Dr. Lo is our Medical Director, splitting her time between seeing patients and focusing on healthcare administration. Working closely with our care team of providers and managers, she is helping expand NWPCs vision to provide children with the very best in evidence-based, up-to-date care while staying true to our mission of bringing healing to this community.
Stacey Villanueva, Psy.D., is director of our integrated Behavioral Health Therapy team. Through a partnership with Seattle Childrens Hospital, Stacey heads up clinical training at Northwest Pediatric Center, providing the best evidence-based services for our community.
For more than 20 years, Lisa has helped our office grow in capacity and in the resources we can offer our community. Lisa handles the enormous task of overseeing the general operations of our five clinics. She loves working out, golfing and spending time with her friends and family.
Tara joined our nursing staff in 1999 and has supported our providers and patients through her dedicated, caring approach. Shes now part of our leadership team as the lead for our nursing staff. Tara loves the Pacific Northwest and enjoys hiking, biking and snowshoeing. Her greatest love, however, is spending time with her family
Lisa joined us in 1998 and oversees our billing, referrals, reception, and scheduling staff. She loves traveling, exploring the outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, working with wood and spending time with her family and friends.
Securing a timely evaluation for children with a potential diagnosis of autism-spectrum disorder is challenging and, at times, overwhelming. Wait lists for these evaluations are long and families must prepare and provide enormous amounts of information.
SMART (School Medical Autism Review Team), part of the Lewis County Autism Coalition, was launched to address this very issue. SMART, comprising professionals from various fields, including medical, early intervention, school, occupational therapy (OT), and speech, meets monthly at Northwest Pediatric Center in Centralia.
When your child is referred to SMART, the team evaluates information from all areas of your childs experience, including school, daycare, early intervention, speech, OT, and the patients medical provider. The team, which includes a neurodevelopmentalist, then evaluates the information and makes recommendations about the best next steps to support you and your childs success in school and life. If a child needs further evaluation for possible autism-spectrum disorder, SMARTs neurodevelopmentalist will meet with that child in a timely manner, avoiding the usually long autism-evaluation wait times.