Chris Vass

Champions of Health Care 2024: Dr. Laura Witherspoon

Working with injured or ill children takes a special kind of nurse. Working with children who have suffered the unthinkable trauma of sexual abuse takes the nurses’ pledge to “devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care” to another level.

After more than three decades in exam rooms, procedure rooms, classrooms and board rooms, gastroenterologist Colleen Schmitt has seen it all. That’s a safe bet.

As a medical student at the University of Kentucky in the early 1970s, Dr. Susan McGuire was convinced of one thing - under no circumstances would she pursue psychiatry as her specialty.