Andrea Franchett, MD & Michael Zimmerman, MD
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Andrea Franchett, M.D.
Dr. Andrea Franchett has been in private practice in the East Bay since 2004. In October of 2009, she and Dr. Michael Zimmerman opened Temescal Creek Medicine, a small private practice on a quiet residential street in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland. Drs. Franchett and Zimmerman designed their practice from the ground up based on their collective experience and interest in providing highly personalized, thoughtful medical care in a comfortable, unrushed environment.
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Dr. Franchett strives to understand her patients’ health issues in the larger context of their lives so that she can develop the best possible plan to help each individual thrive. Within the broad field of Family Medicine, she is especially interested in women’s health, mental health issues and end of life care. She enjoys helping patients make positive changes in order to live healthier, happier lives.　
Dr. Franchett was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her B.A. in History and Sociology from Columbia University in New York City. She did her pre-med studies at Mills College and attended the University of California San Diego for medical school. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the UCSF-Sutter Santa Rosa program. She is board certified in Family Medicine.
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When not practicing medicine Dr. Franchett enjoys practicing yoga, knitting, traveling and spending time with friends and family. She is married and has three children.
Providers and Care Coordinators
Michael A. Zimmerman, M.D.
Michael Zimmerman is a family physician who refuses to perpetuate a healthcare system that undermines the hard work of good people. He serves as expert faculty and consultant for the California Academy of Family Physicians and the California Medical Association Foundation chronic care and quality improvement collaborative. He is an alumnus of the UCSF/California Health Care Foundation Health Care Leadership Program and speaks nationally on performance improvement and practice redesign in the small office setting. Dr. Zimmerman is the former Chief Medical Officer at Affinity Medical Group, a Northern California IPA that includes over 600 physicians and cares for nearly 30,000 patients. In his position, Dr. Zimmerman is involved in defining, articulating and leading the quality care imperative for medical group leadership and for community physicians. Dr. Zimmerman was born and raised in the Bay Area and completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he was part of the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Initiative funded Primary Care Track. He completed training at Ventura County Medical Center Family Practice Residency. He is board certified in Family Medicine. He lives in Oakland with his wife, two children. Beyond medicine he enjoys cycling, baseball and traveling with his family.
Lauren Pallis, MD
Lauren Pallis joined Temescal Creek in 2023 after working as a hospitalist and then as a primary care physician. Through her prior professional experiences in various healthcare systems, Lauren learned that she wanted a smaller and more personalized setting to practice medicine, in order to be able to provide thoughtful and thorough care. After meeting Drs. Franchett and Zimmerman and learning about the ethos of their practice, she made the easy decision to join Temescal Creek Medicine.
Lauren Pallis was born and raised in the Bay Area. She attended the University of California, Berkeley for college and left the Bay Area to attend medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. She returned home to complete her family medicine residency at Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency. After residency, she spent a year in Seattle, WA at Swedish First Hill completing a fellowship in hospital medicine.
As a provider, Lauren aims to meet people where they are and help them set realistic and achievable health care goals. She believes that one’s physical health is strongly tied to their mental and emotional health, and strives to understand all three aspects of patients’ lives when developing a treatment plan. Within family medicine, Lauren is particularly interested in women’s health, mental health, exercise and nutrition, as well as managing chronic conditions.
Outside of medicine, Lauren enjoys cooking, being in nature, seeing live music, and spending time with friends and family.
Shannon McLelland
Care Coordinator
Shannon was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She moved to the Bay Area for college where she received a bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked in the medical field for over a decade. The majority of time has been spent in medical offices helping with everything from referrals to medical records. She also spent some time at Affinity Medical Group working on clinical quality with Dr. Zimmerman. In her free time Shannon enjoys crafts, video games and spending time with her husband and daughter.
Kellan Hickman
Care Coordinator
The excitement of city life drew Kellan from Humboldt County to the Bay Area for college. She attended the University of San Francisco and majored in Spanish. Her love of travel took her to Sevilla, Spain for a year abroad. She continued her studies at San Francisco State University earning a Masters degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in Gerontology. Her previous work includes activities coordinator for older adults and case manager in low-income supportive family housing. Kellan enjoys cooking, running, and spending time with her husband and two children.
Marguerite Buttrick
Care Coordinator
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