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Michael Iversen MD Michael Iversen MD has 9 years of Emergency Medicine Experience and 10 Years of Family Medicine experience. He was an Emergency Room physician at Woodland from 2003 till 2008. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Board eligible in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Medicine. Dr. Iversen has lived in Texas most of his life. He went to college at the University of Texas in Austin. He Completed Medical School in San Antonio in 1989. He did his training with Southwestern Medical School in Family Medicine. Dr. Iversen practiced Medicine in the Fort Worth area before coming to East Texas. He is married and has 3 children and 3 grandchildren. He enjoys team-roping, bird hunting, working his Labradors, scuba diving, reading and photography. He is active at Carpenters Way Baptist Church. E-mail: mgiversen@urgentdoc.com |
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Savitha Balakrishna MD is Board Certified in Family Medicine, and she is board eligible in Urgent Care Medicine. She completed Medical School in India after which she moved to America. Dr Balakrishna completed her Family Medicine training in Detroit were she finished as a Chief Resident in her last year. She has worked in Urgent Care and Primary Care clinics in the past, and has been a partner with Urgent Doc since its inception. |
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Dr. Forrer joined us this year. Dr. Forrer graduated from Texas A & M University in 1981. He attained his medical degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he also did his postgraduate training. He practiced in Denton at the University of North Texas Student Health and Wellness Center for the past 16 years. Prior to pursuing a career in medicine, he spent five years coaching football and basketball and teaching science in middle school and high school. Dr. Forrer has a big family; his wife and he have 6 children that occupy a good bit of their lives. Outside his family and the practice of medicine he enjoys teaching Sunday school, traveling and coaching youth sports teams. |
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Kay Ferguson has come to join us after working in the trenches of the Emergency room. She worked the past several years at Memorial Hospital ER in Lufkin. Kay is also pursuing her doctorate in nurse practitioner. She has been involved with several clinics since 1999. Prior to that she has had a strong background in nursing from the ICU to being a director of Infectious control and education since 1993. She is a solid clinical addition to our staff, and she has been well liked throughout her career. Kay has lived in East Texas all her life. She enjoys playing the piano, singing, writing, reading, gardening and being with her family and friends. |
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Skyler Salmasi RN, MSN, NP-C Skyler Salmasi has been a real asset to Urgent Doc. She has an impressive educational and clinical background. Before becoming a nurse practitioner she began as a pediatric trauma & transplant nurse at University Hospital in San Antonio. She has also been an instructor in various universities and colleges teaching pharmacology & medical surgical nursing. She also has emergency room and charge nurse experience. She left one of the busiest clinics in Livingston to come to join our team, and we are glad she did. Skyler is an artist. She has been preparing a “castle” for her newly arrived addition, Skyler and her husband’s first child. Now she only needs to find time for one of her other hobbies, snowboarding! E-mail: ssalmasi@urgentdoc.com> |
Urgent Doc has many wonderful members on their team. The team is growing, as patient needs increases. Below are some team members that can be reached for key concerns. |
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Wanda has been with us since the inception of Urgent Doc. She started as our office manager. She spearheaded our Joint Commission Accreditation. She now oversee all operational activities for our clinics. She is always available for anyone to trouble shoot any issues that could possibly come up. |
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Linda has also been with us from the beginning. She has the daunting job of dealing with insurance and worker’s comp matters. She can be reached for all billing issues. |
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Carrie began to help keeping tabs on all issues of marketing and community involvement as we grew. Dr Iversen had been doing this from the beginning. But as other responsibilities took more time with clinical and administrative matters, he turned it over to Carrie. Carrie has been in banking prior to coming to Urgent Doc. She was a bank manager with several banks before she became a bank software trainer, which she did all over the US. She was involved in sales, PR and training before she stopped. She is married to Dr. Iversen. She has 3 children and 3 grand children. She enjoys traveling, horses, computers, decorating, Scuba diving and shopping. Carrie is a involved with the Junior League of Lufkin, and is an active member of Carpenters Way Baptist Church. |
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| Sat. | 8am – 6pm | |
| Sun. | 1pm – 6pm | |
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