Stacy L. Waneka, M.D.

Dr. Waneka is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She received her medical degree at the University of California at Davis, completing her residency training at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. She has been in private practice in the Santa Monica area since 2000, and began practicing in Pacific Palisades in 2003.
Dr. Waneka enjoys a varied practice, combining the care of both children and adults. To facilitate longer visits with her older patients and eliminate the need for them to travel to her office, she regularly rounds at the Sunrise Assisted Living facility in the Palisades. She is also a team physician with Roze Roome Hospice, a program that provides services to the terminally ill and their families.  Dr. Waneka harbors a unique and personal interest in Travel Medicine. She spent part of her early life in Saudi Arabia and has since traveled extensively, including such adventures as trekking through Nepal and motorcycling across India. She's also engaged in more serious ventures as when she provided emergency relief care to Kosovar refugees during the Bosnian conflict.
Active in the physician community, Dr. Waneka sits on the Board of the American Private Physician’s Association, an organization committed to providing quality medical care in a difficult regulatory environment; and helped establish the Professional Women’s Health Collaborative to help female health care providers balance their personal and professional commitments.  A member of both the Pacific Palisades and Topanga Chambers of Commerce, Dr. Waneka resides in Topanga with her husband, daughter, two cats and one dog.

 M.D. Degree - Uiniversity of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

AFFILIATIONS:
American Academy of Family Physicians
Los Angeles County Medical Association
California Medical Association
International Society of Travel Medicine
American Private Physician’s Association

Lyndsey D. Robinson, RN, FNP, NP-C

Lyndsey D. Robinson, RN, FNP, NP-C is the latest addition to our team. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a wide range of skills and experience. Born in California, she grew up on the east coast living in Massachusetts, and attending Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she picked up her BSN degree, cum laude.
She returned to California and through a subsequent stint in ICU, she gained valuable nursing experience which she combined with her proficiency in conversational Spanish to volunteer on medical missions in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico.
Those missions encouraged her to return to school, “I realized that I enjoyed the early intervention and prevention aspect of medicine more. Therefore, I decided to change the focus of my career to primary care and become a Family Nurse Practitioner.”  She enrolled at UCLA to get her MSN degree, accomplishing that in 2005 as well as receiving the UCLA Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Award Nominee Letter of Commendation.
She immediately began practice as an FNP in a variety of community and school-based health centers in Stockton, California, and then moved to a multi-disciplinary health care system in Brockton, Massachusetts, where we found her.
She is now home again in Southern California, and doing what she loves. “As a Family Nurse Practitioner, I most enjoy helping people live healthier lives and preventing illnesses.”
Her off days are spent on long walks with her new husband and her dog, Lukas. She also enjoys traveling, spending time with friends, and staying active with jogging, hiking and yoga.
If you want to see her eyes light up, though, talk to her about her dreams of a stint with the Peace Corps or even a career on the silver screen, “I‘ve always dreamed about what it would be like to be an actress, it sounds like such an exciting and fun experience.”

 Master of Science in Nursing, University of California Los Angeles
AANP National Certification:  Family Nurse Practitioner
California Board of Registered Nursing

Karen Sullivan

Karen Sullivan, our Medical Assistant/Receptionist, is a California native who grew up largely in Hawthorne, except for the five years she spent in Alaska. She has 6 daughters and an annual pass to Disneyland. Karen married her high school sweetheart after reuniting with him at their 30-year reunion. She loves spending time with her children and grandchildren and watching college football, especially her favorite UCBerkeley Golden Bears. With that background, it's no wonder she calls herself a "people person," saying, "I have always been compassionate. I guess that makes for, in my mind, a good medical office receptionist. I like being able to get to know the patients, to make them feel comfortable in situations where they may be not be feeling well and could be facing the unknown."

Amie Tran

Amie Tran, Medical Assistant, was born in Vietnam and grew up in southern California. Her experiences in war-torn Southeast Asia were her inspiration for a health services career.
“I've wanted to be a nurse since I was a little girl,” she says, “During the war time I saw so many people needing medical attention but there weren’t enough nurses to help all those patients so, I thought to myself, 'I want to be one of those people.' So, here I am today, still working on becoming a nurse."
As the first step in building her career, Amie attended Bryman College to become a Medical Assistant. She found that she liked it, “I love everything about my work! I like drawing blood, giving injections, educating patients. If you're not happy with what you’re doing, you're not going to put that 120% into the work which can make a big difference in people’s lives.
Amie’s outside interests include arts and crafts, shopping, decorating, cooking, bowling, golfing, billiards and BBQ. She’s still working to become, “a travel nurse, to travel the globe to help as many people as I can — and to eat all the good food around the world.”

Jackie McCalister

Jackie McCalister, Administrative Assistant, gets a lot of satisfaction from her job as it allows her “to help people who need help. To assist or just be there if needed.” Indeed, she views her mission in life as, “listening to people’s concerns and helping to find a solution.” In her spare time, Jackie likes to, “listen to music, spend time with family and friends, go to movies or concerts, and sometimes—to do nothing." Jackie marks as her proudest day, “the day I realized that I do enjoy helping people. When I first became a Certified Nursing Assistant and I liked what I represented.”