MEDICAL STAFF UPDATE
New faces at
Bryan
Welcome these colleagues to the Bryan medical community Mohamad Alhajhusain, MD, nephrology, is associated with Nebraska Kidney Care, 402-466-8259. He graduated from the University of Aleppo, Syria, in 2006 and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and a nephrology fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center at Danville, Pa. Before joining Nebraska Kidney Care, Dr. Alhajhusain held teaching positions at the Aleppo University Hospital and the University of Buffalo. Douglas Althouse, MD, family medicine, joined Prairie Lake Family Medicine, 402-328-4700. Dr. Althouse graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine in 2003 and completed the University of Nebraska Medical Center/ Clarkson Family Medicine program in Omaha. Before moving to Lincoln, he was the hospice medical director at Asera Care Hospice in Kearney and was a family physician at Kearney County Health Services in Minden.
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Rajeev Chaturvedi, MD, psychiatry, joined Bryan Heartland Psychiatry, 402-483-8555. Dr. Chaturvedi graduated from Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India, and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals. He was an instructor in the Department of Pharmacology at Padmashree D.Y. Patil Medical College in Mumbai and received his medical degree in 1997. In 2007, he completed the Creighton/ University of Nebraska Medical Center psychiatry residency program in Omaha. Dr. Chaturvedi provided crisis center psychiatric services at the Region VI Crisis Center in Omaha and outpatient psychiatric services at Lutheran Family Services in Fremont and at the Park Plaza Clinic in Omaha before joining the staff at the Lincoln Regional Center, where he provided inpatient psychiatric services. Carla Church, DO, family medicine, joined Family Health Physicians, 402-484-5100. She graduated in 2010 from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Church completed the Clarkson Family Medicine residency program, Omaha, before becoming associated with Family Health Physicians.
Katie Garcia, DDS, pediatric dentistry, joined Lincoln Pediatric Dentistry, 402-476-1500. She graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, Lincoln, in 2010. Dr. Garcia completed a general practice residency at Peninsula Hospital Center, Far Rockaway, N.Y., and a pediatric dentistry residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago. She also participated in a dental mission trip to Nicaragua in 2006 and was a dental assistant at Lincoln Pediatric Dentistry while enrolled in dental school.