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Family Medicine

Rannette Schurtz, MD

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About Rannette

Dr. Schurtz is a graduate of Rider University, where she was a four-year Presidential Scholar. She received her BS in Biology and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She then attended MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine (now Drexel University College of Medicine) on a full-tuition Merit Scholarship and graduated in 2001. Dr. Schurtz completed her residency from Crozer-Keystone Family Practice Residency program in 2004. While there she received awards for community outreach and patient education. She is a member of the American Medical Association and Pennsylvania Medical Society and is a fellow in the American Academy of Family Practice.

Dr. Schurtz prides herself on creating a compassionate doctor-patient relationship led by the patient. She believes in providing the most up-to-date and evidence-based information to her patients in an effort to allow them to make educated decisions for their health and the health of their family. With this knowledge she hopes that a partnership and commitment to health are forged, and that her patients are empowered in controlling their own health care.

Dr. Schurtz is fluent in Spanish. She lives in Chester County with her family. In her free time she likes traveling to warmer climates, watching sports and going to the theatre.

Anita Snyder, CRNP

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About Anita

Anita joined PentaHealth (formerly Gateway Medical Associates) in December 2004. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1993 from Neumann College (now University) and her Master of Science in Nursing in 2004 from the University of Delaware.

Prior to becoming a Nurse Practitioner, she worked at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Delaware County as a Radiologic Technologist and Ultrasonographer. She continued her education while working and raising her children, pursuing her undergraduate and graduate degree in Nursing. As an RN, she worked most of her career on a Cardiac step down unit and Medical ICU.

Anita enjoys working in Family Practice, with a special interest in Adolescence and Women’s Health. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, but especially the time she and her husband can spend with their grandchildren.

Laurie Taylor, CRNP

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About Laurie

Laurie was born and raised in the Downingtown area. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at West Chester University in 1999, and subsequently worked for 10 years as an RN. Through that time she worked in Pediatric Oncology at both Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children. Laurie also did some medical missions work in rural North India, where she eventually decided to move.

While in India, she worked in a Home for Children, treating leprosy. It was here that Laurie met her husband, and began a family. Eventually, the Taylor family moved to Baltimore, MD where they lived for 4 years. Laurie obtained her MS Family Nurse Practitioner license in 2009 at the University of Maryland. She and her husband have recently moved back into the home where she grew up and are raising 4 boys, along with a big dog and flock of back yard birds. She has worked for 8 years as a Nurse Practitioner, treating patients of all ages in family practice. Laurie’s hobbies include: spending time with her crazy boys, participating in her local church, gardening, cooking, and building things.

Gene F. Uhler, MD

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About Gene

Dr. Gene Uhler is from New Jersey where he was born ninth in a family of 11 children. During high school and college, he found that he enjoyed working with children and dedicated a lot of his time to church and camp ministries.

He attended Rutgers University where he studied biology and elementary education. While at Rutgers, Dr. Uhler became interested in medicine and went to medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He completed his training at the Somerset Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program in Somerville, New Jersey.

Family medicine has always been Dr. Uhler’s chief interest since he started medical school. He enjoys the opportunity to get to know the whole family and to be involved in continuing health care. During his residency, he was chairman of the Patient Education Committee and has a special interest in that aspect of family medicine, as well as pediatrics and preventive medicine.

Dr. Uhler resides in Downingtown with his wife Karen. He has five children and a growing number of grandchildren. Dr. Uhler enjoys nature study, fishing, camping and good books.

Alpa Vadher, MD

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About Alpa

Dr. Alpa Vadher received her MD from Temple University School of Medicine in 1996 with honors and awards in Family Practice. She completed her residency at Hunterdon Medical Center in New Jersey and began her career with Colonial Family Practice in 1999.

She is Board Certified in Family Medicine and a member of the American Medical Association, Chester County Medical Society, Pennsylvania and the American Academy of Family Physicians. She has received America’s Best Physicians award in 2015 – 2025, MainLine Today Top Doctors award in 2018 – 2025, Castle Connolly Top Doctors award in 2023 – 2025, Exceptional Women In Medicine award for 2022, and Patient’s Choice award in 2009 – 2019.

She has been on the Board of Directors at PentaHealth formerly Gateway Medical Associates since 2014 and Chester County Hospital since 2021.

She enjoys taking care of the whole family doing comprehensive care with up to date medicine. She has 3 kids and in her spare time she enjoys traveling, dancing, photography, flower arranging, decorating, and keeping an active lifestyle.

Sue Villarini, CRNP

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About Sue

After completing her BSN in Nursing at the University of Rochester, Ms. Villarini received her Masters Degree as a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Association. She has been an integral part of PentaHealth Family Practice West Chester formerly Gateway Medical Associates since 1996.

Her special interests include women’s health, and diabetes education.

She is a native of West Chester where she resides with her husband. She has two grown children and a grandson.