Floyd Russak grew up in Denver and graduated from Cherry Creek High School in 1973. He earned his bachelor’s Degree at Northwestern University in Chicago studying Music and Biology. He then went on to receive his M.D. degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he served on the team that treated President Reagan in 1981. Dr. Russak’s internship and residency training were completed at Harvard Medical School in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Russak served on the Faculty of Harvard Medical School for 12 years and was founder of Somerville Family Health, a 10-physician, 4-office multi-specialty practice in Boston, which he sold to Harvard in 1996. He has had numerous television appearances on CBS in Boston. Dr. Russak practiced at DTC Family Health from 1997-1999 and is now proud to be part of the team caring for adults and children at East-West Health Center.

Dr. Russak’s special interests include managing high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetics, cardiac/lung problems, and weight loss. In addition to routine medical care, he is trained to perform minor office surgical and orthopedic procedures such as wart removal, biopsies, and simple fractures. Dr. Russak is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Russak used to serve on the Copper Mountain Ski Patrol and was a singer with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. He now skiis Keystone and Aspen. He serves on the Board of Delegates of the Colorado Medical Society and in married with 2 children, ages 12 and 16.

Dr. Yudez is a nationally board certified Family practitioner. He has always desired to become a physician. He is a native Coloradoan and attended the University of Colorado with masters work in Organismal Biology at the University of Denver. While working on his masters, he was the Director of the Pulmonary Laboratory at Lutheran Medical Center, Wheatridge, Colorado. Under his direction, exercise stress testing was developed to evaluate lung disease and exercise.

Deciding to approach medicine with treating the whole person, he pursued an Osteopathic Medical Education at the University of Health Science, Kansas City Missouri. He graduated 6th in his class of 170. He was intern of the year and also resident of the year in his family practice residency. He has received numerous Osteopathic awards for contributions to his unique profession.

Dr. Yudez lives with his wife and 3 teens. He enjoys hiking, hockey and his family.

Dr. Carstensen was born and raised on the Nebraska plains. He attended Creighton University and graduated from Creighton Medical School in 1968. He met his wife, Jane, at Creighton. He interned at St. Joseph´s Hospital in Phoenix, practiced two years in the Indian Health Service on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, was ship´s physician in the Coast Guard three months, and a resident one year at the University of Minnesota, practiced in Oregon City before moving in 1974 to Colorado to be closer to family. He practiced two years with the Denver Neighborhood Health program before starting practice in Aurora.

He first passed American Board of Family Medicine in 1974 and has recertified by exam five times since. He joined the American Academy of Family Physicians in 1971 and became a Fellow in 1975. He gained a Master of Health Care Systems from Denver University in 1992. In 1999 he obtained a Personal Trainer´s certification from American Council on Exercise. He has been an active member and elected officer on many professional and community committees.

Dr. Carstensen is a healthy, active senior who recognizes the value of health. He has a longstanding personal and professional interest in encouraging and coaching life styles that prevent and mitigate illness. “Health lost is rarely recovered.”

He married Jane in 1967. They have three children and two grandchildren.

Dr. Mark Foster, DO is a board certified family physician and writer. He provides holistic and compassionate medical care for all ages, including pediatrics, with an emphasis on healthy lifestyle counseling and alternative mental health care. He has particular interest in helping patients withdraw from psychiatric medications that may be unwarranted and detrimental to their emotional and physical health.

Mark grew up in Littleton, Colorado and graduated from Chatfield High School in 1992. He attended Brigham Young University where he received a bachelor's degree in English in 1999. He then attended medical school at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 2003 as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.). He completed his family medicine residency at North Colorado Family Medicine in Greeley, Colorado in 2006, where he was named Family Medicine Resident of the Year in 2006. He has practiced full-spectrum rural family medicine in Worland, Wyoming, and traditional outpatient family medicine in Littleton, Colorado.

Through his experiences and self-education, Mark began to feel increasingly uncomfortable with the prevailing approach to medicine in the United States, which so heavily emphasizes prescription drugs. He found this most concerning in regards to psychiatric drugs, which are expensive and have been proven to have minimal effectiveness and serious side effects. He feels that there is a place for medications of all varieties, but that they should be used only when all other alternatives have been exhausted.

Additionally, Mark maintains a blog for his patients at www.markfosterdo.blogspot.com, and a blog in which he describes his approaches to mental health, www.madinamerica.com. He has written a novel and is currently working on a book about mental health reform.

Dr. Madhavi Patt is a Johns Hopkins trained, board certified internist, with over 10 years of clinical practice experience. Dr. Patt's membership based practice is focused on comprehensive primary and advanced preventive care for adults. The practice size is deliberately limited to a few hundred patients so that each patient receives the time, care, and attention to detail needed to achieve optimum health and well being. Traditional primary care providers are charged with caring for an average of 1500-2500 patients. It is extremely difficult to develop and maintain a strong doctor-patient relationship in this type of practice setting. Dr. Patt practices based on the principle that the most important factor in health care is the patient. She emphasizes mutual accountability to make sure the patient´s goals are met.
Dr. Patt adopted this model so that she could practice medicine the way it should be practiced-- unhurried, compassionately and comprehensively. Her focus is not only to provide state-of-the art care during illness but to prevent illness and improve quality of life .

Unlike "conceirge" practices which do not accept any insurance, Dr. Patt´s membership based practice accepts most insurance plans, including Medicare.

Dr. Patt attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a scholarship for women in science, where she received a bachelor´s degree in Biology. She then attended medical school at Albany Medical College through a combined, accelerated program, graduating in 1996. Prior to her final year in medical school she obtained a Master´s in Public Health from Columbia University. Dr. Patt completed her Internship & Residency at Boston University, 1999, and then went onto a Fellowship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, where she conducted research on chronic disease management improvement and cardiovascular disease prevention through lifestyle measures.

Dr. Patt has extensive practice experience in a wide variety of clinical settings including the Veteran´s hospital, Internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA and Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Urgent care at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Denver Health, and Highlands Ranch. In addition to her clinical experience, Dr. Patt was an advisor for health policy in the United States Senate 2001-2002, a Consultant to HRSA (Health Resources Services Agency), 2002, and to start up health care companies, 2007-2008. She was also the Co-director Quality Improvement for New York City Health & Hospitals Corp, 2003-04.

Dr. Patt is a member of the American College of Physicians.