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Dr. Latonya Washington 2016 Tougaloo
College 40 Under 40 Honoree
LaTonya B. Washington, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP is a native of
Jackson, MS. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology
from Tougaloo College and her Doctorate of Medicine from
University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Her Postgraduate
training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics was completed in 2008 at
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she served as Chief
Resident in her final year. She obtained a Masters of Business Administration from Auburn
University in 2014.
She is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics and actively practices both
specialties. She has practiced medicine as a hospitalist as well as outpatient adult and
pediatric medicine in Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee. She is the former Chief Medical
Officer at Regional One Health Extended Care Hospital in Memphis, TN. She currently
serves as a pediatric hospitalist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, as the supervising
physician at Graham Primary Healthcare, as a physician investigator at Bayer Consumer
Research Center, and as the Associate Director of Hospital Medicine at St. Francis Hospital
in Memphis, TN.
She also serves as a physician advisor providing peer and utilization review
services as well as a medical expert witness providing expert opinion and testimony in cases
involving general internal medicine and pediatrics.
She has participated in medical mission work in the Philippines. She serves as a charter
member of the LeBonheur Children’s Hospital Associate Board of Directors, an organization
promoting the health of children in the Mid-South through education, advocacy,
philanthropy, and volunteerism and also participates in the Health Issues and Chronic
Absenteeism Steering Committee through the People First Partnership an organization
working in conjunction with the Memphis chapter of the NAACP and Latino Memphis to
identify and remedy health disparities in children of color affecting school attendance.
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