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Dr. Bailey serves as chief of cardiology for Centennial Heart at Parkridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee and a Physician Director of Cardiovascular Disease for HCA Healthcare. Her clinical practice focuses on the prevention of cardiovascular disease, women’s cardiovascular care and the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure.

She completed her undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Kentucky. She is passionate about medical education, improving cardiovascular health and advocating for her colleagues and patients. She has been involved in advocacy since her cardiology training, is a proud supporter of the American College of Cardiology’s HeartPAC and has attended many days on the hill and local legislative events to discuss the importance of providing equitable access to care for all.

She currently serves as the Secretary for the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, is a member of the ACC HeartPAC Executive Committee, is the editor-in-chief of the American College of Cardiology’s Extended Learning (ACCEL) editorial board.

Dr. Pieter Cohen graduated from Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut and completed his training at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Dr. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and practices Internal medicine in Somerville, Massachusetts caring for a large community of Brazilian immigrants.

Dr. Pieter Cohen is a leading expert on supplements and leads the Supplement Research Program.  He has conducted extensive research into the risks of dietary supplements and advocates for stricter regulation, emphasizing that the FDA regulates supplements as a food, not a drug, meaning manufacturers can market products without pre-market approval and the FDA’s role is to remove harmful ones after they are on the market.  Over the past 15 years, Dr. Cohen has investigated the novel, experimental and surprising ingredients in dietary supplements. He routinely recommends supplements to his patients who need them to treat medical conditions, while working to help all patients be more knowledgeable about the potential benefits and risks of these products.

Dr. Heersink completed her education, earning a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama and her medical education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at UAB and a Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University Dr. Heersink is double board certified in Internal and Geriatric Medicine.

As an internist and geriatrician, Dr. Heersink values patient-centered and holistic care, exploring lifestyle, genetics and medicine and how they all impact a patient’s health and health outcomes. Collaborations with the patient and caregivers provides a personalized and individual preventative care evaluating and advanced screenings from heart and brain health to emotional well-being wellbeing. Dr. Heersink is also interested in women’s health, nutrition and geriatric assessments.

Dr. Israel is a board-certified internist with the USA Health Mobile Diagnostic Center leading the USA Health Integrative Health and Wellness Program. Dr. Israel serves as Faculty at the University of South Alabama and has been in practice for over 40 years. Dr. Israel completed his undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University in Chemistry and received his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, completing his residency at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.

Dr. Israel became aware of how lifestyle choices affected health outcomes and determined that that even though there are “great medications for all diseases”, everything cannot be treated or cured all through medication. Dr. Israel believes that lifestyle modification, including nutrition, exercise and other techniques help outcomes. He believes integrative approaches to medicine are more effective, utilizing traditional medicine and also factors in nutrition and exercise, applied in an individual way with the patient at the center, treating the “whole person”, not just their disease. Patients see better outcomes and improvements in other areas of their life with this approach.

Dr. Strickland is an internist and Assistant Professor with the UAB Montgomery Internal Medicine Residency Program. He has been in practice for over 30 years. He received his medical degree from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Strickland teaches patients about the impact of food on health conditions and that health can be impacted by what is eaten and drunk every day. Dr. Strickland hosts community cooking demonstrations, preparing plant-based meals with a purpose and how changing eating habits can bring positive health changes. Dr. Strickland has received funding to initiate a community-based Teaching Kitchen that will educate medical students, residents, community physicians and patients how health eating and a plant-based diet can provide long-term health benefits.