McLeod Health welcomes new residents

McLeod Health Clarendon is pleased to welcome five new residents to the McLeod Family Medicine Rural Residency Program. The new physicians are Druid Atwell, DO; Sabrina Ivan, MD; Janee Perry, MD; Mithun Reddy, MD; and Edwin Shumaker, DO. The McLeod Family Medicine Rural Residency Program is a program at McLeod Health Clarendon designed to train the "physicians of tomorrow" in an effort to increase the availability of family medicine physicians for patients in the Pee Dee and other rural areas of South Carolina.

"The Residency Program's mission is to graduate skilled family physicians who will provide superior health care services to underserved areas of South Carolina," said Dr. Lisa Heichberger, site director for the McLeod Family Medicine Rural Residency Program in Clarendon.

Its mission is being fulfilled. In existence since 1980, there have been 300 graduates from the McLeod Family Medicine Residency program with 55 percent of them staying in South Carolina and the McLeod Health service area of Northeastern South Carolina and Southeastern North Carolina.

"We welcome our new residents and their families to the Pee Dee area," Heichberger said. "Expanding the McLeod Family Medicine training program into our community provides much-needed access to physicians, enhances recruitment efforts and affords physicians the opportunity to practice medicine in a small community setting."

These physicians will care for patients at the McLeod Primary Care Clarendon, 50 E. Hospital St. on the McLeod Health Clarendon campus. For information on becoming a new patient, call (803) 435-8828.