Dr. Laura Slack

Laura Paige Slack, MD, with Imber Medical

Get to know Dr. Laura Paige Slack, who serves patients in St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Born and raised in Texas, Dr. Slack grew up in the city of Tyler and attended college at UNCW in North Carolina with additional study at Roehampton University of London. She graduated with honors and pursued her medical degree where she was able to participate in medical electives and mission work in China, the United Kingdom, West Indies, and West Africa. After completion of her clinical studies in New York, she moved to Orlando where she completed her fellowship in family medicine and geriatric medicine at Florida Hospital South and Winter Park, respectively.

Thereafter, she attained board certification in both family medicine and geriatric medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM and ABIM) respectively.

As well as certifications in AAPM (American Academy of Procedural Medicine) with advanced training in Aesthetic Medicine and Anti-Aging.

Together with her husband, Doug Klinowski, Dr. Slack opened, Imber Medical, on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

The daughter of an engineer and an artist, Dr. Slack combines precision with an artistic eye. She is passionate about staying up to date with the latest treatments available in order to offer only the best to her clients. She is also committed to providing the most effective, natural, and lasting options for maintaining a youthful appearance and energy.

The mission of Imber Medical is “to spark imagination of the possibilities, improve youthful appearance, and inspire all towards a greater state of health.” Services include, but are not limited to, painless fat reducing laser, master level injectables, medical assisted weight loss, IV infusion therapies, bioidentical hormones, powerful CO2 laser skin & facial resurfacing, PDO thread face-lift, plasma pen non-surgical lid lift, pain free tattoo removal, ultrasound & radio frequency spot fat reduction with skin tightening for body & facial contouring, hair restoration, erectile dysfunction treatments, platelet rich plasma treatments, acne solutions for all ages, pain free laser hair removal, EM Sculpt muscle building, Scar revision treatments, laser treatments for reducing brown (age) spots, rosacea treatments, vein reduction laser treatments, Femilift, Beautifill Laser Assisted Liposuction with fat re-injection for facial contouring, body contouring, breast augmentation, brazilian butt lift and more.

Doug

Born and raised on St. Simons Island, Georgia, Douglas Klinowski began his working career at the age of 15 in a small family owned Italian restaurant. It did not take long for Douglas’s talent for understanding and connecting with people to emerge. Even at a young age, Douglas established a track record of building and leading successful teams. He attended the University of Alabama where he played four years of rugby. During this time, he also competed and placed in the Alabama State Bodybuilding Championship. Douglas graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Healthcare Management from the University of Alabama, School of Business. From there, he moved into management with an international health club chain based in Colorado. He quickly demonstrated not only that he is a successful leader, but that he has a real passion for marketing, sales and hospitality.

After 6 years of turning under-performing health clubs into profitable ones, Douglas was recruited by his father to turn around a struggling portfolio of large assisted living communities in the central part of Florida. This challenge, presented in 2005, intrigued Douglas enough to cause him to relocate to Florida and become a licensed Assisted Living Administrator with an Extended Congregate Care Certificate. He spent the next 9 years turning this troubled portfolio of large, poorly managed assets with damaged reputations into facilities that today are pillars of the communities they serve. Douglas has been able to increase the total revenues by more than 20% while improving the overall profitability by more than 40%.

In an effort to expand the management portion of his business and to help other owner/operators repair their assets and bring them back to greatness, Douglast expanded his business to include innovative services such as due diligence, consulting and contract management. Doug’s team has completed projects from Pensacola to South Florida and Fort Myers to Orlando and Tampa. Today, he is focused on strategic growth by investigating and entering into new building projects, as well as guiding first time senior care investors to help them reach their goals of growing healthy, worry-free senior care portfolios.

As an industry leader, Douglas has spent many years on the Florida Assisted Living Association Board of Directors where he continues to serve on the Executive Committee as the Association’s Vice President. He is the 2014 recipient of the Sid Rosenblatt Excellence in Leadership Award, the most coveted accolade in the Florida Assisted Living Industry.

Douglas has enjoyed donating time to several organizations that raise money in support of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Through this experience, he realized that proportionally little money was provided to research institutions in search of a cure. His belief is simple: without proper funding for research; there may not be an end to this growing epidemic. Armed with this knowledge, he created the Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, a not-for-profit charity dedicated to providing researchers with the funding necessary to work aggressively towards a cure for this debilitating disease. He is responsible for the complete oversight of the charity’s daily operations and provides the team with the tools and vision necessary to help the foundation realize its ambitious goals.

While golf is a hobby, cycling is a passion with Douglas; he enjoys giving back to the community by supporting various charities in cycling events held throughout Florida. In 2012 Douglas met his soul mate, Laura Paige Slack, M.D., a physician specializing in Geriatric Medicine who shares his passion for caring for the elderly. Douglas and Paige married in June 2013 in a castle in Lake Garda, Italy; one of the couple’s favorite vacation spots.