Cherry Graves

Premier Women's Health is a full OB/GYN office in Gulfport, with two physicians and Graves as its women's health nurse practitioner. She grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and trained in a dual family and women's health nurse practitioner program at UNC Chapel Hill, doing clinical rotations at Duke in maternal-fetal medicine and labor and delivery triage. She credits the two physicians she works beside for her training, and says caring for women at every stage of life is what she found most rewarding. Her own stated clinical interests are wellness and prevention, adolescent health, diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome, so the menopause side of the work comes from the practice rather than from a focus she names herself. For menopause the practice offers hormone therapy and bone health screening, and it runs a separate wellness arm built around bioidentical hormone pellets, inserted under the skin and meant to last four to six months, with hormone labs drawn about a month after each insertion. Care is in person only, and new patients start by filling out a packet from the site.

NP, MSCP