INDIANAPOLIS –
Monica L. Joyner, MD, has been appointed medical director for Wound Care
Specialists, a practice recently established by Franciscan Physician Network.
She has been
affiliated with the Franciscan St. Francis Health Wound Care Institute as
physician of hyperbaric medicine since 2008. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a
medical approach using a pressure chamber to enhance and speed the healing of
wounds and other conditions.
A Fellow and certified
by the Academy of Physicians in Wound Healing and the American Board of Plastic
Surgeons, Dr. Joyner previously served as executive director and director of
education for the Indianapolis-based MedTech College, where she also held
various faculty positions. Prior to that, she was in private practice as a
plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
Dr. Joyner received
her undergraduate degree in psychobiology from Yale University and earned her
medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she
completed a residency in general surgery. She also completed a plastic surgery
at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
She is a member of
the American Medical Association, Indiana State Medical Association,
Aesculapian Medical Society (Indianapolis), National Medical Association,
Health Volunteers Overseas (USA), Association for the Advancement of Wound Care
and American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Led by Central
Indiana Region President Isaac J. Myers II, MD, Franciscan Physician Network is
a multidisciplinary group of physicians throughout central Indiana. These
physicians offer a variety of primary care and specialty care services and all
practice at Franciscan St. Francis Health.
