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NW Campus - Dalton Faculty & Staff

Associate & Assistant Dean

Dr. Paul Brock

Campus Associate Dean, NW Campus

pbrock@augusta.edu

Dr. Dixon Freeman

Campus Assistant Dean, NW Campus

706-291-0884

difreeman@augusta.edu

Chief & Directors

Daphne Norwood, MD

Chief of Academic Affairs & DIO

Credentials

Medical School: Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson
Residency: Hennepin County Medical Center
BA-Chemistry: Princeton University

Taylor Wilkey

GME Program Administrator

Taylor Wilkey serves as the GME Program Administrator. He is a Chattanooga native and a graduate of Kennesaw State University.

His hobbies include spending time with family, meeting new people, following various sports, grilling/smoking new recipes, and enjoying the weekends.

Jonathan Thompson, MD

Associate Program Director for Family Medicine
Simulation Laboratory Director
Site PCL Director

Dr. Thompson is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. He graduated from UT Chattanooga and earned his medical degree from East Tennessee State University. He completed his family medicine residency at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, TN.

He transitioned to graduate medical education to participate in and contribute to a collaborative community of learners. He has an abiding professional interest in prevention and wellness. He lives in Ringgold, GA with his wife and two daughters. He loves hiking, running or biking on trails and participates in a triathlon from time to time.

Lead Preceptors

Bryan Cheever, MD

Program Director for Family Medicine

Dr. Cheever is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who is passionate about providing quality, whole family care in wellness and disease management as well as enthusiasm for teaching and training future medical providers.
He graduated from Southern Adventist University and earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee. He did his residency in Family Medicine through the University of South Florida at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. His favorite activities include spending time with family and friends, traveling, and hiking or driving in the mountains.

Nimrat Bains, MD

Associate Program Director for Internal Medicine

Dr. Bains is a board-certified physician in internal medicine with interests in resident and medical student education as well as hospital medicine.
She attended the University of Alberta and earned her medical degree at the Medical University of the Americas in Nevis, West Indies. She completed her residency at East Tennessee State University.
Her hobbies include cooking, gardening, exercise, and reading fiction.

Ashish Kabir, MD

Neurology

Dr. Kabir completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. He has joined Juan Gonzalez, MD, at HPG-Neurology and diagnoses and treats issues related to the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles, including the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, seizure disorders, and strokes.

Adam Horne, MD

Pediatrics

John Beckner, MD

Psychiatry

Dr. John Beckner is a board-certified psychiatrist at Hamilton Physician Group- Behavioral Health in Dalton, GA. He attended medical school and completed his residency training in psychiatry at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Akron, Ohio.

“I enjoy getting to know my patients and watching them reach their goals,” says Dr. Beckner.

Dr. Beckner assists his patients with issues related to ADHD, alcohol and substance abuse, anger, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychosis, stress management, thought disorders, and more.

Angela Wood, MD

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Our mission is to provide each of our patients and their families with the highest level of compassionate care.

Rodovaldo Rodriguez, MD

Surgery

Rod Rodriguez, MD, FACS, is a board-certified general surgeon and breast specialist with Hamilton Physician Group-General Surgery. He attended medical school at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He trained under nationally recognized surgeons who were among the first in the U.S. to do stereotactic and ultrasound-guided breast biopsies.

Dr. Rodriguez was an early adopter of minimally invasive biopsy techniques, including office-based ultrasound-guided core biopsies. He also participated in the first image-guided breast biopsy course by the American College of Surgeons. He was among the first to do sentinel lymph node biopsies after receiving training at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.