How the Exceptional Women in Medicine Are Chosen
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Good health is the baseline. For everything. How we work, how we play, what we choose to eat, where (and how often) we travel. The Mid-South has an abundance of hospitals and clinics that exist for the shared mission of a thriving community: wellness. Within those institutions, though, are women who have made it their own life mission to heal the sick and keep those blessed with good health on the right path, regardless of life stage.
Let this year’s list of Exceptional Women in Medicine be your first resource should you be in need of care, be it a sprained wrist or lingering stomach discomfort. These specialists have been chosen among peers as the best in their field. Your good health is their baseline.
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An associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Dr. Claudette Shephard is a gynecologist at Regional One Health. Her medical degree is from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and her internship and residency were at SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn/Kings County Hospital Center in New York. Her pediatric and adolescent gynecology fellowship was at UTHSC.
Shephard has been in Memphis for 30 years and is continuing her groundbreaking work in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, but is taking on further duties in a new role as associate dean for diversity and inclusion for the college. “This is an area more and more institutions are looking at so we can truly address the needs of our patients and make sure that our trainees, students, residents, and active faculty are respected and appreciated for who they are and what they bring to the table,” she says.
Shephard has seen how the pandemic has brought changes to her field. “It has tested our resources, which has tested our creativity,” she says. “We never thought that we could get so much accomplished without physically being in the same space, but we’ve adapted to technology. Telemedicine and telehealth have taken off and allowed us to reach patients who otherwise may not have been able to make it to their appointments. It expanded the scope and it has connected the medical community because we can now benefit from the expertise of individuals in another state. We had the technology to do that, but it wasn’t done on a regular basis.”
It is also now possible to reach patients in more useful ways. “If we have a pregnant woman at home with children or concerned about leaving because of the pandemic, she can still make her OB visits,” Shephard says. “We can still check on the moms to make sure they’re doing well. We can provide prenatal education classes virtually.”
And patients don’t have to take time off for follow-ups. “Now I can do a telehealth visit, check up on my patients, and not have to disrupt what’s going on in their household,” she says. “And patient compliance, I think, is increased when we make provisions for that. You’re really getting better results from all of this.” Better outcomes are boosted by the new ways of doing things. Blood pressure monitors, for example, are now in more homes so the patient can take a reading.
“No matter what we do in terms of trying to provide education, to provide resources, we still have patients who have great needs,” Shephard says, pointing out that sexual abuse has been exacerbated by the pandemic. “Children were at home in the early phases of the pandemic, often in a setting that continued to expose them to their abusers, and without the outlets of school to share with a counselor.”
With the pandemic showing where these pockets of crimes are happening, she says there is a continuing need to make sure that reproductive healthcare needs of adolescents “are addressed in terms of education, contraception, empowering them to be more responsible, and take a role in understanding how it affects them long-term.” — Jon W. Sparks
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Allergy & Immunology
Nora Daher
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Daher Asthma and Allergy Clinic
2136 Exeter Road
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 203-6055
Christie F. Michael
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Cardiovascular Disease
Jennifer S. Morrow
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Stern Cardiovascular
8060 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 271-1000
Maureen A. Smithers
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Saint Francis Hospital Bartlett
Sutherland Cardiology Clinic
7460 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 763-0200
Neeraja Yedlapati
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
UT Methodist Physicians Cardiology
1211 Union Avenue, Suite 965
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 435-8550
Child Neurology
Tanjala T. Gipson
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
848 Adams Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
(866) 870-5570
Amy L. McGregor
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
848 Adams Avenue, Suite L400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Robin L. Morgan
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Le Bonheur Outpatient Center
848 Adams Avenue, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Namrata S. Shah
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
Neurology Clinic
848 Adams Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Clinical Genetics
Jewell C. Ward
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Dermatology
Gwen F. Beard
Memphis Dermatology Clinic
1455 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6655
Luella G. Churchwell
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Dermatology East
1335 Cordova Cove
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 753-2794
Robin H. Friedman-Musicante
Memphis Dermatology Clinic
1455 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6655
Frances K. Lawhead
Memphis Dermatology Clinic
1455 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6655
Purvisha J. Patel
Advanced Dermatology & Skin Cancer Associates
7658 Poplar Pike
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 759-2322
Malika Tuli
Mid-South Dermatology
6644 Summer Knoll Circle
Bartlett, TN 38134
(901) 372-4545
Teresa S. Wright
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Le Bonheur Outpatient Center
848 Adams Avenue, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Toni M. Whitaker
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities
711 Jefferson Avenue
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Diagnostic Radiology
Sue C. Kaste
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Department of Diagnostic Imaging
262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 220
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 595-3347
Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Lisa M. Myers
Endocrinology and Diabetes Specialists
1920 Kirby Parkway, Suite 102
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 334-5464
Family Medicine
Ericka L. Gunn-Hill
Saint Francis Hospital – Memphis
Jackson-Randle Family Healthcare
5142 Stage Road, Suite 100
Memphis, TN 38134
(901) 382-2040
Aparna K. Murti
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Methodist Medical Group
2589 Appling Road, Suite 101
Bartlett, TN 38133
(901) 752-2300
Gynecologic Oncology
Linda M. Smiley
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
West Cancer Center
7945 Wolf River Boulevard
Memphis, TN 38138
(901) 683-0055
Infectious Disease
Shirin Mazumder
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Methodist Medical Group – Infectious Disease
1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 370
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 758-7888
Internal Medicine
Joan Michelle Allmon
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Collierville
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Aim Allmon Internal Medicine
526 Halle Park Drive
Collierville, TN 38017
(901) 910-3246
Martha N. Taylor
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Methodist Medical Group
7690 Wolf River Circle
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 756-1231
Natascha S. Thompson
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Baptist Medical Group
8040 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 102
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 227-7900
Catherine R. Womack
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
UT Methodist Physicians
Primary Care
57 Germantown Court, Suite 100
Cordova, TN 38018
(901) 758-7888
Medical Oncology
Sylvia S. Richey
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
West Cancer Center
7945 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 683-0055
Carmel S. Verrier
Saint Francis Hospital – Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
West Cancer Center
7945 Wolf River Boulevard
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 683-0055
Nephrology
Lynn Ebaugh
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Collierville
East Memphis Nephrology
7640 Wolf River Circle, Floor 2
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 755-0208
Neurology
Rohini Bhole
University Clinical Health
1331 Union Avenue, Floor 11
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 866-8811
Violiza Inoa Acosta
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Regional One Health
Semmes Murphey Clinic
6325 Humphreys Boulevard
Memphis, TN 38120
(901) 522-7700
Barbara Cape O’Brien
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Collierville
Neurology Clinic
8000 Centerview Parkway, Suite 500
Cordova, TN 38018
(901) 747-1111
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Lanetta Anderson
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Womens Physicians Group
7705 Poplar Avenue, B Building – Suite 110
Memphis, TN 38138
(901) 273-1190
Heather Pearson Chauhan
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Exceed Hormone Specialists
7512 Second Street
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 312-7899
Vanessa M. Givens
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Women’s Health Specialists
7800 Wolf Trail Cove
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 682-9222
Claudette J. Shephard
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Regional One Health
Outpatient Center
880 Madison Avenue, Suite 3E01
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 515-3800
Ophthalmology
Penny A. Asbell
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
University Clinical Health
Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 448-6650
Lauren C. Ditta
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
University Clinical Health
Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Mary E. Hoehn
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Natalie C. Kerr
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
University Clinical Health
Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Otolaryngology
Victoria L. Lim
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville
Shea Clinic
6133 Poplar Pike
Memphis, TN 38119
(901) 761-9720
Pediatric Endocrinology
Alicia M. Diaz-Thomas
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Joan C. Han
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 100
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Melody J. Cunningham
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
848 Adams Avenue, Suite L400
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 287-7337
Pediatric Nephrology
Margaret C. Hastings
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Rima Zahr
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Le Bonheur Outpatient Center
51 North Dunlap Street
Memphis, TN 38105
(866) 870-5570
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Jennifer D. Mclevy
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite G10
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Rose Mary Stocks
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Le Bonheur Outpatient Center
51 North Dunlap Street, 1st floor
Memphis, TN 38105
(866) 870-5570
Pediatric Pulmonology
Patricia J. Dubin
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Tonia E. Gardner
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Floor 4
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Pediatric Rheumatology
Linda K. Myers
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 100
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Pediatric Urology
Dana W. Giel
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 100
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Pediatrics
Janet D. Geiger
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
River City Pediatrics
6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 610
Memphis, TN 38119
(901) 761-1280
Elisha M. McCoy
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 287-7337
Dawn H. Scott
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Consultants
51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 310
Memphis, TN 38105
(901) 523-2945
Ellen J. Stecker
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
River City Pediatrics
6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 610
Memphis, TN 38119
(901) 761-1280
Plastic Surgery
Patricia L. Eby
Saint Francis Hospital – Memphis
Cosmetic Surgery Specialists of Memphis
6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 360
Memphis, TN 38119
(901) 752-1412
Pulmonary Disease
Amik Sodhi
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
UT Methodist Physicians
1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 370
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 758-7888
Radiation Oncology
Jenny Tibbs
Saint Francis Hospital – Memphis
Department of Radiation Oncology
5959 Park Avenue
Memphis, TN 38119
(901) 765-2050
Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility
Amelia Bailey
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Fertility Associates of Memphis
80 Humphreys Center, Suite 307
Memphis, TN 38120
(901) 747-2229
Surgery
Alyssa D. Throckmorton
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Baptist Medical Group
Memphis Breast Care
6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 208
Memphis, TN 38120
(901) 227-8950
Lindi Hanna Vanderwalde
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Baptist Medical Group
Memphis Breast Care
6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 208
Memphis, TN 38120
(901) 227-8950
Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Val Y. Vogt
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis
The Conrad Pearson Clinic
1325 Wolf Park Drive, Suite 102
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 252-3400
