Our Team

Dr. Quillen was born and grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1986 with a B.A. in Chemistry and History. He started graduate school at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1996 and left in 1998 to start medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine. In the summer of 1990, Dr. Quillen married Amy Bailey, and because she was starting law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Quillen transferred and finished his 3^rd and 4^th year of medical school at UNC. In 1995 he completed his Family Medicine residency program at Duke University and in 1996 he complete Duke’s Faculty Development Fellowship.

Dr. Quillen’s first faculty position started in the summer of 1996 as an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, as a core family medicine residency faculty member. In October of 1998, Dr. Quillen joined the University of Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Family Medicine as a core family medicine residency faculty member. He was promoted to associate professor in 2006. Over the 21 years at the University of Florida, Dr. Quillen participated in a variety of different opportunities that included serving on the COM admissions committee for 6+ years, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for 2+ years, multiple hospital committees, Treasurer, vice-president and president of the COM faculty Council, chair of the University Faculty Senate and member of the University of Florida Board of Trustees. In 2019, Dr. Quillen joined the University of Central Florida faculty as associate professor and family medicine residency director for the UCF/HCA North Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Quillen was promoted to professor in December of 2023.

Dr. Tara Farah is from Las Vegas and attended med school at the Medical University of Lublin and residency at the Altru Family Medicine Residency Program in North Dakota. Medicine is her lifelong passion, and she is most excited about providing the same awe-awakening experiences that she felt in training for the residents, combining the art of healing and the science of medicine.

Dr. Rebecca Ivancie is from Massachusetts and attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, residency at Children's Hospital Oakland, and fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital. Her teaching experience includes acting as the community site lead for pediatric medical education for medical students and pediatric hospital medicine fellows from both Darthmouth and Stanford School of Medicine, as well as an instructor of the national APEX program, a teach-the-teacher faculty development course.  She is most excited about developing a robust and fun inpatient pediatric rotation for the residency program.

Dr. Meghan Marmor grew up in Arizona. She attended med school at the University of Arizona, internal medicine residency at Brown University in Rhode Island, and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Stanford. Her past teaching and admin leadership experience includes the Tri-Valley ICU elective director, director of quality improvement for the Stanford Chest Clinic, and teaching medical students, residents and fellows pulmonary medicine both in clinic and in the hospital. She is most excited to see our new family medicine residents rotating with us in our ICU!

Dr. Parker is from Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended medical school at Emory University and residency at University of California, San Francisco. Her administrative and leadership roles include: Site Lead, Medical Director, Pediatrics for Stanford Medical Partners and Board Member for University Medical Partners. She is most excited about being able to provide a front line, community based pediatric experience for the residency program.

Dr. Lijia Xie is from Beijing, China and grew up in the San Francisco Tenderloin. She attended medical school at the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program and Internal Medicine residency at Stanford University. She has been a hospitalist since 2018. She previously served as a core faculty member and Associate Program Director at the Highland Hospital Internal Medicine residency program. She is thrilled for the first residents to start at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley to learn from the amazing patients and families in the Tri-Valley!