Our team

Board certified,
American Board of Internal Medicine

HIV Specialist Designated,
American Academy of HIV Medicine

Alice Dinter Manos (she/her) is a primary care physician trained in internal medicine. She completed medical school and internal medicine residency at the University of Washington with a focus on primary care. During residency, Alice worked at the Madison Clinic at Harborview Medical Center providing primary care to patients living with HIV. She also created a Trans Health Elective to educate resident physicians on gender affirming care and co-founded the Health Equity Pathway, which teaches residents how to apply anti-oppression frameworks to address health inequities at interpersonal, societal and institutional levels. Prior to entering medicine, Alice worked as a birth doula at SeaMar Medical Center in Burien, as a medical case manager for people living with HIV at the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative in Philadelphia, and as a staff member at Spiral Q Puppet Theater (a community arts and social justice organization best known for their giant puppets at celebratory events and protests).

As a queer physician, Alice cares deeply about providing medical care that matches her patients’ values and supports the lives they live. She welcomes patients of all sexual orientations and genders and provides gender affirming care for transgender and non-binary folks including hormone therapy. She also provides primary care for people living with HIV.  

When she’s not taking care of patients, Alice enjoys spending time with her partner Jesse and their kiddo, bike camping, learning guitar and making earrings out of found materials. In addition to English, she speaks Spanish and German.

Joshua Lumsden (he/him) brings expertise, empathy, and a forward-thinking approach to queer-affirming primary care. A proud Seattleite since 2003, Joshua was born and raised in Southwest Washington, and has built his career as a trusted healthcare provider for the LGBTQIA+ community.  As a physician assistant who specializes in queer affirming primary care for adults, he blends his evidence-based clinical skills with an approach that is candid and compassionate.   Prior to working as a physician associate, he worked in mental health and developmental disabilities case management for eleven years.

Joshua earned his Masters in Clinical Health Services in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Washington in 2016. He began his clinical career in adult internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where he practiced for eight years, while concurrently working in psychiatry at Sound Mental Health for four years. Fluent in Spanish, he has used his language skills in clinical settings.

Joshua’s clinical passions include HIV treatment and prevention, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and optimizing health through exercise, fitness, and nutrition. He has completed advanced coursework through the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and has published on PrEP implementation. At Virginia Mason, he led pioneering initiatives on suicide prevention, PrEP initiation, and expanding acccess to gender-affirming care.

A dynamic educator and advocate, Joshua frequently lectures nationally and locally on HIV care and gender-affirming health. As President of the Washington Academy of Physician Assistants and co-host of The PA Playbook podcast, he champions professional growth and advocacy for the physician assistant community. In 2022, he was honored with the inaugural Carol Verga Advanced Practice Provider of the Year award from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.

Joshua’s patient care philosophy is science based, and focuses on preventing chronic conditions, while emphasizing patient autonomy.   He emphasizes creating a safe, sex-positive space where patients are encouraged to make decisions that align with their personal goals and values.

Outside the clinic, Joshua brings the same passion to his personal life. A dedicated weightlifter who loves a challenge, he competed in an amateur bodybuilding competition in 2022. When he’s not in the gym, you’ll find him experimenting in the kitchen, attending the opera, or planning his next travel adventure. An advocate at heart, Joshua also engages in state and federal legislative work to advance PA practice and transgender health rights. He shares his Seattle home with his longtime partner and their charming geriatric chihuahua, Rocco.

Board certified,
American Board of Internal Medicine

Board eligible,
American Board of Integrative Medicine

Dr. Rongitsch (she/her) is a physician, board-certified in internal medicine and board-eligible in integrative medicine. She grew up in Minnesota and graduated from University of Minnesota Medical School.  She completed her residency in internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center. From there she worked in public health at a community clinic, caring for medically complex patients for close to a decade. 

In recent years Dr. Rongitsch has been a partner at Capitol Hill Medical where she has had the privilege to care for LGBTQ patients (and allies) in a safe space.  She strives to provide thoughtful, evidence-informed care that is respectful of all gender identities and sexual orientations. 

Throughout her career, Dr. Rongitsch has been teaching residents and medical students from Virginia Mason, Swedish, and University of Washington. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP). For several years running, (2015-2021) Dr. Rongitsch has been named a Seattle Metropolitan Top Doctor.  

In addition to LGTBQ-health, Dr. Rongitsch has had a long-standing interest in holistic medicine. She has spent years studying meditation, mind-body medicine, herbal medicine, and some functional medicine. She has formalized this education by completing a two year fellowship for physicians in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine-University of Arizona.

Dr. Rongitsch is now offering integrative medicine care-- a deep dive into a patient’s health concern(s) that pulls in all natural healing modalities. She believes that we all possess the potential for healing and that food is medicine.  She is willing to meet patients wherever they may be in their healing process. She tries to offer natural remedies and holistic options in addition to standard evidence-based conventional medicine whenever possible. 

Dr. Rongitsch has had many years experience working with trans* patients and considers this to be the great privilege of her career. She prescribes gender-affirming hormones on the basis of informed consent,  primary care post-op care following gender affirming surgeries, and integrative care for trans* and gender-variant patients.

Dr. Rongitsch’s patient panel is currently at full capacity. She will be reassessing periodically, so feel free to check back.

Board certified,
American Board of Internal Medicine

Vy Chu (pronounced "vee choo"; he/him) has committed his career to the service of our community as one of the founding members of Capitol Hill Medical. He grew up in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of D.C., and attended college at Duke University in North Carolina. Upon graduation, he enjoyed a few years working as an emergency medical technician and medical assistant.

He received his M.D. from the University of Washington and completed his residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He is board certified in Internal Medicine. He is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).

Vy's passion for the primary care of the queer community originated during residency, when he completed a rotation at the San Francisco City Clinic, a downtown public health clinic on the forefront of gender-affirming care, HIV care, and STD medicine. His experiences here led directly to his founding of Capitol Hill Medical in 2008. Several years into practice, he was invited by the UW School of Medicine to revamp and teach an elective course on LGBTQ healthcare disparities, which eventually became an integral component of the School’s LGBTQ Health Pathway curriculum. Vy has been a guest expert on Dan Savage’s “Lovecast” several times.

Vy’s patient panel is at full capacity. He is unable to take on any new patients (including partners as spouses) at this time, but reviews his status quarterly.