Byrd joins Florida Senior Consulting as regional manager

Florida Senior Consulting welcomes Rachel Byrd, CDP, to its team as regional manager of Lee and Collier counties. A senior advocacy and consulting organization, Florida Senior Consulting partners with older adults and their families to help them navigate the next stage of their lives.

As regional manager, Byrd is focused on building relationships with seniors and their families and providing personalized guidance to help them find the best care and living options tailored to meet their needs.

Byrd has a decade of experience in senior living and is the former director of sales and marketing at The Preserve in Fort Myers, where she spent over four years opening the community. Her other roles included director of life enrichment, life enrichment assistant, therapeutic recreation lead, dietary aide and a marketing internship.

Byrd earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Florida Gulf Coast University and her master’s degree in gerontology from the University of South Florida. She is a certified Advanced Activity Professional, a CORE certified assisted living administrator and a Certified Dementia Practitioner. Byrd is a former board member of CAMEO of Lee County.

With a growing Florida presence currently serving Sarasota, Seminole, Pinellas, Orange, Manatee, Lee, Hillsborough, DeSoto, Charlotte and Collier counties, Florida Senior Consulting offers expertise in family assistance, case management, education, selection and placement and ongoing advocacy ensures each senior’s journey is met with the highest level of care and personal attention.

To learn more, visit FloridaSeniorConsulting.com, contact info@floridaseniorconsulting.com or call 800-969-7176.

Spinelli joins Precision Healthcare Specialists as breast surgical oncology specialist

Dr. Natalia Spinelli, a fellowship-trained breast surgeon who is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery and Society of Surgical Oncology, has joined Precision Healthcare Specialists, a Southwest Florida multi-specialty physician group.

Fluent in English and Spanish, Spinelli focuses on patients with breast cancer and other breast diseases. Her areas of expertise include treatment of benign and malignant disorders of the breast, high-risk breast cancer screening and prevention, and improvements in surgical techniques and management.

Spinelli, licensed to practice in both Florida and Texas, is a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, American Society of Breast Surgeons and American College of Surgeons.

Prior to joining Precision Healthcare Specialists, Spinelli was a breast surgical oncologist for a Fort Myers-based independent physician group with locations across three states. She also has served as an assistant professor of surgical oncology in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

Spinelli earned a bachelor of science degree in molecular biology and microbiology from the University of Central Florida, graduating magna cum laude. She then completed a doctor of medicine degree with the highest honors from the University of South Florida Health’s Morsani College of Medicine. For her postgraduate training, Spinelli completed her clinical residency in general surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a clinical fellowship in breast surgical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Spinelli treats patients at Precision Healthcare Specialists’ office, 13813 Metro Parkway, Suite C, in Fort Myers. For more information, please visit PHSpecialists.com.