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- Jeanell Guenther FNP
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- What is a PA-C
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Our Team: Riding up to homes like yours since 2011
Dr Allison Santi, ABEM
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Allison Santi is a great addition to our group: a compassionate doctor who empowers people to take care of their health. Her early experiences developed three skills that are not usually found in the same doctor.
Allison listens deeply to patients, is a Fellow in Integrative Medicine and is board certified in Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Santi is also an Associate Professor at Keck-USC School of Medicine occasionally teaching new doctors.
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr. Crowe is an Emergency Room physician since 1990 and licensed in both CA and IN. She did her residency in family practice and brings significant family practice experience to you. That means she considers and treats the entire patient overall.
The result of her inspiration: we are all driven to treat and consider the needs of the entire patient
As of 2021, Dr Crowe now also heads her hospital's Domestic Violence Treatment Team. In addition to being an ER doc, she is also Board Certified in Family Practice (ABFM) and the president and founder of our medical group.
Dr Jolie Pfahler, ABEM
Dr Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Jolie Pfahler, ABEM
Dr. Jolie Pfahler brings a wealth of ER experience. 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
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Corine is Dr. Crowe's business partner and 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.
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.
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Dr. Kondal has the varied background our group seeks. He also manages chart reviews for our internal quality team. He graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine, Board certified in Family Practice (ABFM), and magna cum laude from Columbia University NY.
Beth Brown PA-C
Dr Udit Kondal, ABFM
Marie Campbell, FNP
Beth’s background is Family Medicine with an emphasis on orthopedics and sports. She does trigger-point injections, 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.
Marie Campbell, FNP
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Marie Campbell, FNP
Marie has 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.
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jeanell has a long career as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). People love Jeanell's warmth and humanity. She graduated Magna cum Laude twice — from both the Bachelors and Masters degree programs at CSUB.
Jared Wong, PA-C
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jared arrived in Ventura from high-intensity ERs in very different sized cities: the 1,000 bed Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York, Queens Hospital and Jamaica Hospital in Queens, NY, and Victorville Hospital in CA.
Deanna Guerra, IV cert LVN
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Deanna brings a world of experience in IV therapy, Emergency Room and large clinic work staring in 1999. She has seen everything from work as a phlebotomist, ER nursing at Los Robles Medical Center and family practice.
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.
Darlene Addison, RN
Gina Faraci, Supervisor, MA & phlebotomist
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
Darlene is a Registered Nurse who comes to us from 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, and we love that Darlene is sharing her time here with the patients at HCDTO.
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
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.
Paul McQuillan, practice mgr.
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
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.
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
Dylan Estrada, MA & phlebotomist
Paul McQuillan, practice mgr.
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.
What is a PA-C
JoJo, our billing office dog R.I.P
Emeritus team members
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.
Emeritus team members
JoJo, our billing office dog R.I.P
Emeritus team members
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, 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.