Dialysis
Arturo Dominguez, PA
Bio coming soon.
David Silva, LCSW
Bio coming soon.Despina Hoffman, MD
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Katrina Otten, RDN
Bio coming soon.Michel Zakari, MD
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Raffi Minasian, Medical Director, MD
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Valerie Curtis, RN
Valerie Curtis, RN has lived in Bishop, California for 9 years. While here, she has worked at the Bishop Care Center as a charge/floor nurse, then weekend manager. She moved on to work at Northern Inyo Hospital on the acute/subacute floor, and trained at Toiyabe Indian Health Project as a dialysis nurse. She worked as the nurse at Toiyabe Dialysis for two years before taking a year of travel dialysis nursing assignments. She came back to Bishop and has been manager of the Dialysis Unit since then. Valerie enjoys traveling with friends and family. She enjoys living in Bishop because of the outdoors and likes to hike, kayak, bike, and ski.
Pharmacy
Fred DiRisio, Director
Fred grew up in Brea, California, and graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a B.S. in Biology. From there, Fred graduated from the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy in 1985 and the Butler University in 1991, and is certified in Nuclear Medicine (Radiopharmaceuticals). Fred has been with Toiyabe since 2002. He is married to Michelle, and has two boys, Nathan and Justin. Fred loves hiking, fishing, hunting and listening to contemporary Jazz music.
Gary DiRisio, Pharm D
Gary has been a licensed, registered pharmacist for 32 years. He graduated from pharmacy school with a BS from University of Wyoming, received a doctorate of pharmacy (Pharm D) from Idaho State University, and received an authorized user license for nuclear pharmacy from Purdue/Butler University. He has worked in every aspect of pharmacy (retail, hospital, clinic, mail order, consulting), except manufacturing. Gary has been married for 31 years with two children. He loves to ski, surf, golf, play baseball, basketball, go fishing, hiking, biking (pretty much anything outdoors), and working out and spending time with his family. Although it’s a work in progress, Gary loves to cook (and eat). Gary has worked at Toiyabe since 2011. He enjoys the diversity of the people in our facility, and working with colleagues to improve patient outcomes.
Jeff Tatum, PharmD
Jeff was born and raised in Bishop, and graduated from Bishop Union High School in 2007. He attended Concordia University Irvine and received his B.A. in biology. He then attended University of Southern California (Fight on!) for pharmacy school and received his PharmD in 2017. Jeff’s passion is geriatric care and further enhancing the pharmacy profession at the benefit of public health. Jeff has been married since 2013 and has a two year old boy and a girl on the way, due in August 2019. Jeff loves to hike, fish and watch his favorite teams (Dodgers, Lakers, Raiders, USC). Jeff started at Toiyabe in 2019 and is excited to work at such an innovative healthcare center. He looks forward to helping improve health outcomes of the people in the Owens Valley.
Preventive Medicine
Andrew Hewchuck, DPM
Bio coming soon.
Dee Messih, RDN
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Matthew Larsen, RDN
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Public Health
Marjoree Neer, PHN, FNP
Marjoree Neer, FNP, joined Toiyabe Indian Health Project in August 2011 as the Director of the Toiyabe Public Health Department. The Public Health Department includes the Community Health and Outreach programs, Elders Nutrition and Caregiving, WIC, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. Marjoree graduated from UC Davis and UCLA with Bachelor degrees in Physiology and Nursing. She then went on to get her Master’s degree in Nursing from CSU,Long Beach. She was the lead Nurse Practitioner for the MOMobile Clinic with Stanislaus County prior to moving to the Eastern Sierra where she has lived for 19 years working in both the Mono County Health Department and the Inyo County Health Department. In Inyo County she worked as the Nurse Practitioner for the Family Planning Clinic and oversaw the Maternal-Child Health Program. She has a great interest in supporting families and assisting them to be healthy and resilient. She believes this support both on the individual and community level comes in the form of increasing knowledge, partnerships with families and providers, access to resources and care, and development of policies and systems which meet the needs of families.
Irene Mason, RDN
Bio coming soon.