Varghese Parambi is a Nephrologist in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Parambi is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Acute Kidney Failure, Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), and Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy. Dr. Parambi is currently accepting new patients.

Steven Chrzanowski is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Chrzanowski is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Hypertension, Familial Hypertension, and High Cholesterol.

Anna Earl is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Earl is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Nephrosclerosis, Renovascular Hypertension, Hypothyroidism, and Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.

Thomas Addison is a primary care provider, practicing in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Addison is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Idiopathic Edema, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Trichohepatoenteric Syndrome, and Anemia. Dr. Addison is currently accepting new patients.

Kathleen Blair is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Blair is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Shingles, Diabetic Neuropathy, Obesity in Children, and Urinary Incontinence. Dr. Blair is currently accepting new patients.

Charles Marler is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Marler is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Lung Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and Lung Metastases. Dr. Marler is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Soldyshev is a highly experienced nephrologist who has practiced since 2012. He sees patients at our Nephology Department in the Specialty Center. In 2002, Dr. Soldyshev graduated with his Medical Doctor in Internal Medicine degree from the Vinnitsa National Medical University in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. He completed a short-term fellowship for the International Public Health Summer Institute at the University of Alabama in 2001. Dr. Soldyshev finished his internship specializing in adult infectious diseases at the Vinnitsa Central City Clinical Hospital in 2003. He graduated with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and International Health at the University of Alabama in 2004. Dr. Soldyshev became ECFMG certified by the Accreditation Council for Medical Education in 2006. He completed the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010. Then, he finished his Nephrology Fellowship at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Soldyshev joined the Great Falls Clinic team in 2012. Fun fact about Dr. Soldyshev is he can speak three languages: Ukrainian, English, and Russian. Dr. Soldyshev is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Acute Kidney Failure, and Renovascular Hypertension.

Lily Avgustovskiy, FNP-C, works alongside Dr. Ruslan Soldyshev in nephrology and Dr. Christopher Fukuda in urology. Lily is an experienced nurse practitioner who has treated patients since 2014 in a variety of specialties, but most recently, nephrology. She strives to advocate for her patients and support their needed aid for positive outcomes in treatment. Lily earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at East Tennessee State University in 2012. She graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 2014. Since moving to Great Falls in 2016, she has practiced in different specialties at a local healthcare facility to hone her skills as a nurse practitioner, including the urgent care setting and an employee health clinic, before discovering her passion and accepting a position in nephrology in 2019. Prior to her nurse practitioner career, Lily also worked as a surgical technologist and registered nurse. In her free time, Lily enjoys spending time with family and exploring Montana. She is an avid hockey and football fan. Dr. Avgustovskiy is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy, Acute Kidney Failure, Diabetic Nephropathy, and IgA Nephropathy.

Carey Welsh is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Welsh is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Familial Hypertension, and Hypertension.

Andra Kofahl is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Kofahl is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Peptic Ulcer, Pneumonia, Hemorrhoidectomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Kofahl is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Brett Williams was born and raised in Comanche, Oklahoma, a small town in southern Oklahoma where almost everyone made their living by farming, ranching or in the oil industry. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in l978 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, majoring in Psychology. He graduated from medical school at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in l982 and completed his general surgery residency at Cornell University in 1987 and his cardiovascular and thoracic surgical fellowship at State University of New York in Brooklyn in l990. After graduation, he had multiple opportunities to join practices in large metropolitan areas as well as university settings. However, he was intrigued by the “Last Best Place” and ultimately decided to establish his practice in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery in Great Falls, Montana in September 1990. He has provided continuous coverage in these specialties since that time. During those 28 years, Dr. Williams has championed innovations in surgical technique and technology to be able to provide state of the art care with surgical outcomes that consistently lead the region and the nation. Some of the innovations that were introduced by Dr. Williams to Central Montana include off pump coronary artery bypass grafting procedures, complex mitral valve repair, complex aortic root reconstruction and valve preservation, transmyocardial laser revascularization of the heart, minimally invasive valve surgery, minimally invasive coronary artery revascularization, surgical correction of atrial fibrillation, minimally invasive vascular surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He was one of the first surgeons to provide outpatient treatment with endovascular laser therapy for varicose veins. Dr. Williams is Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Dr. Williams is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Renovascular Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Carotid Artery Disease, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA), Carotid Artery Surgery, and Heart Bypass Surgery.