When wildfires swept California in her second year of residency, Anita was working in the spinal cord injury department. They had to change protocols for their fragile patients, even though they were in a hospital during the wildfires. They changed pulmonary hygiene protocols, some had to have increased night hours on the ventilator. The smoky air affected them even in the hospital. Though she had always had environmental concerns, this experience instilled more passion.
Meet one of Montana’s newest doctors! Anita Taylor is a Physician Medicine and Rehabilitation physician (a psychiatrist) living with her husband, a biologist at Helena College, and her rescue cat “Bean.” She came from a family of mountaineers, so Montana seems like a fitting new home.
A physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor specializes in diagnosing and treating people of all ages with muscle, bone, and nervous system conditions that affect physical and mental abilities. Physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors are experts in preventing and minimizing disability. They provide long-term or lifelong care for such conditions as stroke, sports injuries and spinal cord injuries.
Anita hails from Colorado, but completed medical school and residency at Stanford. She is on the Public Policy Committee with the Association of Academic Physiatrists. She is the representative to the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health for the AAP.
She is currently drafting a white paper that will be sent to all PMR docs in the U.S..
and they are working to get a climate change committee. She wants to meet other climate advocates in Helena and is willing to write, give presentations, or perform other tasks to further climate awareness and action.
When she is not seeing patients, expect to see Anita hiking, backpacking, or snowshoeing.
Meet one of Montana’s newest doctors! Anita Taylor is a Physician Medicine and Rehabilitation physician (a psychiatrist) living with her husband, a biologist at Helena College, and her rescue cat “Bean.” She came from a family of mountaineers, so Montana seems like a fitting new home.
A physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor specializes in diagnosing and treating people of all ages with muscle, bone, and nervous system conditions that affect physical and mental abilities. Physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors are experts in preventing and minimizing disability. They provide long-term or lifelong care for such conditions as stroke, sports injuries and spinal cord injuries.
Anita hails from Colorado, but completed medical school and residency at Stanford. She is on the Public Policy Committee with the Association of Academic Physiatrists. She is the representative to the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health for the AAP.
She is currently drafting a white paper that will be sent to all PMR docs in the U.S..
and they are working to get a climate change committee. She wants to meet other climate advocates in Helena and is willing to write, give presentations, or perform other tasks to further climate awareness and action.
When she is not seeing patients, expect to see Anita hiking, backpacking, or snowshoeing.