Lynette Cederquist, M.D.

Dr. Lynette Cederquist attended college at Oral Roberts University, and medical school at Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she graduated with honors in 1986. She then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the UCSD affiliate program in Fresno, California, in 1989. She then stayed on as a junior attending for a year, then as the Director of the Resident's Clinics for two years.

Dr. Cederquist then moved to San Diego in 1992 to work at Escondido Community Clinic for a year. She was then offered a position at UCSD, where she began working in 1994. She continues to work at UCSD as a Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, mostly seeing patients in her primary care practice. She also supervises and teaches medical students and residents.

During the past three years, Dr. Cederquist has focused her interest on the practice of palliative medicine, working with many cancer patients. She worked as a Scholar in Residence for a year at San Diego Hospice, and became certified in palliative medicine in November, 2004. She currently devotes a portion of her time attending on an inpatient palliative medicine consult service at Scripps Mercy Hospital, as well as continuing her clinical work and teaching at UCSD. She is working with UCSD's Pain and Palliative medicine to develop an active palliative medicine service and teaching at UCSD. Additionally, she is Co-Chair of UCSD's Ethics Committee, and serves as one of the ethics consultants.

Dr. Cederquist is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and certified in Palliative Medicine.

Memberships

American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, American College of Physicians

Personal Information

Place of Birth: La Paz, Bolivia.
Married since 1994, with two children.
Her husband Gary, is in charge of teaching the children how to work the computer, and do home improvements, while Dr. Cederquist is in charge of doing crafts, and taking them shopping.