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Medicine with time, data and real partnership. About Evoke 5 in McKinney

Evoke 5 began with one family doctor’s frustration: patients got more prescriptions every year and kept getting sicker. The problem wasn’t the patients. It was the model.

Dr. Castel Santana standing in a lobby in front of modern artwork

What Evoke 5 means

The 5 is Dr. Cas’s 5 Pillars of Health & Wellness©: Medical, Physical, Mental, Spiritual and Aesthetic. Evoke is what the practice works to stir up in every patient.

  1. A renewed hope that you can not only get through the day, but make the most of it.

  2. The belief that your health is a worthy investment.

  3. The understanding that finding and addressing root causes matters.

  4. The motivation to begin.

  5. The commitment to making changes that will change your life.

Root-cause care at the center, everything you need around it

Evoke 5 is powered by MedSomma. Dr. Cas’s root-cause model sits at the center, with regenerative, hormone, IV, peptide and aesthetic care around it, all under one roof on Eldorado Parkway.

A warm, modern lounge with two olive armchairs
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The principles behind every visit

  • Partnership over transactions. Time, respect and real listening come first.
  • Root causes over band-aids. Symptoms are clues, not the target.
  • Mitochondria at the center. Cellular energy is the foundation of healthy aging.
  • Data before assumptions. Test, track, adjust.
  • Foundations before aggressive protocols. Sleep, nutrition, gut and hormones come before advanced therapies.
  • Medication when it’s needed. Balanced with everything else that works, not handed out by default.

“We are building this next chapter with intentionality so that the medicine we practice matches the standard we believe every patient deserves.”

Dr. Castel A. Santana, MD, CFMP & Dr. Carrie Carda, MD

The people behind your care

Dr. Castel Santana in a blue suit on the staircase at Evoke 5

Founder, Evoke 5 · Medical Director

Dr. Castel A. Santana, MD, CFMP

Board-certified family physician and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Known to patients and the community as Dr. Cas, he built Evoke 5 around time, data and root-cause care.

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Co-Medical Director

Dr. Carrie Carda, MD

More than 25 years as a board-certified OB/GYN and regenerative medicine practitioner, with a focus on bioidentical hormones, IV nutrition, customized nutrition plans, weight loss and pain management. Her goal is to teach women and men about “self-care” as much as “healthcare.”

Full bio

Dr. Carrie Carda brings more than 25 years of experience as a board-certified OB/GYN and regenerative (functional medicine) practitioner. Her work emphasizes bioidentical hormone therapy, IV nutrition, customized nutritional plans, weight loss and pain management, and her knowledge of supplements and alternative approaches is extensive.

In addition to residency training, she completed two additional master’s programs through the medical schools of the University of South Florida in Tampa and Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her internship in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Louisville, followed by residency in obstetrics and gynecology at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis.

Her regenerative training includes herbs and supplements, IV nutrition therapy, injections using advanced biologics, platelet-rich plasma, ozone therapy, Prolozone and prolotherapy, used for anti-aging, autoimmune conditions, hair and face restoration and musculoskeletal pain. She maintains a busy practice and is the mother of four.

Headshot of Lauren Doyle, FNP-C, in MedSomma scrubs

Family Nurse Practitioner

Lauren Doyle, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in functional and longevity medicine, with more than a decade of acute and preventive care experience.

Full bio

Lauren Doyle, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in functional and longevity medicine. A graduate of Texas Woman’s University, she brings more than a decade of clinical experience spanning acute and preventive care, from caring for patients in some of their most critical moments to helping them improve their health long before a crisis occurs.

Lauren practices with an integrative mindset, drawing on both conventional and functional medicine to understand the whole patient. She enjoys digging into a patient’s history, symptoms, lifestyle and biomarkers to find the patterns behind how they feel. Her clinical interests include hormone and thyroid optimization, metabolic health and medical weight management, peptide therapy, advanced lab interpretation and detoxification.

When she isn’t seeing patients, Lauren is a wife and mother to three girls. She and her husband, Derek, have been married for more than a decade.

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