NVIH Medical Providers
Andrew Miller, M.D.
Andrew Miller, M.D., was raised in Chico, California, and attended the CSU Chico, where he graduated with honors in Instructional Technology and Computer Science in 1989. He worked as a computer consultant in Chicago and Seattle and director of a medical software company in San Francisco. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Diego, in 1999 and graduated from the University of California, Davis residency program in Redding in 2002. He is Board Certified in Family Practice and has been a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians since 2002.
Dr. Miller is presently a UC Davis volunteer faculty member and teaches family practice residents in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. He returned to Chico and joined Northern Valley Indian Health in 2002. Dr. Miller resides in Durham with his wife Mimi and his two children.
Julianna (Martinez) Reece, M.D.
Julianna (Martinez) Reece, M.D., is a Native American physician from Northeast Arizona. She was born and raised on the Navajo (Dine) Nation and attended Pomona College, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1991. Following four years in southern California she ventured back to Arizona to complete her Master’s Degree in Public Health (Community Health) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Reece then moved even closer to her home community to attend medical school, graduating with her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine in Albuquerque. She completed her residency training in Northern California where she attended the University of California, Davis, Family Practice Residency Program in Redding.
Dr. Reece is Board Certified in Family Practice, and she has been a physician with Northern Valley Indian Health since 2004. She has been an active member in the Association of American Indian Physicians since 2001. Dr. Reece resides in Chico with her husband John and their baby daughter.
Walid Faraj, D.O.
Walid Faraj, D.O., was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela and later raised in Southern California. He attended the University of California, San Diego, where he graduated with honors in Health Care & Social Issues and Animal Physiology in 1997. He received his Doctor of Osteopathy/Medicine degree from Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2001 and graduated from Southern California’s Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program in 2004. He is dual board certified with the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians and the American Board of Family Medicine. He was awarded the National Health Service Corps Scholarship to help medically underserved communities, and worked for three years in Corning, CA in a family practice clinic.
Dr. Faraj joined Northern Valley Indian Health full time in late 2007. He is multi-lingual and resides in Chico with his wife Nada.
Melissa Epidendio Sloan, FNP
Melissa Epidendio Sloan, FNP, was raised in San Rafael, California and attended California State University, Chico. She graduated from CSUC with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and subsequently worked at Chico Community Hospital for several years in a variety of settings including Intensive Care, Surgical Services and the Emergency Room. In 1990, Melissa received a Masters Degree in Nursing from California State University, Chico, and then continued to work locally at Enloe Medical Center in the Oncology Unit. She taught in the Nursing Department at California State University, Chico while she attended the Western University of Health Sciences, receiving her Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate in 1999.
Melissa is nationally certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in Family Practice, and she has worked in ambulatory and urgent care, pediatric practice and primary care since 2000, joining Northern Valley Indian Health in 2004. She resides in Chico with her husband Michael and their two sons.
