Dr. Rafael J. Sepulveda found his interest in health and wellness through coaching sports in Puerto Rico while pursuing a degree in General Biology.  He pursued his initial medical training in the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, which further emphasized the importance of a multicultural approach to medicine and interpersonal interactions with patients. After receiving his MD degree, He continued his medical training by pursuing a Fifth Pathway Internship Training from New York Medical College. With an understanding that medicine as the way to bring better quality of life to his patients, He pursued an Internal Medicine residency at Universidad Central Del Caribe- Internal Medicine Program he became interested in the effects of sleep in chronic illness and recovery from acute medical conditions. After completion of  residency training, Dr. Sepulveda was welcomed as part of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis Tennessee, which he completed in 2017. During this time, He was involved in busy hospitals such as Memphis VA Medical Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital as part of his training.  In August 2017,  Dr. Sepulveda relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and has been practicing his subspecialty for the last 4 years. He became interested in the effects of obesity in his patients and farther methods to manage and treat the disease of obesity. In 2020, He was board certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine to specifically treat patients affected with obesity. Besides his Obesity Medicine Board Certification, He is currently board certified in Internal Medicine and Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine Dr. Sepulveda continues to be eager to use his training and knowledge to improve the health of our community in Sonoma County while using concepts of internal medicine, obesity medicine and sleep to treat the disease of obesity. He is fluent in English and Spanish.