RECIPE4HEALTH
Our Staff
Steven Chen, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Steven Chen is Chief Medical Officer of Alameda County Recipe4Health, an award winning “food as medicine” model that intentionally brings together health care, food systems, and agriculture to improve food/nutrition insecurity, chronic conditions, and health/racial equity. While leading the scale and spread of Recipe4Health (R4H), Dr. Chen and his team successfully implemented one of California’s first Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition services as a covered Medi-Cal (Medicaid) service in California.
His experiences as a son of immigrants and a 2nd generation Taiwanese American have informed his commitments to better serve vulnerable populations. He developed integrative medicine services to offer acupuncture and osteopathic manipulative medicine services in Federally Qualified Health Centers. As a former Medical Director at Alameda Health System trained in LEAN process improvement, he led the design of a state-of-the-art clinic replete with a teaching kitchen, group rooms to support group medical visits, and pod based care teams.
Dr. Chen serves on the Board of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US), is active on California’s Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition Steering Committee, has helped craft two bills for the California legislature, and has given testimony to the U.S. Congressional House Rules Committee Roundtable on Food as Medicine.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Chen is a board-certified family medicine physician who completed his residency training at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital. He completed additional fellowship training at the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, leadership training through the California Health Care Foundation’s Leadership Program, acupuncture training through the UCLA-HMI Physicians’ Medical Acupuncture program, and advanced training in osteopathic manipulative medicine.
Anna Clayton, Health Care Program Manager
Anna Clayton, MPH serves as the Health Care Program Manager for Recipe4Health Alameda County. She has over 10 years of experience working in healthcare and public health and is committed to improving health and racial equity.
Prior to joining Alameda County, Anna coordinated Health Programs in San Francisco County and the California Department of Public Health. Her areas of focus have included nutrition, oral health, maternal, child and adolescent health, infectious disease and immunization. She has experience with community assessment, Trauma Informed Systems (TIS), Quality Improvement (QI)/LEAN principles, data analysis and public health program planning and evaluation. Anna also has trained in organic agriculture and ecological horticulture and has a passion for gardening and nutrition and its intersections with health and well-being.
Anna received her BA in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz and a Master’s in Public Health, Community Health Education from San Francisco State University.
Corey Brown, Financial Services Specialist
Corey is the Financial Services Specialist for Recipe4Health and as such, prepares our annual MOE budget, tracks our grant funds, assembles contracts, and navigates the County systems to get our work completed. Corey also provides behind-the-scenes support for the staff and lends his detail-oriented organization and design skills to the team. Corey received his B.A. from the University of Florida in 2010 and relocated to the Bay Area shortly thereafter. His previous experience includes roles in CBOs serving homeless, underserved, and/or LGBTQ+ youth in the Bay Area. When not working, Corey can often be found reading a fantasy novel, tending to one of his many houseplants, or working on an art project.
Eric Sovish, R4H CalAIM Coordinator
Eric Recipe4Health Alameda County. Eric has over 18 years of experience in healthcare, primarily in project management and operations.
Prior to joining Alameda County, Eric served in several administrative roles at Kaiser Permanente including project management and consulting on clinical, compliance and labor related projects. For 8 years he was instrumental in the operational management of Kaiser Permanente’s online health coaching offering.
Eric received his B.A from UC Berkeley, MBA from the University of San Francisco, and MPA from Columbia University.