A native midwesterner, Dr. Cueva graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2000 before finally arriving in her true home, California, for her pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. She was a Clinical Instructor at Stanford for 10 years, caring for patients in the neonatal intensive care unit, the inpatient ward, the resident teaching clinic, and the development and behavior clinic. She established her thriving practice at Burgess Pediatrics in 2014, and it continues to bring her joy every day.‍ ‍

Dr. Cueva is passionate about holistic and preventative medicine - what makes you thrive, not just survive.  She emphasizes both physical and emotional health, and has a deep interest in working with families around sleep, nutrition, exercise, development, parenting, and social-emotional wellbeing.  

Dr. Cueva enjoys caring for the full gamut of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults, and appreciates the unique gifts associated with each age and stage. In addition to her patients, her most important teachers have been her own three children. She understands the challenges of raising kids in the Bay Area, and her experience as a mother has helped foster her collaborative style — working together with families to individualize care, based on both the latest medical science and each patient’s unique situation and needs.