Dr. Mudon is a physician specializing in family medicine and working as a member of the core faculty at the CHI’s Brodes H. Hartley, Jr. Teaching Health Center. Dr. Mudon earned a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Spanish from the University of Denver and a Master’s Degree in Secondary Science Education from Lehman College. Dr. Mudon is also a graduate of A.T. Still University: Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the recipient of the Doris Ison Award for being involved in several health fairs, and outreach activities demonstrating a strong interest in the THC mission at Community Health of South Florida, Inc. She graduated as Chief Resident of the Family Medicine residency program in 2020.

Dr. Mudon was born with a rare metabolic condition known as Phenylketonuria. She grew up in a rural community in Western Colorado, and much of her healthcare as a child was available only by traveling halfway across the state to Denver. From a very young age, she learned the critical importance of providing healthcare to rural and underserved communities. Serving communities and providing compassionate and quality care have been her lifelong calling as a physician.

Dr. Mudon has lived in South Florida for several years, and she especially loves Miami’s amazing cuisine and cortaditos. She also enjoys traveling home to her family during Colorado’s snowy winters, cooking at home and binge-watching BBC series.

Kathleen Thermezy Etienne is a family nurse practitioner from the first cohort of Foreign-Educated Physicians to Bachelor in Nursing Sciences to Masters in Nursing Sciences program at Florida International University. She was a physician in her native country, Haiti, where she graduated in 1987 and completed her residency in surgery from 1988 to 1992.

After working a few years in Haiti as a surgeon in private practice, she became a volunteer practitioner in community programs and was responsible for the Emergency Medical Services at the World Health Organization. She completed a fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in France from 1996 to 1993. After, she went back to her country where she continued her practice until 2008 when she immigrated to the United States with her family.

In August 2010, she started the Nursing curriculum at FIU. She obtained her BSN/RN in 2012 and her MSN/FNP-BC in 2013. In January 2014, she joined CHI as a primary care provider and is at the same time a candidate for the Doctorate in Nursing Practice at FIU.

In her free time she enjoys reading, listening to music and traveling.

Dr. Elizabeth Philippe is CHI’s Chief of Family Medicine and the Designated Institutional Official. She is also the Program Director of Family Medicine Residency for The Brodes H. Hartley Jr. Teaching Health Center.

Dr. Philippe got hooked on helping people in underserved communities after graduating from the State University Medical School of Haiti in 1984. She discovered this passion when she was completing a one-year requirement in a disadvantaged area in Haiti. To further her goals, she pursued her studies at Yale University where she obtained a master’s degree in public health in 1986.

After working for a short period of time at the New York State Department of Health, Dr. Philippe returned to Haiti in 1987 to work as the Medical Director in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital’s Community Health Department.

In 1990, she served as the National Coordinator for the Haitian Ministry of Public Health’s Maternal and Child Health Program. Soon after, she joined the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization and was actively involved with its national immunization program.

In 1995, Dr. Philippe returned to the United States and enrolled at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as a fellow in a National Institute on Drug Abuse-sponsored program in epidemiology and prevention of substance abuse. Following graduation, she was accepted as a resident in the family medicine program at Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1999. A board-certified family medicine practitioner, Dr. Philippe completed her residency training in 2002 and then worked as an attending physician and preceptor at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

In 2005, she joined CHI as an attending physician and as the medical director for its school-based health program. She is fluent in English, French and Creole, with proficiency in Spanish. Dr. Philippe enjoys her work as a provider at CHI where she can work with underserved communities and different ethnic groups. She has an interest in HIV/AIDS and youth development programs.

She enjoys reading, classical guitar music, and community activities.

Dr. Linda Zambrana is the medical director for the Martin Luther King/Clinica Campesina Health Center. The family medicine doctor has been with CHI since 2003. She is passionate about caring for her patients and helping them live their best lives. Although she was born in the United States, she received her medical degree in 1988 from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua.

A year later, she returned to the United States in order to continue her passion for working in the medical field. She passed the examinations required to work as a registered medical sonographer in 1992 and became a physician assistant in 1993.

Dr. Zambrana provided medical care to patients as a physician assistant until June 2000. By then, she had already completed all the tests required to practice medicine in the United States. This allowed her to start residency training to become a board-certified family medicine physician.

After graduating in 2003, she became part of the medical team at Community Health of South Florida Inc. Since then, Dr. Zambrana has been working joyfully providing what she likes the most: helping patients from different cultures to be healthy and giving them the extra mile on medical and emotional support.