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The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Angela Haller
Shreyas Gangadhara, MD, MS, RPNI
Dr. Shreyas Gangadhara, MD is a dual-board certified Neurologist with certification in General Neurology and Vascular Neurology (Stroke). Dr Gangadhara currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi. He received Medical degree from Mysore Medical College and Research Institute in India and completed his Neurology Residency and Vascular Neurology Fellowship training at University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. He received his Master of Science degree with focus on Clinical Investigation from University of Mississippi Medical Center. He enjoys teaching medical students, residents and fellows and is actively involved in research. He is site Principial Investigator for NIH sponsored clinical study that focuses on Vascular Dementia and cognitive impairement. He is currently serving on several committees at University of Mississippi and plays an active role in the UMC Stroke Center. Dr Gangadhara has publications in various leading journals and has presented in many National and International conferences. He is also a reviewer for several leading journals in Neurology. He is a member of American Academy of Neurology and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Dr Gangadhara has won many awards for research and education in his career.
Vinayak K. Nahar
DeAngela Ivory, MPH
DeAngela works closely with the UMMC Telehealth Center of Excellence as a Project Manager to support TCOE projects, project implementation, and Principal Investigators (PIs). DeAngela has been a part of the UMMC team since 2014 but recently joined the Center for Telehealth Center of Excellence in January 2022. DeAngela has a BS in Kinesiology from Mississippi State and a MS in Public Health from the Mississippi University of Women.
Yunxi Zhang, PhD
Dr. Yunxi Zhang is an assistant professor of data science at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). She has been a biostatistician for the Telehealth Center of Excellence at UMMC since 2019 and promoted to Associate Director of Research in 2023. With expertise in study design, statistical analysis, and economic evaluation, she has been working on many collaborative clinical research projects. She is interested in biostatistics methodology and application as well as health economics in telehealth service evaluation. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and her MS in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas Dobbs, MD
Dr. Dobbs is the current Dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health and a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UMMC. Prior to this role he served as the State Health Officer for Mississippi, directing among many other things the state's COVID-19 pandemic response. His career has been situated at the crossroads of patient care and public health. As an infectious diseases physician, he has spent the majority of his clinical hours working with under-resourced populations through the Mississippi State Department of Health and community health centers, with a focus on those living with HIV. He is very familiar with stigma and the adverse impacts of the social determinants of health and how they can undermine full opportunities for health and prosperity. He has worked many years in Mississippi as a physician, advocate and leader. Dr. Dobbs has been actively involved in the use of technology to treat patients remotely, especially those impacted by tuberculosis, with the Mississippi State Department of Health and the Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center at the University of Florida. He readily appreciates the promise of novel approaches to deliver healthcare and opportunities for health through technological innovation as a way to alleviate some of the adverse effects of negative social determinants of health.
Donald Clark, MD
Donald (Trey) Clark III, MD, MPH is a practicing cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UMMC. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Mississippi (2006) and completed medical school at UMMC (2010). He completed internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL (2013) where he also served as chief medical resident (2013-2014). He went on to complete fellowship training in cardiovascular disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH (2017). During fellowship training, he obtained Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA. He joined the faculty at UMMC in 2017 and currently serves as the director of the cardiology fellowship training program. Dr. Clark’s interests include primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and the use of technology for cardiovascular risk factor control. He is the medical director of remote patient monitoring at the UMMC Center for Telehealth, holds grants in the area of telemonitoring for cardiovascular risk factor control, and is an investigator with the Jackson Heart Study. Dr. Clark has spoken at national and international professional meetings and authored over 50 publications in journals including Circulation, European Heart Journal, and JAMA Cardiology.