Assistant Professor
Dr. Tayler is an Assistant Professor at the MSU-Hurley Pediatric Public Health Initiative in the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health. She completed post-residency training as the second Alice Hamilton Scholar and is currently working on her Master of Public Health from MSU. Dr. Tayler received her medical degree from Albany Medical College in 2018 and completed her Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency in 2022 at Albany Medical Center. She works clinically at Hurley Medical Center, working both inpatient and outpatient in both internal medicine and pediatrics, in addition to being a core faculty for the IM, Med/Peds, and Pediatric residencies there.
Her passion is advocacy and community engagement, particularly around tobacco and novel nicotine products, cannabis, and substance use disorder. She serves as the director of the Community and Advocacy Rotation for Hurley Medical Center residents and works closely with a number of different organizations in the Flint and Genesee County community to inform medical practice locally to meet the needs of the community and engage medical providers with the upstream and broad social determinants of health. Through this, she has become the Genesee Intermediate School District Medical Director and seeks to foster connections between the medical system and the surrounding schools to improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Tayler additionally has a strong passion for legislative advocacy and leveraging medical provider expertise and experience in changing public policy. In doing this work, she serves as the co-chair in several groups, including the state-wide coalition Keep MI Kids Tobacco-Free Alliance, the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians Health and Public Policy Committee. Over the past two years, she has worked closely with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to inform best policies around youth tobacco use, has provided in-person and virtual testimony for legislation over ten times, and has been featured in news articles and media segments over 30 times to discuss various public health and health care related topics.
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