Erlanger adds new doctors to its medical practices
Erlanger Health System said it has added Drs. Alexandria Cooke, Chelsea Shugars and Katie Pannell to its growing list of providers.
Cooke is a board-certified, fellowship-trained family medicine physician with UT Family Practice. Though she is a Georgia native, Cooke has spent the majority of her adult life in Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale. Cooke spent several months working as an overseas missionary before attending medical school at Meharry Medical
College in Nashville. Following her medical education, Cooke moved to Chattanooga and completed a family medicine residency with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga at Erlanger, followed by a family medicine surgical obstetrics fellowship at Clínica Médicos.
Shugars is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist with Erlanger Neurology who specializes in neuromuscular medicine. She attended Clemson University for her undergraduate studies, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in health science. She worked at the National Institutes of Health before pursuing her medical education at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Shugars spent her remaining medical training at Wake
Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. There, she completed an internal medicine internship, along with a neurology residency, in which she served as chief resident of neurology during her final year. Her training culminated in a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine.
Pannell is a board-certified family medicine physician with Erlanger Primary Care in Hixson. She grew up in northwest Tennessee and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Pannell then attended the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. Following medical school, she traveled to Chattanooga, where she completed a family medicine residency at Erlanger, affiliated with the Universi- ty of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga.