Maui Medical Group adds five health care practitioners to staff | News, Sports, Jobs

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Maui Medical Group announced last month that it has hired five new health care practitioners for its Maui offices.

They join more than 70 health care practitioners at Maui Medical Group, one of the county’s largest and oldest multi-specialty health care providers, formed in 1961, according to a news release.

The new doctors and physician assistants are:

Dr. Derek Illastron, who specializes in internal medicine. He has a medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Portsmouth, Dominica, and obtained his postdoctoral training at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Newark Medical School in Newark, N.J. Prior to joining Maui Medical Group, he was most recently at Cambridge Health Alliance Community Health Clinic in Everett and Revere, Mass. Illastron has been assigned to the Pukalani and Wailuku clinics.

Dr. Heather Bejenaru, who specializes in family practice. She has a medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed her residency

training at the San Jose-O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program, the only family medicine

residency affiliated with the Stanford University School of Medicine. She has previously worked at various clinics on Maui, including Kaiser Permanente’s Kihei Clinic, Upcountry Medical Clinic, Doctors on Call and Wailea Medical Center & Urgent Care. She has been assigned to Maui Medical Group’s Kihei clinic.

Dr. Shannon Evans, who specializes in family practice. She has a medical degree in osteopathy from Kansas City

University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Mo., and served her residency at the University of Wyoming Family Medicine at Cheyenne. Prior to joining Maui Medical Group, she worked as a family medicine physician at the Sublette County Rural Healthcare District in Marbleton, Wyo. She has been assigned to the Wailuku clinic.

Rey Lalwani, a physician assistant who specializes in family practice. She received her bachelor’s degree from Pace University in New York and her master’s

degree in physician assistant studies from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at Montgomery Family Medicine and at Metropolitan NeuroEar Group, both in Maryland. She has been assigned to the Wailuku clinic.

Maxi Lohrengel-West, a physician assistant who specializes in internal medicine. She attended Humboldt University Berlin Medical School in Berlin, Germany, and graduated from MEDEX Northwest, the University of Washington School of Medicine’s physician assistant program. She obtained her master’s degree in physician assistant studies at the University of Nebraska. She works out of the Kahului and Kihei clinics.

Maui Medical Group has five clinics on Maui, in Wailuku, Lahaina, Pukalani, Kihei and Kahului, its newest clinic.

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