Chasity Jennings-Nuñez, MD, FACOG
Dr. Jennings-Nuñez MD, FACOG is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Los Angeles County, California and a Site Director for OB Hospitalist Group, Inc., overseeing the obstetrical hospitalist program at Adventist Health - Glendale since February 2020. For the 20 years prior to accepting that position, she was a partner with the White Memorial Gyn/Ob Medical Group, full-time faculty member with the Adventist Health-White Memorial Ob/Gyn Residency Program and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology with Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
Dr. Jennings-Nuñez earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Biology from Tulane University in 1991, graduating Cum Laude, and went on to a earn a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1995. In 1999, she completed her residency in the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Adventist Health-White Memorial and was invited to join the faculty and primary women’s health medical group. During her tenure at White Memorial, she was responsible for the direct supervision and teaching of 16 Ob/Gyn residents as well as rotating Family Medicine residents. She received the CREOG National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education. Dr. Jennings-Nuñez also maintained a busy clinical practice serving an under-resourced, mostly LatinX community in East Los Angeles. She has been an active member of the American College of Ob/Gyn (ACOG) since 1991 and has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Ob/Gyn (ABOG) since 2002. Cultivating leadership is very important to Dr. Jennings-Nuñez and she completed a Professional Leadership fellowship in 2016 through LA Care and the ACOG Robert C. Cefalo Leadership Institute in March 2022. She is the Vice-Chair of District IX, Section 5 of ACOG, representing Los Angeles area Obstetricians and Gynecologists and was a delegate at the 2020 ACOG Congressional Leadership Conference, lobbying for important protections for women’s health.
Outside of her medical career she is very active in her local community. She served on the Board of Directors for the San Gabriel Educational Foundation (SEF) for 3 years and then was elected President of SEF for 3 additional years. Under her leadership, programs such as San Gabriel’s First Annual Youth Fitness Expo and after school programs in coding, cooking and nutrition and Future Doctors of America were instituted. She contributes regular articles to a local newspaper, Colorado Boulevard.net and participates in local city government as the Chair of San Gabriel’s first commission on equity, the Human Equity, Access and Relations Commission.
Following her 25th medical school reunion, Dr. Jennings-Nuñez worked with other alumni to establish the HMS ’95 Anti-Racism Taskforce and is the chair of this group. They have collaborated with the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) at Harvard Medical School to offer mentorship opportunities to underrepresented in medicine (URiM) students, financial support of ORMA and outreach to fellow alumni to continue the conversation about bias and equity in medicine. Dr. Jennings-Nuñez identifies as she/her, African- American and was raised in Houston, Texas. She has 2 children, Cecilia who graduated from Harvard College in 2020 and Christopher, a sophomore at Arizona State University.