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Dr. Nathaniel Doe is a Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at NEOMED; teaching medical students and residents. He completed his medical school at the University of Liberia. His post-graduate medical training included a rotating internship at Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C., a Residency at Western Reserve Care System -now Valley Care Health System, and a Fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, OH. He is an attending Nephrologist at  Mercy Health Center. He is also in private practice and is a managing partner withThe Kidney Group  based in Youngstown.-Who we are

Dr. Virginia Dee Banks-Bright is an infectious disease physician with Northeast Ohio Infectious Disease Associates in Youngstown, Ohio. She was the former Director of Infectious Diseases at the UPMC Horizon Health System in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. She completed her medical school at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Her post-graduate medical training included an internship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH, Residency at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, and a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, OH.  She also has an MBA degree from the Youngstown State University School of Business.

Dr. Banks-Bright has served as Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at NEOMED; teaching medical students and residents, Director of UPMC-HORIZON Wound Care Center; where she served as chair for the UPMC Infection control committee, Director of Division of Infectious Disease at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA; where she served on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Bioterrorism subcommittee. Her areas of interests are Managing home intravenous antibiotics, HIV in Corrections, and Diabetic Foot Infections.  Dr. Banks-Bright has presented numerous times at the National Medical Association conferences, NEOUCOM Research Day, and for National Pharmaceutical companies speakers bureau.  She has conducted clinical trials in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies and research institutes examining the efficacy of various medications and intravenous antibiotics in treating infectious diseases.

Dr. Virginia Banks-Bright is now serving as Chair of the HIV/AIDS-Hepatitis C Initiative for the National Links Inc. organization. When Dee is not seeing patients, she is traveling around the world and running in 5k races.

I am a professor of exercise science at Northern Kentucky University where I research sports science and athlete wellness. My research is focused on monitoring athlete’s daily stress using wearable microsensor technology such as wrist-worn heart rate watches and GPS devices. The overall goal of my research is to improve the health and wellbeing of the athletes at NKU and around the world, while simultaneously maximizing their athletic performance. Interestingly, the research methods that I use can be implemented into the average person’s daily life. The goal of monitoring daily stress is to essentially adjust behavior and maximize health and wellbeing. I try to incorporate many of these scientific findings into my writing for Vickidoefitness.com. Prior to my work as a professor, I worked as a clinical exercise physiologist where I helped cardiac, pulmonary, and bariatric patients regain their health after surgery. In the end, my goal is to help people, regardless of age or athletic ability, learn to live a healthy, happy, and physically active lifestyle.