Laura Preece, DO, FACOI, FACP

Dr. Laura Preece is a graduate of Rutgers University with a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences where she also competed as a Division 1 gymnast. She completed her medical school training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), and afterwards was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army by way of a Health Professionals Scholarship. She went on to complete her internship and residency at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Washington. Her military obligation was served in Seoul, Korea where she attained the rank of Major and ultimately at William Beaumont Army Medical Center here in El Paso.

Following her completion of military service, she worked as Assistant Professor and Clerkship Director at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso. Most recently she was the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mountainview Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico for six years. In 2020, Dr. Preece was named the New Mexico Chapter of the American College of Physicians Early Career Physician Leader of the Year. Her clinical interests are in outpatient medicine where she enjoys seeing complex internal medicine patients. She is triple board certified in Internal Medicine (ABIM), Obesity Medicine (ABOM), and Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM).


Kuljot Bansi, MD, Associate Program Director

Kuljot S. Bansi is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine. He is from Chicago, Illinois, having completed his undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a minor in chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Bansi graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He is one of our very own, having completed his IM residency at this program and is proudly serving as both an Associate Program Director and Hospitalist at Las Palmas Del Sol Medical Center. His current areas of interest include critical care and point of care ultrasound. Dr. Bansi is a die-hard Chicago Bears and Bulls fan. During his free time, he enjoys hooping, spending time traveling with his fiancée and pup and playing video games. He is currently playing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kindgom and Baldur’s Gate 3.