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Jaime Estrada is happily married and has two children. He is an active member of the county and National chapter of Movimiento Familiar Cristiano Catolico.
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(760) 890-5593
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Lorenzo Suarez was born and raised in Brawley, California. He is one of eleven children and grew up attending public school in Brawley from elementary through High school. He graduated from Brawley Union High School in 1974. After High School, he attended UCSD, La Jolla for Pre-Med studies and later transferred to University of Minnesota Medical School, graduating in 1983. He is Board Certified and a member of the Diplomat of American Academy of Family Physicians. The support and friendships of the Brawley Community strongly influenced Dr Suarez decision to return to his hometown and establish his medical practice.
Currently, Dr Suarez has a large Family Practice office in Brawley which serves the entire Imperial Valley. He is the Medical Director for Imperial County Physicians Medical Group. He serves on the sub-committee for Pioneer Memorial Hospital utilization management. He is also on staff for both local Hospitals; Pioneer Memorial Healthcare District and El Centro Regional Medical Center.
Dr. Suarez's hobbies include sports Medicine where he volunteers his time serving as the team physician for the local High School Football team as well as providing Health screenings and sports physicals to local teams in the Imperial Valley. He is a member of the Elks Lodge and long time member of the Knights of Columbus. Dr. Suarez has 5 children and is happily married to his wife of 32 years.
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Dr. Castellanos is Hispanic and Harvard trained physician. He subsequently trained at UC San Diego and UC Davis and is currently assistant clinical professor of internal medicine at UC San Diego.
He enjoys helping patients improve their cardiovascular health by applying evidence-based strategies, state-of-the-art technology and pharmacotherapy to target coronary disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other cardiac disease. He is a strong believer that in order to improve one's health, it takes a strong and honest partnership between the doctor and patient and a willingness to make lifestyle changes.
Dr. Castellanos has an interest in health outcomes research and Minority Health Policy. He studies how to effectively utilize existing health systems to monitor and develop strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular care.
Dr. Castellanos is well trained in wide range of cardiac services, including diagnostic cardiac catheterization, trans-esophageal echocardiography and stress testing. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Echocardiography.
Residency: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Fellowship: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Dr. Silva Enciso, MD practices Cardiology and Transplantation in La Jolla and San Diego. Jorge E. Silva Enciso, MD is a Cardiologist Assistant Professor of Medicine. His training and expertise in this field has helped improve the well-being of patients with advance cardiac disease by using the most up-to-date treatments.
Dr. Silva Enciso is able to perform different cardiac services including diagnostic catheterization to evaluate heart pumping function, echocardiography, evaluations for advance heart failure therapies including heart transplant and mechanical assist devices. He has a special interest in heart failure and recovery of heart function, and is currently involved in clinical trials investigating new therapies for patients with advanced heart failure.
He strongly feels that achieving a durable health requires a teamwork approach between the patient and his physician through compassionate care and dedication to accomplish such goal.
Dr. Silva Enciso enjoys working with patients of different backgrounds and is fluent if both English and Spanish. He provides care to underserved communities and conducts outreach in the Imperial Valley region. He particularly finds rewarding providing the best cardiac care to underserved populations.
Board Certifications:
Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Echocardiography
Cardiovascular Disease
Internal Medicine
Clinical Expertise Areas:
Heart Failure and Transplant
Mechanical Assist Device
Echocardiography
General Cardiology
Specialties:
Advanced heart failure
Mechanical circulatory support
Transplant cardiology
Dr. Vachaspathi Palakodeti is Board certified in Internal medicine and Cardiology. After medical schooling in India, he trained in Internal medicine at University of South Hampton and University of Nottingham in England. He has extensive experience at these teaching institutions during his training in England. He has obtained Membership of Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom (MRCP-UK) with a license to practice Medicine in the UK by The General Medical Council.
Dr. Palakodeti then continued his learning experience by joining University of California San Diego (UCSD), where he completed medical residency and cardiology fellowship and successfully obtained certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He is a fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC). He continues his patient care and clinical research work even to this date at UCSD and is an Honorary Professor of Medicine at UCSD.
Dr. Palakodeti is currently practicing and providing comprehensive cardiology care to Imperial Valley for over a decade at Imperial Cardiac Center, his office location in Imperial, California. All aspects of cardiac and vascular care including stress testing, echocardiogram, nuclear stress testing, Holter monitoring and pacemaker evaluations are performed in the office, besides evaluation and treatment of peripheral, renal and carotid vascular disease.
Dr. Palakodeti is on active medical staff at El Centro Regional Medical Center and Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, providing cardiology care to hospital patients and 24/7 on call coverage to these two hospitals with his cardiology group. He also works at the hospital clinics and at the Clinicas De Salud proving consultation services. He is on active staff at UCSD as well where he regularly performs invasive cardiac and peripheral angiography procedures.
Dr. Palakodeti is actively involved with the medical community of Imperial Valley. He is the past President of Imperial County Medical Society, the local wing of California Medical Association.
Dr. Palakodeti is committed to providing comprehensive and excellent quality cardiac care to the entire population of Imperial Valley both in patients and outpatients irrespective of the type of insurance. His office currently welcomes new patients.
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