CHARLES A EVANS M D - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Family Nurse Practitioner
Angie is a Family Nurse Practitioner certified by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She loves to spend time with family and friends at the lake. She has been working as a nurse in Lufkin for over 23 years building a foundation of knowledge and experience in numerous healthcare areas. Her experience includes medical-surgical nursing, post-anesthesia care, critical care, geriatrics, obstetrics, women's health, administrative nursing, and family medicine. She served as a member of CHI St. Luke's Cancer Committee for almost nine years. She also served as a member of CHI St. Luke's Ethics Committee for several years and as Ethics Chair for two years. In 2015, Angie received the Angelina County Chamber of Commerce Salute to Health Care - Nurse of the Year Award. She is a member of Texas Nurse Practitioners (TNP) and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). As a nurse practitioner, she hopes to use the knowledge, skills, and experience gained in her career to provide holistic care to patients with a focus on lifestyle and prevention.
Job Titles:
- Technician
- LVN and Procedural Technician
Brittney Williams is our LVN and Procedural Technician
Job Titles:
- Certified Personal Trainer
- CPT, ACLM and HEALTH COACH
Clay Hall is a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise (ACE), a lifestyle educator through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and he also holds various certifications in Krav Maga and with American Society of Karate (3rd black belt instructor rank). He has been employed with Dr. Evans' office since 2015 in various positions - you have probably seen him everywhere around the office. He is a lifelong fitness enthusiast and has been training/coaching people for well over 15 years.
Dr. Charles Alexander Evans began his career in Canada as an academic physiologist (MSc., PhD), authoring 16 publications. He subsequently graduated from medical school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and completed an internship at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1985.
He has been a general/family practitioner since that time, moving to the United States in 1993 with five children. He started a practice in Beaumont, looking for better opportunities for his family in Texas. Eventually, he owned and managed a 105-employee multi-specialty practice there.
Wanting to learn more about integrative medicine and aesthetics, he sold his Beaumont practice in 2003 and moved to Lufkin, Texas, to set up a practice that combined evidence based integrative and mainstream medicine. Since then, he has become board certified in aesthetics (2010). Most recently, he became board certified in lifestyle medicine (2017).
He is the owner, CEO and physician at The Institute for Lifestyle, Preventive and Family Medicine. Wanting to be on the frontline with the new paradigm of medical delivery, he has spent countless hours continuing his education as a Fellow of A4M (The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) and MMI (Metabolic Medical Institute), which is in partnership with George Washington University's Department of Integrative medicine. He is presently a Diplomat of The American Association of Integrative Medicine and American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
His mission at The Institute is to educate and help his patients improve their quality of life through wellness programs and lifestyle changes using all of the instruments that he has in his medical bag of acquired knowledge. Dr. Evans' pet phrase is, "I don't want to put a band aid on a patient's medical condition; I want to find out what is causing the problem and fix that!"
Dr. Evans and his wife, Tracy, live in East Texas with their English Golden Retriever (Bodhi), a Siberian Husky (Mia) and a Maltipoo (Rosci). Between the two, they have three grown children who live all over North America.
Andrea Dane Smith, or Drea for short, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 1st, 1992. She says that it has been very interesting having a birthday on April Fool's Day. In 2006, at the age of 14, she moved to Texas with her three brothers and two sisters. One of her brothers, Isaac, is her twin! Drea currently lives in Groveton with her husband, DJ, and their adorable family of cats and ferrets.
Drea finds it pleasurable working at the office of Dr. Charles Evans. She completed the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies Program through the American College of Preventive Medicine. Drea loves every moment being a lifestyle educator. Drea has a bubbly personality, saying that, "I'd rather be happy than anything else. I do my best to be so every day!" Growing up, Drea has always felt a drive to help others. She is happy to work in an environment where she can be a part of helping change someone's life for the better.
Sapphira Clark is a Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) at the Institute. With over fifteen years of experience in the medical field, starting her career as an LVN, she is proud of her transition to lifestyle medicine and enjoys serving her patients. Listening to and addressing their needs is her top priority. Her dedication to quality care is a result of her commitment to her family. Sapphira is a wife and the mother of three beautiful children who keep her on her toes. When she isn't busy at the clinic, she loves spending time with her family and friends.
Sophie Hill is a Nurse Practitioner who grew up in the Diboll/Lufkin area. She is a wife and the mother of two children. When she isn't busy at the clinic, she loves traveling and spending time with family and friends. She loves her community and feels blessed for the opportunity to provide healthcare in this region. She has been a nurse since 1997. While working full-time, she continued her education to become a Family Nurse Practitioner, loving the opportunities that has brought. She says, "I love my patients and enjoy learning from them as much as I enjoy helping them. I look forward to meeting new faces while continuing with ongoing patient relationships."
Job Titles:
- Director of Lifestyle Education, ACLM
- Director of the Lifestyle Program at the Institute
Tracy is the director of the Lifestyle Program at the Institute and feels very fortunate to have Dr. Evans as her husband. She has earned several certifications including the Harvard Medical School's American College of Lifestyle Medicine's certification as a Lifestyle Educator. Her role is to integrate the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine by inspiring patients to move toward better health through nutrition, exercise, improved sleep and better stress resilience so that they can experience a better quality of life. Tracy says,
"When I was in my 30s, I was not healthy. I was carrying around too much body fat - about 85 pounds. I have a very small frame, and I was wearing a size 24. I had a business, a teenager, and a mother with chronic illnesses that I was caring for. During a visit to my doctor, I was told I may have a fatty liver and needed to have an uncomfortable test run at the hospital. There, they stuck a very long needle into my side and pulled out a section of my liver, and they let me look at it. I could see the fat in the sample. Soon afterward, my mother passed away from heart disease associated with obesity. That's when I had a wake-up call that I needed to change my lifestyle.
Today, in my early 60s, I have lost those 85 pounds. I feel so much better that I forget at times that I'm not still in my 30s. In 2013, I decided to make a career change and started my certifications as a Lifestyle Educator; I wanted to help people move through the process of making the lifestyle changes that I made, but too quickly, in a more evidence-based and healthy way.
As a side note, I know that my mother, had she been able to go through a program like the one we offer at The Institute, she would have been with me for many more years.
Tracy has been involved in the Lifestyle Program for several years and currently serves as its director. She enjoys interacting with our Lifestyle patients, especially when they come in to say that they feel better and have more energy than when they started the program. The smiles on their faces are very rewarding.