Meet the Staff

Our office manager, Mrs. Tiffany Aviles, or better known as just 'Tiffer' is a kind, knowledgeable, and caring lady who is responsible for keeping our office running smoothly and overseeing that both patients and staff have full support in all their needs. A graduate of Kaplan University in 2009, her clinical experience includes two years of working in the field of pulmonology, prior to joining her first love in the field of obstetrics and Gynecology, which she has now worked in for the past nine years. Tiffers feels very fortunate that her career path has led her to work in an environment that both providers and staff genuinely care about the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of every patient without any reservation or discrimination. She and Dr. Firouzbakht now have worked together for nearly ten years.

Tiffers was born in Fort Worth, but raised in Phoenix, Arizona with her mother and sister, but as she has always considered Fort Worth her home, she returned for her training and has remained here raising her family here in Fort Worth, Texas. She is married to Freddy with three Children, her eldest Isaiah, a junior in high school, and her two beautiful daughters Anahi and Lily who are her joy. She loves spending time with her family including her Yorkie 'Jr Sam'. She enjoys reading novels, watching movies, and traveling.

She welcomes you to our small practice and her great team of staff.

Ms. Lily Saucedo, Our avid surgical Coordinator, who wears many other hats and completes many other miscellaneous tasks. She is a Nationally recognized certified Medical Assistant. She has been in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology for over ten years. As well in BioTe for ten years. She has vast experience and has worked for larger institutions such as Harris Methodist Center in Downtown Fort Worth, as she had just graduated from college, and there she initiated her experience in the field of women's healthcare.

Lily is extremely talented and her strength is in having skill to multi-task and complete all tasks with highest quality.

Lily is fluent in English and Spanish. She is happily married to her spouse, Tomas and their three beautiful children. She loves to spend time with her family as much as possible. She enjoys shopping, dancing and having family gatherings and cook outs.

Ms. Estella Rivera, serves as the primary Medical Assistant to Dr. Firouzbakht. Estella is our newest member of our office team, but with her welcoming approach to each patient and with her quick adaptation to the way Dr. Firouzbakht practices, no one can guess she has only been part of the team for the last few months. Estella is another Nationally registered certified medical assistant, who graduated from Everest College in 2018 obtaining her Medical Assistant degree.

Her previous experience has been in the field of internal medicine. This past experience has afforded Estella skills to provide better primary care treatments to our patients. Estella's ability to make patients feel welcomed and obtain critical information about their medical background is second to none.

Estela has been married to her husband for ten years and they have three children together. On her spare time, she likes to have family gathered for Cook outs and spending quality time with each other. She also likes to be an involved parent with her daughter's school and gymnastics and her son's playing soccer.

Patients are like family in our office. Everyone always comments on how comfortable they feel here. I always say that if we could put all our patients in one room, we would all know each other like a big happy family.'

Shawna Ortega graduated top ten of her class from Kaplan University in Nashville, Tennessee. She obtained her Medical Assistant Certificate in May of 2008 when she was only 20 years old. When she completed her education she moved back home to Fort Worth, Texas, where she started and continued a career in the field of obgyn caring for ladies of all ages, and helping so many women through the journey of their pregnancy from trying to conceive, to prenatal care and postnatal care. She has over thirteen years of experience in this field and what makes her unique is her ability to adapt to all the providers she has worked with.

Shawna has been working alongside of Dr. Firouzbakht since January of 2014, where she has now accomplished a deeper understanding of hormone replacement therapy and recently has acquired certification in BioTe. Given her long tenure with Dr. Firouzbakht she has adapted and learned Dr. Firouzbakht's genuine way of caring for patients with careful attention to providing individualized, loving and precise care for each of every woman, no matter their status or background. Currently, she is the lead Medical Assistant and primarily helps Maggie, our wonderful certified Nurse Practitioner.

Shawna is happily married to her husband of Eleven years, Fabian, and they have two handsome boys together, Fabian and Sebastian. As a family they enjoy soccer, football, crafting, traveling together. Shawna's particular love for animals shines through her love to foster dogs from shelter and provide them with a FURever HOME.

Ms. Brandi Holcombe, Our Front Desk executive has joined our team recently, but her enthusiasm and love for what she does on daily basis with greeting our patients and delivering exceptional customer service, it feels like she has been part of our team since for much longer.

Brandi started out in the medical field in 1998 as a dark room technician, and she has worked her way up to an executive and professional front desk officer. Her previous experiences in the front desk area includes her work in the fields of Radiology, adult and Pediatrics Urology, Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology specialty, as well as family practice and psychology.

Her warm personality has helped her be part of the team that makes our small office different and unique. She loves to help patients from making sure they are aware of their upcoming appointments, to re arranging appointments to accommodate patients, to answering every call and caring for the needs of each individual patient, her work never stops, but with her smiling face you will never guess the mountain of work she faces on daily basis.

Brandi is also happily married to her husband, Brandon and has two sons, Khristopher and Kaiden. Her sons are very active in sports and Brandi loves to spend time watching and encouraging them. She and her family also love to attend Drag Races.

Ms. Terry Paschal, LVN since 1975 is the soul of our office. Better known as 'Mama Terry' she has been part of the building that our practice is currently at for the last twenty-four years. She has been in the field of obgyn since 1975, with 46 years of experience in both inpatient and office setting. Currently she is completing her duties as the lead medical assistant to Dr. Matthews, but is planning to join our team fully in January of 2022 when Dr. Matthews is planning to retire.

Ms. Terry's abundant experience in the women's healthcare is truly beyond compare. She takes care of each patient as she would take care of her own family member. She has a kind heart and a true Texan hospitality.

Ms. Terry has been married to her husband since October of 1982 and they live happily in Granbury Texas. She is a proud 'Grammy' to her three granddaughters and one grandson and most recently her two great grandsons.