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Meet our team

President and CEO

Marc Ibanez, MD

Dr. Ibanez has been in medicine since 2000, and those years have brought a wide range of experience. Whether as a hospitalist, primary care physician, nursing home doc, hospice doctor, medspa provider, or occupational medicine physician he has seen it all. He has lived in Corpus Christi for 15 years. He is happily married with 8 children, 6 of whom are still home and attending Flour Bluff.


Mark Coates, PA - C

Mr. Coates started his medical career as an EMT-Basic, eventually transitioning to EMT-Paramedic through the Allied Health Program at Nicholls State University in South Louisiana where he also participated in Collegiate Sports.  Following graduation, he worked in the  metropolitan area of New Orleans as a Paramedic for about three years.  He was then accepted to the University of Alabama at Birmingham's PA program where he earned his Bachelor's of Science.  After Practicing one year in the Alabama area in Neurosurgery, he transferred to the Corpus Christi area  in 2005 where he has continued his medical career.  He has a broad scope of practice in multiple fields of medicine including Neurosurgery, Orthopedic spine surgery, Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine.  He is happily married with 2 children.

Darlene Akers, LVN

COO



Melissa Rock, FNP

Graduated Nursing School with a BSN, 1996 from East Carolina University, NC Graduated with my MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, 2015 from Walden University. I have been in the medical field for 28 years.  I have worked in many settings ranging from critical care to primary care.   


Stephanie Mascorro, FNP


Krisha Tinney, FNP

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