TELLURIDE MED CENTER: TO YOUR HEALTH, STROKES

19 Feb TELLURIDE MED CENTER: TO YOUR HEALTH, STROKES

Dr. Koelliker, Medical Director of Emergency Services at the Telluride Medical Center, explains why a stroke or heart attack is really a brain attack and the tell-tale signs of an emergency. Watch the video and then for more info visit www.stroke.org.

BIO: Dr. Diana Koelliker was Medical Director for Aircare Aeromedical Transport for four years and and worked at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, NM for five years. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University in 1992., and  then went to medical school and graduated with honors from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA.  Dr. Koelliker met her husband, Paul Koelliker, MD, her first year of med school and they were married her senior year.  She then moved to Jackson, Mississippi where she completed a 4 yr residency in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Koelliker is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. She and her husband moved to Farmington, NM after their residencies.  They worked as Emergency physicians at San Juan Regional Medical Center for 6 years. Dr. Koelliker was the medical director for AirCare aeromedical transport while in Farmington.  In 2006, she and her husband moved their family to Telluride full-time and both began working solely at TMC.  Dr. Koelliker  loves her work in the Emergency Department and is currently the medical director for the ER.  She has continued to enjoy her work with prehospital providers and has been the medical director for Telluride EMS since 2007.  She balances her time spending time with her family, skiing, jogging, playing softball and mountain biking.