Alfio F. Saglimbeni, MD graduated from the University of Messina Medical School in Italy in 1959. He came to the United States in January 1962. He completed his post-graduate studies at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey and at French Hospital and Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, California.

He started practicing family medicine in April 1966 in San Jose and has continuously practiced since that time. His first office was on Lincoln Avenue in downtown Willow Glen, and he moved into medical offices at 2101 Forest Avenue in 1975. He was the first physician to move into that building, which had previously been a school for nursing.

After he started his practice, he took the National Board in Family Practice and became board certified. He has been board certified for more than 30 years.

He has been happily married to Nina for almost 45 years, and is the proud father of three sons, (Anthony, Phil, and Sal) and one daughter (Maria), and the proud grandfather of 13 gorgeous grandchildren.