Board Certified

Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Residency: Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine

Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Residency: Alaska Family Medicine

Board Certified in Family Medicine

Joe Llenos, MD, board certified in family medicine, grew up in the Philippines, went to medical school at West Visayas State University, and did his Residency at The Institute for Family Health, New York. He has a particular interest in geriatric care but is ready to help patients of all ages manage chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and more. His approach is to partner with his patients to set and reach goals to optimize their health through lifestyle changes with the support of medical assistance as needed.

Dr. Llenos and his wife, Cindy, moved to Homer in 2022 from Idaho, where he spent 13 years practicing family medicine. Healthcare and helping others run in the family, as Cindy is a nurse, and their son is in his third year of medical school in Ohio.

When not caring for others, the family enjoys hiking, mountaineering, climbing, and all things in the great outdoors. Dr. Llenos especially enjoys landscape and night sky photography. His images emphasize the importance of nature, the night sky, and how important it is to minimize light pollution, as it disrupts biological rhythms. His photography can be seen on Instagram at Ancient_Fog_Photgraphy.

PeggyEllen is a diabetes care and education specialist with over 20 years of experience and training in diabetes education and chronic disease self-management.  She enjoys working with people of all ages and with all types of diabetes, to help them find the tools and strategies that work for them. She understands the financial, psychological, and physical demands that diabetes can place on individuals and families, and works to support people in finding creative solutions to whatever challenges they are facing.

As a nurse, PeggyEllen keeps up to date on the new medications and technologies that are making living with diabetes easier. As a person with diabetes herself, she has learned to value problem solving, brainstorming, and team work with health care providers. Collaboration is the key to living well with diabetes.

Anna Williams grew up in Homer (formerly known as Anna Dickerson).  She first arrived here from New Zealand as a three year old when her Yankee father convinced her Kiwi mother that they would just visit for the summer.

She earned an English degree at the University of Puget Sound in 2003, where she was the first Homer High graduate to make a college soccer team and also joined the rowing team, and the rugby team (just long enough to break her arm).  After some commercial fishing and some world travelling, she returned to Alaska and earned her Nursing degree at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) in 2007.

Anna has practiced as an inpatient RN in Pediatrics at Alaska Native Hospital and as a Medical-Surgical and Labor and Delivery nurse at South Peninsula Hospital.  After a seven year journey that was interrupted by the birth of her adorable son Elijah in 2011, and marriage to the charming Steven Williams in 2013, she earned her Master’s degree from UAA in 2017.  She is Board Certified in Family Medicine.  Anna likes working at Homer Medical Center with a wonderful team of medical assistants, nurses, and providers who support each other and have excellent patient care as their top priority.