Teresa Chavez, MD and nurse practitioner Kimberly Morris-Windisch, managers of Arthritis Specialists of Northern Nevada, have joined Saint Mary’s Medical Group.
Dr. Chavez previously practiced rheumatology at TLC Rheumatology in Carson City for 13 years and served as chairperson on the Advisory Association for Arthritis Care for the State of Nevada for two years.
She studied medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX and completed her residency training in internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis. She then went on to complete her rheumatology fellowship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, N.M.
Morris-Windisch was a rheumatology nurse practitioner at Arthritis Specialists of Northern Nevada for nearly thirteen years. She also was an internal medicine nurse practitioner and family medicine nurse practitioner in northern Nevada for a combined three years and an echocardiography technologist at Kaiser Permanente of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif. for five years.
Morris-Windisch earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif. and her Bachelor of Science from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich.
