Dr. Tequa Salehi-rad, D.O. earned an Honors Bachelor of Science in Microbiology (with an emphasis on Immunology) and a Minor in Chemistry from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in 2001. She then completed her medical school training at Western University of the Pacific in Pomona, California earning her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005. Next, she completed her 4 year combined MD/DO residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Christiana Care in Delaware. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics and stays up to date with her maintenance of certification educational requirements in both disciplines, a practice that has been shown to drive better patient outcomes. After training, she worked as a hospitalist in New Jersey while her husband finished his training. Then, desiring to be closer to family, she moved with her husband to Arizona and has provided excellent health care in a variety of settings in Arizona for over 15 years. She has vast experience working as a teacher to medical students and residents, in the hospital as a hospitalist, in skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities helping people heal after prolonged hospital visits or major surgeries, in outpatient primary care clinics, as well as extensive experience working with underserved, special needs and developmentally delayed children and adults.
The name Tequa, has a Native American origin and means "the spirit of free-flowing water". The story passed on for generations is of a young female native American leader who stood at a fork in the Kansas River after her father the Chief of her tribe had died of infirmity along with many others while on the forced migration along the Trail of Tears. There, she gave a call to action to her surviving tribe, urging them to follow her along this River which led north to freedom instead of to the Reservation they had been assigned. Her people listened, and together they worked to navigate their way to freedom in Canada. This courageous, visionary, free-flowing spirit is an energy Dr. Tequa brings to her practice and life, with the goal of applying her knowledge and wisdom gained, in a manner that helps restore the body's natural ability to heal when there is unity and flow between the different body systems allowing them to function in optimal alignment.
