Dr. Albano is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) with a Certificate of Additional Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine. Dr. Albano is an alumnus of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine where he earned his medical degree. Following medical school, he completed a one-year rotating internship at Southampton Hospital on Long Island and a Family Medicine residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. During his final year of residency, Dr. Albano served as a chief resident. After residency, he completed a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he worked closely with the Philadelphia Phillies organization under the direction of the physicians and surgeons of the Rothman Institute. Upon completing fellowship, Dr. Albano joined the Rothman Institute practicing Primary Care Sports Medicine before relocating to Greenville as a member of the Prisma Health Department of Family Medicine and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville. Dr. Albano also has an MBA from Auburn University in Alabama. Currently, Dr. Albano serves as the Vice Chair of Quality and Medical Staff Affairs for the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Albano enjoys spending his leisure time in the company of his family and friends. 

Dr. Baird was raised in southeast Tennessee before attending DePauw University (central Indiana), where he majored in Geology. He attended medical school at Dartmouth Medical School and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Virginia where he served as chief resident. He completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Arizona while acting as a clinical instructor of Emergency Medicine. Before moving to Greenville, he worked as a community Emergency Physician for a couple of years in central Virginia while his wife, Sara, finished her residency.

As a high school and college athlete, Matt developed a deep passion for sports, and has been fortunate to find a way to combine that with his love for medicine and service. Since 2011, he has served Prisma Health in a dual role: as a part-time Emergency Medicine attending, and as a Sports Medicine Physician under the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas. He is the team physician for several local high schools, and assists with coverage for North Greenville University, the Greenville Drive, and multiple regional, national, and international athletic events throughout the year. His academic interests include acute management of musculoskeletal injuries, concussion management, mass event coverage, and graduate medical education.

He and Sara have a young daughter and a baby on the way. They enjoy anything and everything sports/outdoors, travel and food.

Greetings everyone! I am Stephen Carek, one of the core faculty members at the Center for Family Medicine. Currently I serve as the Medical Director for the Center for Family Medicine but also oversee several components of the residency curriculum, including Quality Improvement, Lifestyle Medicine, and the Sports Medicine experience.  I am originally from Charleston but fell in love with the upstate of South Carolina when I attended Clemson University for my undergraduate studies. After college, I attended MUSC for medical school and completed my Family Medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Following residency, I completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Away from work I enjoy spending time with my family, running, Clemson athletics, and the occasional round of golf. My amazing wife, Amanda, 3 awesome kids, Vivian, Olivia, and Schaefer, love being a part of this residency family and the community of Greenville

Dr. Keiser is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) with a Certificate of Additional Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine. Dr. Keiser is an alumnus of the University of Missouri-Columbia where he earned his medical degree. He completed his residency in Family Medicine and his fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine both at Wake Forest University. After fellowship, he came to Greenville in 1999. He began working as a team physician with Furman University while growing a primary care private practice until 2006. He was faculty at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in the departments of Orthopedics and Family Medicine from 2006-2009. He then moved back to Greenville and returned to working with Furman University as well as Bon Secours Medical Group. In 2018 he joined Prisma. He is the Medical Director of Grenville Family Medicine. He also teaches at the medical school, he is a community preceptor for Family Medicine residents and he continues to work with Furman and Sports Medicine.