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CHI Memorial Medical Group establishe­s CHI Memorial Endocrinol­ogy Associates

- From CHI Memorial

CHI Memorial Medical Group has announced the opening of CHI Memorial Endocrinol­ogy Associates, a practice that provides comprehens­ive medical management and care for conditions like Type 1 and 2 diabetes, thyroid disease, thyroid cancer, and a range of metabolic, pituitary and adrenal disorders.

The practice will be led by Prashanth Sekhar, MD, a fellowship-trained endocrinol­ogist, with more than 10 years of experience helping individual­s with hormone-related conditions and diseases. Sekhar earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in

Dominica, West Indies. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Ga. He continued his medical training by completing a fellowship in endocrinol­ogy, diabetes and metabolism, also from Georgia Regents University. Sekhar is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine — Endocrinol­ogy and Metabolism and is a member of the American Associatio­n of Clinical Endocrinol­ogists and the American Thyroid Associatio­n.

Tiffany Potter, APRN-BC, FNP-C, joins Sekhar at CHI Memorial Endocrinol­ogy Associates. She earned a Master of Science in nursing and a Master of Science in nurse education from Southern Adventist University in Collegedal­e, Tenn., and is certified by the American Associatio­n of Nurse Practition­ers (AANP) and American Nurses Credential­ing Center (ANCC). Tiffany has more than 20 years of experience as a registered nurse and has provided care as a nurse practition­er since 2015.

CHI Memorial Endocrinol­ogy Associates is located in CHI Memorial Missionary Ridge Medical Tower at 725 Glenwood Drive, Suite E-588, Chattanoog­a.

Visit CHIMemoria­lMedicalGr­oup.org to learn more or call 423.206.9025 to schedule an appointmen­t.

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Prashanth Sekhar
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Tiffany Potter

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