Second Year Residents
Oscar Castrejon, M.D.
Dr. Castrejon was born in California but has been living in Las Cruces for more than 25 years. He did his undergraduate degree at NMSU and went to medical school in Juarez, Mexico at UACJ. He wants to be a Family Medicine doctor to serve the community of Las Cruces.
Doris Chavez, M.D.
Dr. Chavez was born in Lima, Peru and grew up there too. She went to medical school in Federico Villarreal University in Peru where she received her medical degree. After three years of practicing medicine in Peru she decided to come to the U.S. to complete a Family Medicine Residency.
She is married and loves traveling, dancing and going to the beach. She hopes to go back to Peru and visit all the beautiful places that she could not visit before, like the jungle.
Reetika Grewal, M.D.
Reetika was born in India where she also grew up. After finishing medical school in India she moved to the United States and worked with several doctors in many different specialties. It was then that she decided to be a primary care doctor. She loves music, movies, shopping, traveling and decorating her home. She hopes to join piano and dancing classes someday soon.
Khatibi, Bita M.D.
Dr. Khatibi grew up in Southern California and did her undergraduate at UCLA. She then went to the American University of the Caribbean for medical school, which enabled her to live on the beautiful island of St. Maarten as well as travel internationally. She is excited to pursue a residency in Family Medicine so that she can work in all corners of the world on all types of people. Her hobbies included white water rafting, scuba diving, traveling and classical movies.
Jose Perez-Ledezma, M.D.
Dr. Jose Perez-Ledesma (Pancho) was born in Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico. He moved to Cd. Juarez at the age of 8 and has lived in the “borderland” ever since. Dr. Perez decided to enter medical school following his father’s example and studied medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez. He was introduced to the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program when his brother, Claudio Perez-Ledesma, was accepted to the program. Due to the characteristics of the program; a community based environment, with surrounding rural communities, diverse patients, and a close proximity to the “borderland” he applied to and joined the program in 2008. He is married with a 1 year old son “panchito” (named after him). Dr Perez is nearly always smiling and is very outgoing. He currently lives in rural Anthony, New Mexico, and is looking forward to serve rural communities like Anthony or Chaparral, New Mexico after completion of the residency.
Chandran Vedamanikam, M.D.
Dr. Vedamanikam graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland in 2004. He studied general ultrasonography at the University of New Mexico in 1989, then specialized and worked in the vascular field for almost 20 years. With his extensive experience in information technology, networking, and medical image management, he plans to take the best of medicine to all of rural NM using “telemedicine”.