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 Room 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,  two cats and one dog.  M.D. DEGREE - UNIVERSITY 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
			Julia Castillo Julia Castillo, Medical Assistant, is a California native who grew up in Venice. She has been working in the medical field for 6 years with an extensive background in OB-Gyn. She loves working with the newborns. Julia also is humbled by the opportunity to alter the course of a person’s life that presents itself from time to time in a medical office. In one critical instance she helped stabilize and transfer a 44 year-old male in acute cardiac arrest from our office to the OR where he was successfully treated by the cardiologists. Lately, Julia has been on maternity leave while she sees to her own latest newborn, Isabella.
			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 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 That cheerful voice you hear on the other end of the phone is most likely Jackie McCalister, Reception. Jackie 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.”

 

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