MedWest-Haywood announced that neurologist Michael W. Vavra, MD is joining Mountain Medical Associates in Clyde on Aug. 27.

Mountain Medical Associates is an established, multi-specialty health care practice that focuses on health care maintenance and preventative medicine through internal medicine services.

At Mountain Medical Associates, Vavra joins Filiberto Colón II, MD; Steven S. Crider, MD; Najeeb O. Ghaussy, MD; Jay W. Grosse, MD; John A. LaFata, DO; Harry G. Lipham, MD, PA; Craig H. Linger, MD; registered nurse and board-certified adult nurse practitioner Leslie D. McDowell; Henry P. Nathan, MD; Ditte G. Phillips, MD; Howard W. Palay, MD; and Kate T. Queen, MD, PA.

Prior to joining Mountain Medical Associates, Vavra worked as a neurologist with Tri-State Mountain Neurology ...