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Shelyna A. Rice has been a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) since 1999. She specializes in three areas of medicine: 1) Primary care 2) Industrial Health, and 3) Wellness management. She started her career as a FNP with a large multi-specialty group practice and later spent several years practicing at a hospital based clinic with a major corporation. Currently, she is the owner/operator of Bilancia Center of Health which she founded in 2006. Ms. Rice graduated from the University of South Alabama and Louisiana Tech University. She has a Masters Degree in the Science of Nursing and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Prior to her training as a nurse practitioner, she worked for years as a critical care registered nurse in Intensive Care Units and Emergency Departments at large urban medical centers both in the United States and abroad. She has worked, traveled and studied in places around the globe. She lives in Ruston, Louisiana with her husband and two children.