Dr. Tunzi grew up in the small town of Spreckels, about five miles from Salinas. After graduating from Santa Clara University and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, he completed residency at the UCSF-Fresno program. Together with his family physician wife, Dr. Tunzi spent two years at the Indian Health Service Hospital in Crow Agency, Montana, and four years at a community/migrant health center practice in Twin Falls, Idaho, before returning to Salinas to join the faculty at Natividad, where he was Program Director from 2000-2005 and 2007-2011. Dr. Tunzi’s special medical interests are medical ethics and behavioral health.