Position/ Where: Owner/ Founder: Allies in Healthcare, LLC
and Allies in Healthcare Publishing, LLC
Board Certified, Family Medicine Physician who works in a medical practice in Florissant, Missouri
Career Highlights: In addition to being a practicing physician, Dr. Taylor manages a limited liability corporation designed to focus on health issues and provide supportive health information through multimedia venues to both patients and health providers to ensure and improve quality healthcare for all.
She created a health educational DVD entitled, Taking Control: Making the Most of Your Doctor’s Visits. This DVD gives patients help with navigating through their office visits with their health provider and motivates them to take control of their health so that they may have an informative dialogue with their health provider and obtain a plan of action they are most likely to support and follow.
Taylor authored a health resource entitled, My Health Companion. This health planner contains inserts designed to help the patients keep up with a years worth of medications, office visits, immunizations and other topics pertaining to their health.
Secured a successful partnership with St. Louis Connect Care that allowed Connect Care to receive a health literacy grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to place My Health Companion and Taking Control: Making the Most of Your Doctor’s Visits DVD into the Connect Care Clinics.
Taylor designed one of the largest health fairs in the history of the Missouri Black Expo in August 2007. Allies in Healthcare helped to facilitate over 2000 health screenings and provided participants with several interactive health booths fitness workshops, and health lectures.
Organized three successful National Medical Association Region V continuing medical education conferences focusing on best practices to eliminate health disparities and enhancing physician development.
Initiated policy for the National Medical Association to create the consumer version of the NMA’s news publication entitled “ Healthy Living”
In practice as a Family Physician in St. Louis, Missouri since 2000.
Awards: Bertha Black Rhoda Section of National Council of Negro Women, Inc., Dorothy L. Height Award , October 2007
National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians 2007 Woman in Medicine Award
Mound City Medical Forum Outstanding Leadership Award, September 2005
Top Ten African American Physicians in St. Louis, Missouri, May 2002
Best physician in Region V, National Medical Association , April 2001
Education:
Rosati- Kain High School, St. Louis, Missouri Summa Cum Laude graduate
Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA Magna Cum Laude graduate
BS- Chemistry
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine
Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
Family Medicine Residency
Personal
Dr. Taylor is currently engaged to be married in 2009. She is the past health minister of St. James AME Church and is currently involved in numerous professional and civic organizations including-
Region V Trustee, National Medical Association
First Vice- President, Mound City Medical Forum
Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Member, The Links, Incorporated
Member, The Smart Set
St Louis Connection:
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but spent the greater part of my childhood in St. Louis, Missouri. I attended elementary school in University City, middle school in Overland, and finished high school at Rosati-Kain High School. I have always loved to help people and enjoyed math and science tremendously. As a physician, I have been able to parlay my love for math and science to help people live healthier lives. Being able to make this positive difference in other people’s lives has made the stress and sacrifice to become a physician worth it. Although I had no family members who were physicians, I greatly appreciated the encouragement and mentoring I received in my formative years from Nathaniel Murdock, MD, Jonathan Reed, MD, and Frank Richards, MD and the late ob/gyn Eugene Taylor, MD. These men were able to combine brilliance with a superb bedside manner that I will always strive to emulate. When I am able to take a person who is down, and then treat, educate and empower him to be healthy so that he may enjoy all the fruits of his labor, then I feel I have done a good deed. I am so thankful that I own a business and have chosen a profession that enables me to serve those in need.