Myiesha taylor biography
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‘We are Doc McStuffins,’ physician writes
DALLAS — Dr. Myiesha Taylor isn’t usually a big fan of children’s animated television shows.
But the minute she saw Doc McStuffins, which premiered last year on the Disney Channel, she was transfixed by the young black girl who becomes a doctor to her toys.
“That character looks like me when I was a little girl,” says Taylor, 39. “It was like Disney peeked through my playroom window and heard me talking to my dolls.”
Taylor was so inspired by the show that she created a “We Are Doc McStuffins” collage with pictures of herself and her friends who are female doctors of color and sent it to Disney as a thank-you.
Disney returned the compliment by asking Taylor, an emergency room physician at Texas Regional Medical Center in Sunnyvale who also runs a clinic in Carrollton, to appear in a segment on the show this past February.
That appearance has been just one aspect of Taylor’s ever-more-visible mission to promote and inspire women doctors of color. How she got to this point is a story that is rooted in generations of family history an
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Dr. Myiesha Taylor is a board certified emergency medicine physician specialist and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Myiesha was born and raised in the Southern California areas of Long Beach and Los Angeles. She graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana with summa cum laude (highest) honors with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, and subsequently attended the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine obtaining her medical degree (MD).
While at Xavier and USC she earned multiple national awards and was Vice President of the Chemical Honor Society, honors student, gross anatomy tutor and received various scholarships. She is active in community service via Girl Scouts, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and Jack and Jill of America. She has various academic publications and has engaged in extensive toxicological research dating back to her undergraduate years at Xavier University.
Thereafter, she continued her training as an intern and resident at Los Angeles County King Drew Medical Center in South Central Los Angele
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Dr. Myiesha Taylor is a trailblazing physician and educator, renowned for her expertise in functional and integrative medicine, and her innovative integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare. An American physician, she holds board certifications from the American Board of Medical Specialties, the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons, and the American Council of Holistic Medicine in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Taylor's expertise extends into functional medicine, where she is recognized as a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP) with advanced training from the Southern California University of Health Sciences, Functional Medicine University. Further solidifying her stature, she is a fellow at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) and holds certification in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine from the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM).
Born and raised in Southern California, Myiesha Taylor's academic journey began with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana
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