Owner/Medical Director
Dr. Nerissa Prieto, M.D. is a board-certified anesthesiologist with specialty training in Intensive Care Medicine.
She completed medical school, surgical internship and anesthesiology residency at Rutgers (formerly Robert Wood Johnson Medical School). In 2007, she completed ICU fellowship at Stanford, where she was the 113th graduate of that program since its founding more than 50 years ago.
She also holds an M.S. degree from UCLA with emphasis in cellular physiology and neuroscience. Her B.A. in Psychobiology was earned at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, a top-ranked liberal arts college where she had the privilege of contributing to research projects in neuroscience, psychiatry, and the molecular biology of neurologic disease at MIT and Harvard.
She is a published author in anesthesia journals, and she conducted award-winning research as a fellow at Stanford. Her findings were presented at a national conference in 2007, and that publication continues to be referenced by other authors as seminal research in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal in the ICU. She has also authored a book chapter on the surgical management of skin and soft-tissue cancers.
Dr. Prieto has been a contributor to the health and well-being of the Chico community since 2007, when she chose to move here from the Bay Area rather than returning to her home on the East Coast. She has been an anesthesiologist attending to trauma, OB, and elective surgical patients, and continues to maintain privileges at multiple surgical centers in town. She has cared for thousands of Chicoans in their time of need. Her current clinical interests lie in regional pain management and ketamine infusion therapy.
Having been inspired by her experience at Stanford where certain alternative therapies were welcomed into the everyday care of critically ill patients, Dr. Prieto has spent years in search of something practical, concrete and effective to offer patients outside of the operating room and ICU environments to enhance the care provided to them by their medical doctors.
She has experienced first hand the benefits of IV micronutrient supplementation in her patients, and is excited to bring her decades of hospital experience to the community for general wellness, and as an adjunct to traditional treatments for chronic disease. By founding Privvy Modern Health and Privilege Medical, Inc., Dr. Prieto looks forward to helping people thrive, regardless of age or health status.
