Faculty
Sherry Turner, D.O., MPH, FACOEP, serves as director of graduate medical education and is the program director for the Emergency Medicine Residency. Dr. Turner attended medical school at NOVA Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine in Davie, Florida and completed her emergency medicine residency at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, West Virginia. She is a member of the American College of Osteopathic Physicians, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Osteopathic Association.
Since 2011, Dr. Turner has served as adjunct clinical professor at the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the president of the Foundation for Osteopathic Emergency Medicine, which provides funding and sponsors research competitions in emergency medicine throughout the country.
Deepu Thoppil, M.D., serves as program director for the Internal Medicine Residency. Thoppil, a native of New Orleans, attended medical school at the Medical University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland and the Medical University of Lublin in Lublin, Poland. He attended a residency at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Kosana Simeunovic, M.D., is the internal medicine assistant program director. She was born and raised in Serbia and attended medical school at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade in Serbia and completed residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/James J. Peters in New York.
Kathy Greer is the internal medicine coordinator and is a native of Winnie, TX, but has been a Mississippian for most of her life. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi where she majored in education. Kathy was a high school educator for three years and has since been in office administration for more than twenty years. She and her husband have celebrated 26 anniversaries together and they have one son, three dogs and four cats. Kathy’s hobbies include reading, traveling, hosting parties and helping her son excel in his judo aspirations.