Lauren joins Mid-South Vascular Physicians with 5 years of interventional radiology experience, 11 years of ICU experience, and over 2 years of Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner experience. She cares deeply about delivering excellent patient care and working hard to salvage limbs as she values the ability to improve each patient’s quality of life. She believes the core of a great practitioner involves listening intently to your patients and her convictions regarding patient care has resulted in her being ranked in the 99th percentile on patient satisfaction.

Lauren D. Albertine is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended the University of Memphis Loewenberg School of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and went on to spend 11 years practicing in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at the Regional One Medical Center, affectionately known as “The Med” by fellow Memphians. During her time at The Med, she developed sedation protocols, precepted numerous new graduate nurses, and was extensively involved in unit education. She also worked as a nurse in an interventional radiology clinic and was a clinical preceptor for Baptist College of Health Sciences Nursing Program for 2 years.

Lauren graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2019 from The University of South Alabama at the top of her class with a Master of Science in Nursing. Her specialty area of focus is primary care adult gerontology. She has spent the last two and a half years practicing internal medicine caring for individuals with varying co-morbidities.

Lauren is married with two children and enjoys spending time with her family and friends. When not at work, Lauren enjoys running and going on hikes with her family and watching her boys play all of the sports they love.

Dr. Salazar grew up in Lima, Peru until age 10 when his family moved to Memphis, TN. He is a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, both of which are in Memphis. He completed his internship at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH before returning to Memphis to complete his Diagnostic Radiology residency followed by a Vascular and Interventional Radiology fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Dr. Salazar subsequently joined the UTHSC staff full time where he practiced Vascular and Interventional Radiology for 14 years and was instrumental, along with Dr. Joshi, in establishing a Pediatric Vascular and Interventional program at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital before deciding to take his skills full time to the outpatient setting where he has been practicing since 2008. Dr. Salazar is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. He is married with three children.

His expertise includes: Endovascular treatment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) for treatment of chronic limb ischemia as well as wound and limb salvage, venous insufficiency and varicose vein treatment (Laser or RF ablation, sclerotherapy, embolization), uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), dialysis access and maintenance (including percutaneous AV access creation), venous access (portacath, permacath, PICC)

Dr. Joshi grew up in Mumbai, India where he completed medical school at D.Y. Patil Medical College in Kolphar, India. He went on to finish a Diagnostic Radiology residency at Lokmanya Tilak Medical College in Mumbai, India. Dr. Joshi completed a Pediatric Radiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Following this he arrived in Memphis and completed a Vascular and Interventional Radiology fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Following the completion of his fellowship, Dr. Joshi joined the UTHSC staff full time where he practiced Vascular and Interventional Radiology and served as the fellowship program director.

Dr. Joshi was instrumental, along with Dr. Salazar, in establishing a Pediatric Vascular and Interventional program at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital before deciding to take his skills full time to the outpatient setting where he has been practicing since 2008. Dr. Joshi is married with one son.

‍His expertise includes: Endovascular treatment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) for treatment of chronic limb ischemia as well as wound and limb salvage, venous insufficiency and varicose vein treatment (Laser or RF ablation, sclerotherapy, embolization), uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), dialysis access and maintenance (including percutaneous AV access creation), venous access (portacath, permacath, PICC)