Community Baptist Medical Group Opens New Primary Care Clinic in Pine Forest Baptist Medical Group opened Baptist Medical Group Primary Care – Pine Forest in August. It is the newest clinic in the extensive multispecialty BMG network and is currently staffed by Tammy Pruse, D.O., and Jodi Holz, APRN-C. The clinic is located at 2115 West Nine Mile Road, Suite 2 in Pensacola.
Baptist Medical Group Welcomed Three New Physicians in August Fellowship-trained endocrinologist Suraj Patel, M.D., has joined Tareq Khairalla, M.D., at Baptist Medical Group – Endocrinology. Dr. Patel earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Baptist Medical Group Primary Care – Airport welcomed family medicine physician David Echeverri, M.D. Dr. Echeverri joins Baptist from Foley,
Alabama, where he completed his residency in family medicine at South Baldwin Regional Medical Center. He earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Portsmouth, Dominica, West Indies.
Board-certified family medicine physician Kristy Nguyen, M.D., has joined Baptist Medical Group Family Medicine – Nine Mile. Dr. Nguyen earned
South Alabama Family Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. She also holds a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Baptist Heart & Vascular Institute Earns Re-accreditation by Intersocietal Accreditation Commission Baptist Heart & Vascular Institute (BHVI) was the first in the nation to earn accreditation in both cardiovascular catheterization and cardiac electrophysiology through the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in 2017. BHVI
has now earned re-accreditation in adult diagnostic catheterization, percutaneous coronary intervention, valve interventions, structural heart interventions, testing and ablation, device implantation, chronic lead extraction, echocardiography, stress echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear studies, carotid ultrasound, upper and lower extremity abdominal aorta, venous and arterial duplex studies, and venous reflux. BHVI cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology team members are also fully certified through Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI). BHVI’s cardiac sonographers are 100% dual registered in echocardiogram and vascular studies through either Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) or American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). All nuclear technicians have also obtained either American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) or Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification (NMTCB) as well as accreditation in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging studies (MPI).
her medical degree at the American University of the Caribbean in Cupecoy, St. Martin, and completed her residency at the University of
Dr. Katarina Gambosova, a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, has
joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Medicine, which is affiliated with Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola. She comes to Pensacola from Stormont-Vail Hospital in Kansas, where she developed the pediatric endocrinology
Cardiologist Dr. Sergey Kachur has joined Ascension Sacred Heart
Pensacola.
Dr. Mallory Lewis has joined Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart. She
program for 10 years.
practices at Pace Medical Park, 3754 Hwy. 90, Suite 300, in Pace.
Dr. Heather Nolan, pediatric surgeon, and Dr. Kristen Ann Newcomer, pediatric hospitalist, have joined the team at the Studer Family
Dr. Cory Lebowitz has joined Ascension Sacred Heart Orthopedics and the office of Dr. David Fiedler. Dr. Lebowitz sees patients in the Hand Center
Children’s Hospital.
Maternal-fetal medicine doctor and geneticist Dr. Melissa S. Mancuso has joined the Ascension Sacred Heart Regional Perinatal Center in Pensacola. Dr. Mancuso served most recently as director of Akron
Children’s Hospital Fetal Treatment Center, as well as chair of maternalfetal medicine and an associate professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine.
at Ascension Sacred Heart Health Center at Summit, 1890 Summit Blvd., Suite 240, in Pensacola.
Dr. Scott Stewart, orthopedic surgeon, has joined AMG Sacred Heart. He sees patients at the Orthopedics office at 4541 N. Davis Hwy. in Pensacola.
Dr. Frank Farokhi, neurosurgeon, specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and joins the office of Dr. Maria Toledo, Dr. Ann Carr, Dr. Nathan Kohler, Dr. Christopher Villar and pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Gus Perez.
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