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Director-Health Officer, Shelby County Health Department, Tennessee
Michelle Taylor, MD, is Director-Health Officer of the Shelby County Health Department, in Memphis Tenn. She is also a Lt Col and Residency-Trained Flight Surgeon in the Tennessee Air National Guard. She is licensed to practice medicine in Tennessee and the District of Columbia.
Michelle received her undergraduate degree from Howard University in 1997 and her medical degree from East Tennessee State University in 2002. She completed a pediatric residency at East Tennessee State University/Johnson City Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2005. She earned a master’s degree in epidemiology from the University of Tennessee in 2009, a Doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2015, and a master’s degree in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2018.
Michelle has two children, Malik and Ella, and loves traveling to new places, baking, walking, and reading.
