About Us

About Medical Specialists of Central Kentucky
Care of the infected patient and the traveler.

Who We Are

In 1989, Rebecca Shadowen, M.D. and Susie Skea, LPN formed the first Infectious Disease practice in southcentral Kentucky. Since that time, we have continued to serve the community and region. We remain stable and active in all areas of infectious disesases and travel medicine. Dr. Shadowen is the epidemiologist at both our local hospitals. Melinda Pendley, ITS has been a welcomed addition since 2003 assisting in the office and with billing services. Lisa Hays, A.R.N.P. joined Dr. Shadowen in 2004 and has added another dimension to the practice, facilitating patients in the hospital and the office. Medical Specialists of Central Kentucky, P.S.C. continues to enjoy the special people of southcentral Kentucky.
 
Our Mission

Medical Specialists of Central Kentucky, P.S.C. is a private service corporation dedicated to provide infectious disease specialty level care to its patients and area health care providers. This care includes epidemiology services, travel medicine, and clinical research aimed to improve the oucomes of our patients.
 
Our Team

  • Susie Skea, L.P.N. has been with us since 1989 and is truely a great contact for patients. She came from a background in emergency medicine before joining Dr. Shadowen. If she does not have the answer, she will find it for you!  She has been working with Dr. Shadowen for 18 years, making her a valuable resource.

  • Melinda Pendley, I.T.S. has been with us since 2003. She is the sweet voice you hear with a touch of the country! She does our billing, answers the phone, and helps with patient care.  She is just a delightful person! We are very glad to have her, you will be also once you have had contact!

  • Lisa Hays, A.R.N.P. started with Dr. Shadowen in 2004. At first we were not sure what to do with her, but now we know we could not function without her! She has a long history of working in healthcare in Bowling Green, her home. She has worked in nursing, nursing administration, home care, radiology, and the emergency department. Once she decided to obtain her nurse practitioner degree, she landed here. She will take the plan for your care and carefully assure it is carried out with attention to detail. She often screens our travelers and keeps in contact with Dr. Shadowen constantly. She is a great communicator as well.

  • Rebecca D. Shadowen, M.D. practices Infectious Diseases, Travel Medicine and Healthcare Epidemiology. She is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. She is the director of infection control and Hospital Epidemiologist at the Medical Center and Greenview Regional Hosptial in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Dr. Shadowen holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green where she was a Who's Who graduate and a medical degree from the University of Louisville. She completed her residency in internal medicine as resident of the year Kansas City, Missouri.  This was followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where her publications and grant funding involved both bench and clinical research. She has been an active medical educator for her region, continuing in clinical publications, investigational new drugs, and a HIV educator for the Kentucky Cabinet for Human Resources. She has been elected to fellowship in the Society of Hosptial Epidemiologists of America and honored as one of America's Top Physicians since 2002.

  • Dr. Shadowen is an active member of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, the American Society for Microbiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of America, the Kentucky Medical Association, and the Warren County Medical Society. Her clinical research interests include antimicrobial agents, bacterial and viral infections, antibiotic resistance, effective empiric antibiotic therapies and hospital epidemiology. She has 2 children and celebrates her 25th year of marriage in 2006.

Cryptococcus neoformans-a fungus

 

 

Cytomegalovirus protease-
Protein enzyme of a common virus.

 

 

Tuberculosis-up close!

 

 

Borrelia burgdorferi-Lyme Disease

 

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