History
His first 16 years of practice were spent at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California. He came to San Luis Obispo in 2000. He has served as the Chief of Staff at Sierra Vista Hospital and as the President of the San Luis Obispo Medical Association.
Specialties
Dr. Rodgers is a native Californian, having grown up in Sacramento, Davis and Santa Barbara. He is Vietnam era veteran and served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman. His undergraduate education was accomplished at the University of California at San Diego (Revelle College). He attended Medical School at the University of California at Los Angeles. He did his Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. His sub-specialty training was at the University of California at San Diego. He spent a year studying mucosal immunology and has had long interest in immune diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He held appointments as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego and as President of the San Diego G.I. Society. His first 16 years of practice were spent at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California. He was the G.I. Fellowship Director and the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center while at Scripps. He came to San Luis Obispo in 2000. He has served as the Chief of Staff at Sierra Vista Hospital and as the President of the San Luis Obispo Medical Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterology Association, the American College of Physicians, and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He is also a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.