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Advanced Women's Health Care Fellowship

1-Year Non-ACGME Fellowship
2 Positions

The UTHSC Advanced Women’s Health Care Fellowship, located in East Memphis, offers a unique one-year training opportunity for family physicians seeking advanced skills in obstetrics and women’s health.  Fellows serve as junior faculty/instructors within the Family Medicine Residency Program, gaining valuable teaching experience while expanding their own clinical expertise.

Training includes comprehensive prenatal care training (including high risk obstetrics), cesarean section training and surgical experience, office-based gynecologic procedures including LARC placement, colposcopies, and endometrial biopsies

The fellowship is based at St. Francis Hospital which preforms approximately 1,900 deliveries annually.  

Fellows function as attending physicians on the OB service at St. Francis Hospital as well as serving preceptors in the Family Medicine Center for resident physicians.  In addition, fellows maintain continuity of care through a longitudinal patient panel in the Family Medicine Center, providing ongoing outpatient women’s health and prenatal care.

Mission

  • To improve the abilities of Family Physicians to provide competent, appropriate obstetrical and office gynecological care
  • To impart the skills necessary to recognize, stabilize, and appropriately manage unforeseeable events and emergencies which may arise during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum

Vision

Our vision encompasses the full range of women’s healthcare. Following training in our program Fellows will be expertly skilled not only in performing operative obstetrics, but will also have skills in office gynecological procedures. These Procedures include, but are not limited to:

  • C-sections
  • OB USG
  • Colposcopy
  • LEEP Procedure
  • Nexplanon/IUD
  • Endometrial Biopsies

Applicants

Applicants for the Advanced Women's Health Care Program at UTHSC must submit the following:

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Cover letter expressing reason for interest
  • 3 letters of recommendation including: Residency Program Director and one current instructor/colleague
  • List of procedures performed including numbers: During Residency and Post-Residency (if applicable)
  • USMLE Scores
  • ITE scores
  • Medical degree
  • Official medical school transcript

Applications are reviewed as received. Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews beginning in September.

Current Fellows

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Samuel Loescher, DO

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Melody Su, MD

Faculty

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Muneeza Khan, MD, FAAFP
Family Medicine OB Faculty
Department Chair
Saint Francis Family Medicine
mkhan14@uthsc.edu
901.448.0230

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Stefania Baccino, MD
Assistant Professor

Saint Francis Family Medicine
sbaccino@uthsc.edu
901.866.8812

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Samantha Howard Caldwell, MD
Family Medicine OB Faculty
Fellowship Director
Saint Francis Family Medicine
showar22@uthsc.edu
901.448.0230

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Ashley Matthews, MD
Family Medicine OB Faculty
Residency Program Director
Saint Francis Family Medicine
amatth19@uthsc.edu
901.448.0225

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Ashley Newsome, MD
Assistant Professor

Saint Francis Family Medicine
anewsom4@uthsc.edu
901.866.8812

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Patrick Cleeton, MD
OB/GYN Faculty
Instructor

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Michael Podraza, MD
OB/GYN Faculty
Instructor
Saint Francis Family Medicine

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Hemanth Veluswamy, MD
Assistant Professor/OB-GYN

Saint Francis Family Medicine
hveluswa@uthsc.edu
901.866.8812

Nov 7, 2025