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Our team: Doctors riding up to homes like yours since 2011
"Dr Nicole" Joel, ABIM
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Call now to learn why she joined our concierge group in 2023, "Dr Nicole" Joel is a board certified Internal Medicine physician who brings great experience to our team. Those skills come from her years as a primary care attending physician at both University of California, San Diego Medical Center and Olive View UCLA Medical Center.
She did her Internal Medicine residency at Olive View Medical center in 2014. Then later at UCSD Medical Center Dr Nicole served as both primary care attending physician and as a teacher for new resident physicians and medical students in the Continuity Clinic and in the Ambulatory Care apprenticeship clinic.
Board-certified by ABIM (American Board Of Internal Medicine) since 2017, Dr Nicole is comfortable with the latest treatments in primary care. She has extensive experience in treating diabetes, asthma, heart disease, obesity and mental health.
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Call for the best. When we last slowed down to count, Dr. Crowe has more than 45,000 hours in the Emergency Department and personally treated over 110,000 patients herself.
In addition to being a top ER doc, she is also Board Certified in Family Practice (ABFM), president and founder of this medical group.
Dr. Crowe is an Emergency Room physician since 1990 and licensed in both CA and IN. She did her residency in Family Medicine and brings significant experience to you. That background means she considers and treats the entire patient overall.
Some people get lost in the corporate insurance-driven medical system. Her inspiration to treat those lost, missing or poorly served patients caused her to found this medical group. Her high expectations mean we are all driven consider and manage all aspects of a patient's care.
In every single ER, whenever the hospital has a VIP arrive they want Dr Crowe to handle the case.
Dr Jolie Pfahler, ABEM
Dr Jolie Pfahler, ABEM
One phone call and Dr. Jolie Pfahler brings a wealth of ER experience to you. A graduate of UCLA School of Medicine, Dr Pfahler loves being a physician. She enjoys working with the whole spectrum of patient ages, diagnoses, and treatments.
Her clinical skills and procedures are excellent. She loves the immediate relief procedures often deliver for patients. Yet, Dr Pfahler is especially proud of being able to connect easily with patients.
She understands the anxiety patients often have when seeing a doctor, discussing medical problems or experiencing medical emergencies. Dr Pfahler has a history of quickly gaining a patient’s trust, establishing a rapport and alleviating fears.
Corine Riedell PA-C
Corine is Dr. Crowe's business partner here since 2011. A phone call brings and understanding ear to your side.
She honed her skills in CA clinics caring for people who never ever had a doctor -- seeing diseases and complications that others only read about in textbooks.
Corine Riedell comes to us from UC Davis School of Medicine and also holds a Masters in Public Health. As a PA-C, she can treat anything, write prescriptions, orders and more.
Dr Allison Santi, ABEM
Calling for Dr Allison Santi helps you find great member of our group: a compassionate doctor who empowers people to take care of their health. Dr. Allison is double-board certified in:
Integrative Medicine and
Emergency Medicine.
Dr Allison completed her Fellowship program through IPI (Integrative Psychiatry Institute) which is the top fellowship combining psychoactive physician treatment with therapy. She added these skills because of her extensive treatment for patients with emotional issues, PTSD or a history of abuse.
Dr. Santi is also an Associate Professor at Keck-USC School of Medicine occasionally teaching new doctors.
Her early experiences in International Medicine developed three skills that are not usually found in the same doctor.
Dr Stella Cohen, Pulmonology Critical Care and ABIM
Calling for Pulmonology and Critical Care connects you with Dr. Stella Cohen, a board-certified Pulmonary & Critical Care specialist serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Her hospital affiliations include Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center.
Dr Cohen provides expert, individualized care to patients with complex respiratory conditions and brings a thoughtful, patient-centered approach to every clinical encounter.
She is a 2017 graduate of the three year Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Cohen also sees select patients through this concierge house call medical group, offering high-touch, personalized care tailored to the unique needs of individuals and families. These advanced consultations are above and beyond her work in-hospital.
Dr Anya Consiglio, ABIM
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Get introduced to a great locally grown and educated doctor: Anya Consiglio MD is thrilled to be back in the Ventura/Santa Barbara area.
We hired her specifically to care for our patients in Montecito and Ojai. She obtained a degree in psychology from UC Santa Barbara and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Santa Barbara’s Cottage Hospital in 2005.
In between these local opportunities Dr. Consiglio graduated from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 2002. We’ll let the USC vs UCLA rivalry settle itself outside of medicine.
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Gina is both a licensed Medical Assistant, a nationally certified phlebotomist and the supervisor for our medical group.
Hey wait... that's three hats.
Gina has her finger on the pulse of almost everything that goes on here -- and can tell the status of almost every case and the associated patient needs.
She also is a wonderful instructor who can easily demonstrate and train new staff how to draw labs on the many 105 year old patients -- and the toddlers -- at HCDTO.
Marie Campbell, FNP
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
A phone call for Marie brings years of experience to you. The wide variety in her background that makes a great provider. She has nine years of deep ER experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner, building upon 5+ years in the ICU at a large regional hospital.
Sutures are easy because of her tremendous amount of experience. Previously as a Captain in the California Army National Guard she was responsible for care of her fellow soldiers.
Beth Brown PA-C
Darlene Addison RN
Beth’s background is Family Medicine with an emphasis on orthopedics and sports. A call for Beth gets one of our trigger-point specialists to you -- doing those trigger point injections by hand or under ultrasound guidance.
Beth is certified for therapeutic injections for migraines and more. She trained at Mount Sinai Hospital, Women’s Health Care, and graduated from Chicago’s Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine.
Darlene Addison RN
Darlene Addison RN
Darlene is a Registered Nurse who we share with the UCLA Level 1 Trauma Center Emergency Room in Westwood and the UCLA ER in Santa Monica.
She has been part of that high intensity ER system since 2006. Darlene is the mother of two children. She served as a California State Lifeguard and lifeguard instructor herself, and is married to a Captain in Los Angeles County Lifeguards.
Darlene Addison earned her degrees at Santa Barbara City College and University of California Santa Barbara. She has earned a few honors along the way, including LA County Medal of Valor Recipient
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
Dylan Estrada is the third member of our MA/phlebotomy team here at HCDTO. He’s been in the medical field since 2013, graduating in 2018 as Medical Assistant/phlebotomist.
He’s worked at two other medical practices, plus another busy medical office since 2020 and is also now a nationally certified phlebotomist.
One of the key requirements for our office team is that they listen carefully to gather the relevant details. You may find it easy to build rapport with him after just one or two conversations.
C. Olivia Knight, IV cert LVN
Olivia is a highly proficient LVN with both supervisory experience and IV certification. She has a gracious accent, extensive experience at Internal Medicine clinics, Behavioral Health, a home health agency and as a private nurse in Beverly Hills. She makes people in all those situations happy and at ease.
At the very large clinic, Facey, Olivia was one of the key nurses responsible for medication reconciliation both pre and post surgery. Those skills tie in with her huge IV experience to benefit you as our patient.
Olivia moved here from Uganda and then graduated in 2002 from Texas Southern University. That school is one of the largest HBCU (historically black college or university) with over 10,000 students in over 100 degree programs. She has a broad understanding of the world and likes it here in California with her three children.
Paul McQuillan, practice mgr.
Paul is often the first contact for many new patients -- and always for patients with critical or complex issues. He may often be the first voice existing patients hear at 2 AM.
More than anything else, his role is to already know or identify the resources to solve each novel problem-of-the-day. Five seasons in Antarctica drove home the importance of operational planning early in his career.
Paul wears multiple hats in order to "make magic happen at 11 PM" for patients.
In addition to being Dr. Crowe's husband and COO, he manages operations processes, scheduling, hiring, training, sales, mobile medical technology.... (continued)
Jamie Watkins, RN
Jamie is enjoying a great career and is a highly competent asset to our team. She has deep experience in the ER, as a clinical instructor training brand new nurses, even more ER experience and as a Medical Technical Advisor on the studio lots.
Starting in the ER at St Joseph’s in Mission Viejo she rose rapidly to manage a 4 bed high acuity (complex) patient assignment. Jamie quickly grew into the role of preceptor for new hires in that ER and supervision of patient care.
Jamie Watkins graduated with a Bachelors in Health Science from California State University and then went back to earn her Masters of Science in Nursing graduating again from California State University
Emeritus team members
JoJo, our billing office dog R.I.P
Nicole Pablo is off to her Masters PA-C program. In a few years your medical office may get a chance to hire this woman, If you do, make it a good offer.
She worked here as an MA, and is a UCLA graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Psychobiology. Her prior experience includes over a year as an MA for a large endocrinologist office, and more, plus a six month language immersion program working at rural medical clinics in Guatemala.
If she decides to return to the West Coast we may make an offer first.
JoJo, our billing office dog R.I.P
JoJo, our billing office dog R.I.P
JoJo died just before Christmas 2021, and was here from the very start of this medical group. He learned which staff member was returning before their car was even parked outside.
Some threw a ball for JoJo, and some gave him a scratch. Some staff even brought their own dogs to visit
You could tell who the dog was expecting by how he acted or was standing in the hallway. JoJo was our furry doorbell and we miss him greatly.
Lots of energy.
Not much production.
Disliked pandemic restrictions which eliminated scratches and ball-throwing, but the dog was flexible and adapted.
What is a PA-C
What is a PA-C
It's the same intense World War II program used to train doctors for the battlefield. This Masters degree program requires thousands of hours of hands on clinical experience BEFORE someone can even apply. The program emphasizes hands on diagnostics and treatment, so you see a PA-C often in the ER and Family Practice.
The PA-C education happens in a different order. Traditional medical schools are a masters degree followed by three years of hands on clinical residency. The PA programs changes that order with 3,000+ hours of clinical experience first, then a masters degree, followed by a series of additional hands-on clinical rotations.
Physician Assistant programs have spread to every major medical school in the USA. During Vietnam, the program re-started at Duke University when four highly experienced Navy Corpsman returned from the battlefield.