Physicians

Dr. Howard G. Wold has been serving the local area for 20 years. Dr. Wold received an undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and then graduated from the West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Wold trained at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, completing an Internal Medicine Residency, and a Hematology - Oncology fellowship. He remained in San Francisco and became Chief of Hematology - Oncology at LAMC and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco before moving to Alexandria in January of 1989.

Dr. Wold is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Louisiana and Rapides Parish Medical Societies, American Medical Association, American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Hematology. He serves as the chairman of the Cancer Committee and Chairman of the Ethics Committee at Rapides Regional Medical Center. He has served as Medical Director for several hospice agencies. Since 2003 he has been recognized as one of "America's Top Physicians" by a national peer organization. Dr. Wold is married and has two adult children and five grandchildren. He is an active member of Calvary Baptist Church.

Dr. Wold states, "What we try to provide is compassionate, state of the art therapy in a supportive environment. We want to encourage our patients and their caregivers emotionally and spiritually. We renovated and expanded our chemotherapy administration area to provide a soothing and relaxing atmosphere."

Dr. Christine Ince was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in California and spent 18 years in Houston prior to moving to Alexandria, Louisiana in 2000. She received her medical degree from Howard University in Washington DC and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Texas in Houston, Texas. Dr. Ince went on to complete her fellowship in medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1988 and has been a practicing Oncologist since then. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. In 1997 she received her masters of science in health care administration and was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Ince holds memberships in several professional medical societies. She is an associate medical director for a local hospice and is on the Sickle Cell Foundation board. Dr. Ince has a special interest in medical research and is the local principal investigator for the Sarah Cannon Research Institute. She is a strong advocate of healthy lifestyle as a way of disease prevention and gives health education lectures in the community. Dr. Ince is married with two daughters.

"I have gained a special appreciation for cancer patients and their families," Dr. Ince said as she explained the importance of her multidisciplinary approach to care. "Family support, faith and state of the art facilities play an important role in the healing process. Faith does have a lot to do with the healing of our patients, not just cancer patients, but patients in general."

Dr. Bassam Abi-Rached received his Medical Degree in 1988 from the Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences. He did his postdoctoral training in Internal Medicine at the State University of New York, and a Clinical Fellowship in Hematology / Oncology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. Dr. Abi-Rached is board certified in Hematology, Oncology and Internal Medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Oncology, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Louisiana Oncology Society, and the Rapides Parish Medical Society. He is married and has two children.