Wellness Champions

If you or one of your peers is having trouble or need to talk with someone, please feel free to contact your program’s wellness champion.

We have a list of wellness activities submitted by programs in their Annual Program Evaluation or to the GMEC Wellness Subcommittee.

Program	Champion
Allergy/Immunology	Bindiya Bagga, MD
Anesthesiology	Christopher Parker-Rajewski, MD
Dermatology	Whitney Shroyer, MD
Emergency Medicine Memphis	Alan Taylor, MD
Emergency Medicine Nashville	Kristin Brown, MD
Family Medicine Jackson	Christopher Knight, MD
Family Medicine Nashville	Vanessa Streicher, DO
Family Medicine St. Francis	Ryan Shumon Rahman, MD
Family Medicine Sports Medicine	John Hyden, MD
Internal Medicine Memphis	Desiree Burroughs-Ray, MD, Savannah Hauter, MD (PGY-3), and Rohit Raina, MD (PGY-3)
Internal Medicine Nashville	Ben Maddox, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics	Natascha Thompson, MD and Desiree Burroughs-Ray, MD
Cardiology	Adedayo Adeboye, MD
Interventional Cardiology	Sunil Jha, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	Uzoma Ibebuogu, MD
Critical Care Medicine	Rabin Shrestha, MD
Endocrinology	Helmut Steinberg, MD
Gastroenterology	Claudio Tomboazzi, MD
Infectious Diseases	Nathan Summers, MD
Nephrology	Colleen Hastings, MD
Rheumatology	Dependra Pattanaik, MD
Hematology/Oncology	Arnel Pallera, MD
Neonatology	Mohamad T. Elabiad, MD
Pulmonary Critical Care	Rabin Shrestha, MD
Sleep Medicine	Rabin Shrestha, MD
Neurosurgery	Madison Michael, MD
Neurology	Andrew Wilner, MD
Child Neurology	Marianna Rivas, MD and Jenny Schmidt, MD
Clinical Neurophysiology	Andrew Wilner, MD
Vascular Neurology	Andrew Wilner, MD
OB-GYN Nashville	Reagan Saig, MD and Jon Anderson, DO (PGY-2)
OB-GYN Memphis	Owen Phillips, MD
Gynecology/Oncology	Todd Tillmanns, MD
Maternal Fetal Medicine	Norman Meyer, MD
Ophthalmology	Andrew Meador, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery	Derek Kelly, MD
Hand Surgery	Ben Mauck, MD
Pediatric Orthopaedics	Derek Kelly, MD
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine	Thomas Throckmorton, MD
Otolaryngology	Rosemary Stocks, MD
Pathology	Kinjal Shah, MD
Forensic Pathology	Kinjal Shah, MD
Pediatric Pathology	Kinjal Shah, MD
Pediatrics	Bindiya Bagga, MD
Pediatric Subspecialties	Bindiya Bagga, MD
Psychiatry	Khyati Kothari, MD
Child Psychiatry	Andres Ramos, MD and Khyati Kothari, MD
Geriatric Psychiatry	Khyati Kothari, MD
Radiology	Brian Green, MD
Pediatric Radiology	Anand Raju, MD
Radiation Oncology	Katelyn Ragland, MD
Surgery Nashville	Rachel Bryant, MD
Surgery Memphis	Ashley Hendrix, MD
Surgical Critical Care	Peter Fischer, MD
Surgical Oncology	Paxton Dickson, MD
Pediatric Surgery	Ying Weatherall, MD
Vascular Surgery	Ed Garrett, MD
Urology	Robert Wake, MD
Pediatric Urology	Dana Giel, MD
Hospice and Palliative Medicine	Christine Lamey, MD
Pediatric Surgical Critical Care	Alexander Feliz, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology	Anushree Algotar, MD and Maggie Vickers, MD