Herring, Jennifer, NP

Katherine Garcia, MSN, NP-C is a compassionate and highly detail-oriented Nurse Practitioner with three years of experience in diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of gastroenterology patients in an outpatient and inpatient setting. Katherine received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing and her Masters of Science in Family Nurse Practitioner from Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. As a board certified Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Katherine has over 16 years of clinical experience providing post-op medical-surgical care to patients in a rehabilitation unit, treating patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal illnesses in a hospital unit, providing clinical coordination in an endoscopy unit, and obtaining history and physicals from diverse patient populations in a fast-paced gastrointestinal practice. Katherine is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Sonie Clayton, NP, is a board certified nurse practitioner with over 20 years of clinical experience. She has a clinical background in gastroenterology, oncology, orthopedics, emergency medicine and acute care. She has prior academic teaching experience in a BSN program. She serves as a clinical preceptor for nurse practitioner students enrolled in a MSN nursing program. Clayton is a self-motivated, independent nurse practitioner with strong clinical skills.

LaShanda Jones, MSN, FNP-C, is a board-certified nurse practitioner earning her Masters of Nursing majoring in Family Nurse Practitioner from the American Sentinel College of Nursing and Health Science at Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut. She received her BSN degree from Auburn University at Montgomery, after receiving her ASN at Chattahoochee Valley Community College in Phenix City, AL. LaShanda started her nursing career in 2004 after receiving her LPN degree from West Georgia Technical College in LaGrange, Ga. She is board certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). LaShanda is licensed in the state of Georgia and Alabama as an advanced practice provider. She has a total of 22 years of nursing experience in the hospital setting including ICU, Orthopedics, Cardiac/Telemetry, PCU, and medical surgical unit. LaShanda specializes in family medicine with a primary focus of gastroenterology in the adult population.