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Meet our new clinicians Welcome to these new members of our clinical team in the Midlands and Upstate. The physicians are or will be in the process of being approved for faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina Columbia or Greenville – an academic health center – depending on their location.
MIDLANDS General Pediatrics/Inpatient Pediatrics Thomas Black, MD, received his medical degree from Jacobs School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo, New York, and completed a residency at State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Black was a residency director while at Buffalo, and he enjoys working with residents and medical students in his current position in General & Hospital Pediatrics. He can be reached at 803-434-7945. Manoj Nepal, MD, works at the Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center and is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. Board certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and in General Pediatrics, Dr. Nepal received his medical degree from the College of Medical Sciences Bharatpur, Nepal, followed by an Otolaryngology residency at TU Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. He then completed a Pediatric Residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York. Before coming to Prisma Health, he was an assistant professor of pediatric hospital medicine at Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, Texas. (His spouse recently joined Prisma Health as a pediatric nephrologist.) He can be reached at 803-434-6155.
Pediatric Cardiology Ron Wells, MD, earned a medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, followed by a Pediatrics residency at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, and a Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital/ Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Before coming to Prisma Health, Dr. Wells served as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist for the U.S. Army for 21 years, with his last appointment being chief of pediatric cardiology at Madigan Army Medical Center. He can be reached at 803-434-7940.
Pediatric Gastroenterology Cory Jones, MD, earned his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Jones then completed a Pediatrics residency at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and a fellowship at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. He can be reached at 803-434-8450. Emily Giddens, DNP, PPCNP, provides consultations for a specific array of digestive system and associated nutritional problems. Giddens earned a BSN and her DNP at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She worked as an RN in a NICU for six years before joining Prisma Health. Giddens serves on the social media committee for the state chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. She can be reached at 803-434-8450.
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Taylor Padgett, MPH, PA-C, received her MPH from Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, with a concentration on health behavior and health promotion. She also received a Master of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia. Padgett can be reached at 803-434-3533.
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