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Dr. Maria T. Gentile

Osteopathic Physician

Dr. Gentile is a board-certified Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Specialist. She dedicated her latter years of study to this profession after osteopathic treatment helped her recover from a serious whiplash injury resulting from a motor vehicle accident in December 1992.

Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Gentile stayed in her home town to complete a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Microbiology. She worked as a microbiology supervisor and breast cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC and completed her Premedical study at Hunter College, also in New York.

Dr. Gentile attended medical school at the University of North Texas Health Science Center/Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine where she remained an extra year to train in and teach OMM as a Predoctoral Teaching Fellow. After medical school, Dr. Gentile completed a Traditional Internship in a Family Practice program at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J. She then attended and graduated from an American Osteopathic Association (A.O.A) accredited Residency in Neuromusculoskeletal and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, N.Y.

While at St. Barnabas, a 466 bed, level 1 trauma center, Dr. Gentile's duties included the evaluation and treatment of newborns in the nursery, mothers before and after delivery, children on the pediatric wards, medical, surgical and trauma patients in the intensive care unit and on the patient floor as well as the operation of 3 outpatient continuing care clinics.

Dr. Gentile is interested in the integration of standard and alternative medical philosophies. She has been certified by the American Board of Holistic Medicine and is a member of the American Holistic Medical Association. With the opening of her practice, Dr. Gentile has fulfilled her dream of practicing Osteopathy in beautiful Colorado.

Lauren J. Ramsay, PA-C

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Physician's Assistant and Office Manager

Lauren brings greater than 20 years of medical experience to our practice, having started her career in healthcare as an EMT/Paramedic in 1980. She returned to college in 1994 to advance her medical knowledge, culminating in her graduation from The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program in 2000. She earned her Masters of Science degree in 2004 with the completion of a randomized trial comparing rates of jaundice in newborns given early, frequent and exclusive breastfeeding to those following standard hospital and home care feeding regimens. Since beginning practice as a PA, Lauren has worked in the hospital setting with newborns and children, and in a children's shelter. She has recently served as a project manager for a large National Cancer Institute funded lung cancer screening trial site at the University of Colorado. In addition to pediatric care, she is interested in an integrative and holistic approach to medicine and hopes to add to the growing body of research in this area.

Peter H. Schuyler

Receptionist and All-around Good Guy

Peter is a Colorado native who is a writer in his spare time. He has written poems, short stories, stage and screen plays and is working on a novel and an opera. He is also a performer, both of opera and classical guitar, and is known for spontaneous eruptions of song from time to time. He is thankful for the amazing amount and diversity of knowledge he has picked up in his time in Dr. Gentile's office.