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Rodney Raabe, MD

Board certified Dr. Rodney Raabe, MD is currently the director of radiology at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. He also serves as a director of the angio/interventional department and the noninvasive laboratory.

Dr. Raabe graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School. Since that time, Dr. Raabe completed an internship at the University of Utah, as well as a fellowship in ultrasound/CT. During his residency in radiology at the University of Utah he was appointed chief. He was awarded a fellowship with the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology in 2000.

Dr. Raabe is a member of the Society Interventional Radiology, SIR, the American Medical Association, the American College of Radiology, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Radiological Society of North America and the Spokane County Medical Society. He serves as a Co-Chairman for the Legs for Life Screening Program for Peripheral Vascular Disease, the Chairman of the National Venous Forum — a delegate for the Washington Medical Society, a representative for the WMI, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Spokane Physician Hospital Community.

Dr. Gary Kersten, MD

Dr. Kersten received his MD degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Illinois in June 1976. He then completed a four year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Saginaw, Michigan and had a private practice in Michigan until 1993, when he moved to Glendale, Arizona. Dr. Kersten incorporated medical lasers in medicine both for surgical uses in the operating room and cosmetic applications in the office setting. Dr. Kersten has also had further training in vein therapy with some of the top physicians in the field.

Spice Lussier, NMD

Dr. Spice Lussier is a Naturopathic physician whose special interest is aesthetic medicine.  Dr. Lussier received her undergraduate degree in Bio-medical Chemistry from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She then pursued a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona.  She has completed additional training in the use of dermal fillers, Botox® cosmetic and sclerotherapy.  Dr. Lussier also assists in performing Endo Venous Laser Therapy (EVLT).

ROBERT L. FORTUNE, M.D.

Dr. Robert L. Fortune is a Canadian trained pediatric and adult cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon.  He did his medical school training at the University of Alberta, graduating a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.  He trained in adult cardiac surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital and pediatric cardiac surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.  He was awarded a McLaughlin Travelling Fellowship and did a year of research at the Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm Sweden.  He was an Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Alberta.  During his time in practice in Phoenix Arizona, he was Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Michele DePlanche, RT, RDMS, RDCS, CDT

Michele is a graduate of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center School of Radiologic Technology, She also completed the Vascular Ultrasound Program at Gateway Community College.  She is a member of American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (AART), Medical Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners (MRTBE) of Arizona and International Society for Clinical Densitometry.