54. Resilience Comes From: Looking Up to Your Role Models (feat. Dr. Melanie Shorter-Jones, Family Practice Physician)

Breakthrough Barriers with Damali

In this episode, Damali discusses the experience of working as a health care physician during the COVID 19 pandemic with Dr. Melanie Shorter-Jones. She is a family medicine physician, and has been serving the middle Georgia area for over 15 years. She has served as a physician speaker for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, she has been a clinical preceptor for the Mercer School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Philadelphia College of Medicine. She is a graduate of Albany State University (undergrad) and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Her residency training was completed at the Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Program. Dr. Melanie Shorter Jones shares that her resilience comes from her female role models in life. She gives advice on how to speak up and to seek opportunities.