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Our Team
Dr Allison Santi, ABEM
Dr. Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Allison Santi, ABEM
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 board certified in Emergency Medicine and is an Associate Professor at Keck-USC School of Medicine occasionally teaching new doctors.
Corine Riedell PA-C
Dr. Ellen Crowe, ABFM, President
Dr Allison Santi, ABEM
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
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. 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 of our corporation.
Dr Udit Kondal
Jared Wong, PA-C
Jared Wong, PA-C
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.
Jared Wong, PA-C
Jared Wong, PA-C
Jared Wong, PA-C
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.
Beth Brown PA-C
Jared Wong, PA-C
Nancy Menges PA-C
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.
Nancy Menges PA-C
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Nancy Menges PA-C
We hire people with deep hands-on experience, and Nancy fits that description well. She graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine and also works for a clinic in the area that provides both primary care and Phase 3 clinical trials — so Nancy is research-focused and up to date.
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.
Kate Martin, RN
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Jeanell Guenther, FNP
Kate Martin is our Registered Nurse with years of Pediatric, Plastic surgery and ER experience. While in Dallas she worked for a prominent plastic surgeon, worked in the NICU and the pediatrics floors at Dallas Children’s Medical Center.
Deanna Guerra, IV cert LVN
Gina Faraci, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, 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, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, MA & phlebotomist
Gina Faraci, MA & phlebotomist
Gina is both a licensed Medical Assistant, a nationally certified phlebotomist and our operations specialist
Hey wait... that's three hats.
Paul McQuillan, practice mgr.
Gina Faraci, MA & phlebotomist
Dr. Roland Jacobs, psychiatrist
Paul wears multiple hats. In addition to being Dr. Crowe's husband, COO and Treasurer, he manages sales, scheduling, hiring, training, mobile medical technology, operations processes.... (continued)
Dr. Roland Jacobs, psychiatrist
Dr. Roland Jacobs, psychiatrist
Dr. Roland Jacobs, psychiatrist
Dr. Jacobs is an adult and geriatric psychiatrist who consults occasionally and treats our patients when needed. He started as a Brooklyn native, raised in New Jersey, and received his medical degree from the Robert Wood Johnson - Rutger’s Medical School. Roland completed his residency at UCLA and served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Research Psychiatrist at UCLA. He developed and runs inpatient and outpatient programs in geriatrics, adult and adolescent psychiatry in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Roland is a passionate skier and divides his time between Taos NM and here in Southern California. His prior education includes a BA in Zoology, and a post-doctoral Scholar in Neuroscience. Locally he spends significant time helping individual psychiatric patients and has also run psychiatric programs at five regional hospitals. Even part time, we like the skills he brings to our home-bound and very private patients.
What is a PA-C
Dr. Roland Jacobs, psychiatrist
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.
Emeritus team members
JoJo, our billing office dog
JoJo, our billing office dog
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
JoJo, our billing office dog
JoJo, our billing office dog
He knows which staff member is returning before their car is even parked outside.
Some thow a ball for JoJo, and some give him a scratch.
You can tell who the dog is expecting by how he's acting or standing in the hallway. JoJo is our furry doorbell.
Lots of energy.
Not much production.
Dislikes pandemic restrictions which eliminated scratches and ball-throwing, but the dog is adapting.