaching and mentoring residents to become leaders in primary care delivery and finds her role as a core teaching faculty incredibly fulfilling.