Professional Staff

Sam Castellani, MD, Medical Director

Dr. Castellani obtained his Board Certification in Psychiatry and Neurology in 1978. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1965, and Wayne State Medical School in 1969. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at Duke University in 1975.

He has held several leadership and academic positions, including attaining Full Professorship with tenure at the University of Kansas, Wichita in 1986, and serving as Medical Director of Tennessee Christian Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. He has been in private practice of General Psychiatry from 1989 to the present. He has special training in decompression treatment of spinal disease and Neurology.

Dr. Castellani’s major interest is the profound interrelationship between physical and mental disorders, body and mind, and their underlying biochemical mechanisms.


Letita “Tish” Wright, PT received her Bachelor of Physical Therapy from Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
She brings over 4 decades of physical therapy experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings to the Spina Health Center. In addition to patient treatment, Ms. Wright served in both administrative and consulting capacities within the physical therapy field.
Her long-standing reputation within our region for quality physical therapy care and her expansive expertise in diagnostics and treatment greatly enhances the positive outcomes of the Accu-SPINA IDD Therapy® program.

Janice D. Fansler, LPTA, has been in the Physical Therapy field for over 20 years. She earned both a bachelor degree in secondary education and an associates degree in Allied Health and is a Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant. Working in inpatient, outpatient, and skilled nursing facilities, Ms. Fansler has extensive expertise in neurological, orthopedic, geriatric and head trauma injuries, as well as back and neck cases.
Ms. Fansler works closely with the Spina Health Center patients on the day-to-day treatment while each is in the program.