Dr. Waits currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Cahaba Medical Care, a Community Health Center (Federally Qualified Health Center) that started in 2004 in rural Bibb County, Alabama, and has since grown to serve with additional offices in Perry, Chilton, and Jefferson Counties. Together in 2013, he and Dr. Lacy Smith co-founded Cahaba Family Medicine Residency, where he serves as program director and DIO. He is a practicing, board-certified family medicine physician/obstetrician with active obstetric privileges at Bibb Medical Center and UAB Medical West. Dr. Waits earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He also completed an obstetrics fellowship at the University of Alabama, as well as residency training at In His Image Family Medicine Residency in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has a particular interest in health care policy and how it touches women and children in terms of maternity and infant care; the rural poor; healthcare access; and the care of the uninsured and underinsured.

Dr. Smith joined Cahaba Medical Care in 2010 and worked with Dr. Waits to transition CMC into a Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC), as well as assisted in co-founding Cahaba Family Medicine Residency (CFMR). She now serves as chief medical director and chief operations officer for CMC, associate program director of CFMR, and also has an active clinical practice. Originally from Montevallo, Alabama, she attended medical school at the University of Alabama, then went to residency at Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency. She has also assisted in publishing several national publications and has helped to successfully write numerous federal and state grants. In her spare time, she enjoys running, reading and college football. She currently resides in Randolph with her husband, Luke, and their five daughters, Audrey, Lydia, Natalie, Ainsley, and Blair.

Josh Elledge was born, raised and currently resides in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He attended Samford University for graduate school and completed the MSN course of study in 2016 and DNP course of study in 2019. Josh was subsequently certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. He has been married to his amazing wife, Elizabeth, since July 2012 and together they have a daughter, Zoe, and a son, Ezekiel (Zeke). "My goal in this residency is to assist in equipping and encouraging new NPs to become all God intends for them to be," he stated. “My ultimate goal is to simply love and obey the Lord God and His Son Jesus with all of my heart and in every aspect of my life. My true joy and peace in this life is found in Him.” Outside of work, he enjoys being with his family, playing basketball and softball, and cutting grass as well as anything else that allows him to stay healthy and in shape while having fun.

Dr. Bishop grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota and earned her undergraduate degree from North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota; however, Alabama has been her home for the past several years. She received her medical degree from William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. While in medical school, she rotated as a student at Cahaba Medical Care, where she was inspired to pursue a career in family medicine. She is a graduate of CFMR’s class of 2018 and recently began OB fellowship training with CMC. Outside of work, she enjoys running, swimming, cycling and spending time with her three children.