Shawn
M. Taylor, MD, is a Lexington pediatrician, transplanted to Kentucky many
years ago from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Dr. Taylor graduated from the
Medical College of Ohio at Toledo in 1980, with several awards for leadership
and academic excellence. She then completed her Pediatric residency and chief
residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY. Since
completion of her Chief Residency in 1989, Dr. Taylor has been in general pediatric
practice in Lexington. After 16 years, Dr. Taylor felt God’s calling to
begin her own general pediatric practice, with the added flavor of international
adoptions. In addition to general pediatric medical care to all patients, Dr.
Taylor has an interest and desire to provide medical care for international
adoptees and their families, an area that she has worked in for over 10 years.
Along with her private practice, Dr. Taylor is presently the Director of the
International Adoption Clinic at the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital.
She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is board certified
with the American Board of Pediatrics.
Dr.
Bush is a native of Lexington. She graduated from Lafayette High School then
received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
TN. She returned to attend the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dr.
Bush remained at UK for her pediatric residency. She then joined the faculty
of UK as a pediatrician and clinical instructor. After four years at UK she
joined a private pediatric practice in Lexington. She is now excited to join
Dr. Taylor at A Caring Touch Pediatrics.
Elizabeth
Shoemaker, RN is a graduate of the University of Kentucky Lexington Community
College with an Associate Degree in Nursing. Upon graduation, she worked for
7 years at UK Children’s Hospital in the infectious pediatric disease
ward. For the past 18 years, she has worked with Dr. Shawn Taylor at a general
pediatrician’s office in Central Kentucky. She is a native Kentuckian
and married with a teenage son. She feels that children and families are a blessing
from God and should be treated with the utmost respect and tender loving care.
She considers it a privilege and an honor to help provide the best medical care
for your children and is very excited and looking forward to meeting each of
you.