Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Melody Denham, MD, has more than 20 years of experience in health and wellness. She serves as the medical director at Skin Deep MD in Boulder, Colorado. An accomplished medical professional, she specialized in pain management and anesthesiology throughout her career, and now focuses her work on aesthetics.
Dr. Denham achieved her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989. After graduating, she completed two residencies in anesthesiology, at the UCLA Medical Center and the University of California, Davis. She also completed a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Denham and her team believe every patient deserves a personalized care plan. From anti-aging to hair removal, Dr. Denham oversees all aesthetic procedures at Skin Deep MD to ensure top-quality care. She prioritizes patient needs and goals, listening to every individual before recommending a treatment plan.
Dr. Denham is dedicated to delivering the latest in aesthetic technology in a comfortable, modern office setting. Treatment offerings at Skin Deep MD address a wide scope of cosmetic flaws and leave patients feeling more confident and looking their best.
The saying, “you’re only as old as your spine is healthy,” may not quite ring true until you’ve suffered chronic back pain or a debilitating sports injury. At Rocky Mountain Spine & Sports Medicine in Denver, Colorado, Rock Navarkal, MD, JD, and his experienced team are committed to helping their patients maintain their youthful vigor by providing the highest quality of customized care in spinal health, pain management, sports medicine, and regenerative medicine.
Always on the cutting edge of medical advancements, Dr. Navarkal who is board certified in sports medicine, was among the first physicians to utilize regenerative medicine techniques, including platelet-rich plasma and stem cell therapy. He learned these methods during residency when he trained with team physicians for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates professional sports teams. Since then he has practiced these regenerative medicine procedures on many high-level athletes, including team players with the Denver Broncos.
More recently, Dr. Navarkal trained to use these same regenerative techniques for aesthetic and facial rejuvenation applications, helping patients to look and feel their absolute best.
By offering an integrative, multidisciplinary approach to pain management, the team at Rocky Mountain Spine & Sports Medicine creates a highly personalized treatment plan for each patient. Whether it’s chronic back and neck pain, migraine headaches, or an acute injury from an accident at work, the team at Rocky Mountain Spine & Sports Medicine develops the best treatment for each person.
Aside from medication management, interventional pain and regenerative medicine procedures, Dr. Navarkal and his team provide physical therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy. This team approach to spinal health, pain management, sports medicine, and regenerative medicine helps patients get back to those activities they love as quickly as possible.
Samantha “Sammy” Pushchak, PA, is a board-certified physician assistant serving patients at Summit Primary Care in Denver, Colorado.
Born and raised in Colorado, Sammy is a graduate of Colorado State University in Fort Collins and obtained her Master of Health Science and Physician Assistant Certificate at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
At Summit Primary Care, Sammy feels very passionately that her patients should have a say in their health care plan and be as involved as possible in the decision-making process. She is extremely bubbly and energetic, and she truly loves her job. Sammy believes the best provider-patient relationship revolves around trust and honesty, and she prioritizes creating a strong bond with her patients.
Outside of her medical practice, Sammy enjoys spending time with her family and friends, being outdoors, traveling, cooking, reading, and watching TV shows and movies. She recently got married and has a dog and cat at home.
Dr. Vishal Thakral is double board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine with a subspecialty in Musculoskeletal Sonography. Dr. Thakral specializes in musculoskeletal and orthopedic injuries related to the joints and spine. Dr. Thakral's medical interests include sports medicine utilizing musculoskeletal ultrasound-guided procedures to perform regenerative treatments for all joints including the hand, wrist, pelvis, shoulder, knee, hip, foot, ankle, and spine injuries.
After earning his medical degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Thakral completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. U.S. News ranked John Hopkins as one of the top five hospitals in the nation. Following his residency, Dr. Thakral completed two fellowships focusing on orthobiologics integrating regenerative therapies in treating diverse orthopedic conditions.
Dr. Thakral's mission is to ensure patients are on the correct path of treatment whether that be conservative options first or identifying the correct pain-generating source before needed surgery and the recovery that follows. Part of Dr. Thakral's goal is to help patients understand all the available options for them to be star advocates for themselves and to take control of their health. He also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Western University teaching aspiring physicians about interventional orthopedics.
Keith Cummings, DO, CAQSM is a sports medicine physician specializing in nonsurgical treatment of orthopedic problems. He looks forward to serving the community of Boulder, Colorado, as part of the team at Breakthrough Regenerative Orthopedics.
Dr. Cummings partners with his patients to optimize biomechanics, utilize exercise-based treatments with physical and occupational therapy, and minimize medication use, in addition to performing image-guided procedures when necessary. He has worked with a variety of athletes from all competition levels, including the NBA, Olympic-level snow sports, division-one college athletics, and various high school sports. This experience enables him to provide treatment for active people of all skill levels and help them return to the activities they love.
He joins us after practicing for several years in the Seattle area, where he was voted a top doctor multiple times while working as the first nonsurgical physician at one of the area’s largest orthopedic groups.
Dr. Cummings was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, where he received his BS from Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. He received his doctorate from Western University of Health Sciences in Lebanon, Oregon.
He ventured to Salt Lake City for his residency and fellowship training in both physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R) and primary care sports medicine at the University of Utah. This time allowed him to not only grow in his love for the Mountain West, but also to receive advanced training in both musculoskeletal ultrasound and fluoroscopy for diagnostic and procedural purposes, as well as training in orthobiologic therapies such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
When he is not working, he loves spending time with his amazing wife and enjoying her company. He also enjoys hiking, resistance training, watching movies, and playing the electric guitar.
Dr. Cummings is thrilled to be back in the mountains, exploring all that Colorado has to offer.
She has over 32 years of experience with family medicine. She has worked in Urgent care; serves ages newborn to seniors. Specialties are musculoskeletal problems, pediatrics, adolescent medicine. She has been certified an HIV specialist. She is bilingual in Spanish.
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Colorado Alliance for Health Equity and Practice (CAHEP)
She has over 32 years of experience with family medicine. She has worked in Urgent care; serves ages newborn to seniors. Specialties are musculoskeletal problems, pediatrics, adolescent medicine. She has been certified an HIV specialist. She is bilingual in Spanish.
Practice
Colorado Alliance for Health Equity and Practice (CAHEP)
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