Compare and Contrast
| Specialty/Experience | SuperTrack | Anwar |
|---|---|---|
| Family Practice | + | |
| Urgent Care | + | |
| Emergency Care | + | |
| Internal Medicine | + | + |
| Hematology | + | |
| Oncology | + | |
| Skin Care | + |
Family Practice: Provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. (Wikipedia)
Internal Medicine: Medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases in adults.
Hematology: Study and treatment of blood diseases.
Oncology: Study and treatment of cancers. Dr. Lary previously focused on breast cancer.
Dr. Sean Bozorgzadeh (SuperTrack) was previously the Medical Director at the Emergency Department of Envision Healthcare from 2009 to 2018, and has also served as Chief of Medical Staff, Peace Health United General Medical Center in Sedro Woolley. He specializes in family and emergency medicine, with over twenty years of experience. His medical degree is from UBC.
Dr. Mae Lary (SuperTrack) practices as an Internist/Hematologist and previously as Hematologist/Oncologist at Southern Illinois Hematology/Oncology. Her medical degree is from the University of South Florida, and she was a Clinical Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Kelly Evans (SuperTrack) is a family medicine primary care provider with 29 years of experience, previously working in that capacity at Peace Health. Her medical degree is also from UBC.
Dr. John Anwar is an Internist and Assistant Professor at Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix, and is also the medical director at St. Vincent de Paul’s Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic, also in Phoenix. For context, there are 485 Assistant Professors listed on the Creighton University School of Medicine faculty page. His medical degree is from Ross University in Barbados. As an Internist, Dr. Anwar cannot treat patients under 18.
Given the clear and compelling differences in capabilities, expertise, and experience, it's absolutely baffling that anyone could consider Dr. Anwar to be a viable alternative to SuperTrack.
Dr. Anwar offers services through his company JR Healthcare Consultants.
It appears that the "consultants" are just him:
According to his website, pulled on May 18, he is scheduling visits either:
or
Despite claiming to be already working with Deb Shields, there is no mention of her on his web site.
Will Dr. Anwar actually be here if he gets the clinic contract? According to the April meeting minutes, "Noel asked Dr. Anwar if he was living in Point Roberts to which he said yes, he is here full time but commutes to Phoenix. She then asked how many days he would be at the clinic to which Dr. Anwar responded that if the commission were to consider him, he would provide the details in the proposal of everyone that is in the clinic." Note that Dr. Anwar is still listed as an assistant professor at Creighton in Phoenix and as the medical director of a clinic there. The district cannot compel Anwar to be present here.
If Anwar wins the contract, will Shields be the primary provider? The district cannot legally dictate who the contractor staffs the clinic with or interfere with personnel matters. Dr. Anwar would have sole authority over staffing.
Since publishing our original story, we have added an update to the timeline. Dr. Anwar's presentation at the April meeting cited two PAs: Deb Shields and Jessica Vander Wilp, who currently practices in Phoenix. Falk and Anwar started communicating at the end of October; Vander Wilp obtained her license to practice in Washington State in December. This seems like more indication that Falk has made promises to Anwar that the board will replace SuperTrack with him.
Sara Oggel has not fully complied with our public records requests. The first was due May 1. After she didn't comply, we gave her a second chance with a due date of May 7.
Stephen Falk has not resigned or indicated that he plans to. He still maintains that he has done nothing wrong and still claims that he has not read our analysis of the records he provided in response to our first request. And finally, he has also not indicated that he intends to allow SuperTrack's contract to renew.
Sometimes, in Point Roberts, people assume that we should be loyal to our friends rather than to principles of fairness and ethics, and they may assume that we are going after Deb and Stephen out of malice. We actually bear no malice toward either. This is not personal. This is about trying to correct and prevent a deep injustice to Drs. Sean, Evans, and Lary that would also severely harm the quality of services to the community. In short, Stephen is trying to direct public tax money to Deb and cheat the community out of quality health care. We can't sit on the sidelines and watch that happen.
Information about the doctors came from public sources including LinkedIn and WebMD, and web sites for SuperTrack, Creighton University, and Dr. Anwar.
