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