In Memory of Janet Miles-Maestas, PA
November 2, 1952 – June 10, 2011

Our dear friend and co-worker, Janet Miles-Maestas, passed away after a very brave but brief battle with brain cancer. She is remembered with fondness and respect for her dedication to her patients at FEM Centre. Janet’s kind nature endeared people to her because they could tell she truly cared about them as individuals. She took the time to get to know her patients and they immediately sensed her sincerity and warmth. She is dearly missed by everyone at FEM Centre.

Janet was a Physician Assistant who graduated from the first PA program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth in 1999. She spent the first five years after graduation as a PA in Family Practice in Hillsboro and Whitney, Texas. In 2004 she transitioned to her true calling—bio-identical hormone treatment for women and men. She worked at the Hotze Health and Wellness Center in Katy, Texas. Janet was one of the few to become certified from the, “American Academy of Biologically Identical Hormone Therapy”. She also worked at the Roby Institute in Austin, Texas before joining FEM Centre in 2009.

 Janet had a passion for nutrition and wellness. She received a Master's degree in Nutrition from the University of Texas at Austin. Her 20 years of experience in this field includes work in nutrition in Guatemala, public health nutrition in New Mexico, where she wrote the lactating manual for women in Spanish, which eventual became a model for other states in the United States. During her career, Janet also worked as a PA and a Nutritionist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  She taught at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas and set up their national accreditation program in nutrition. Janet felt her nutrition background complemented her work as a Physician Assistant.