Faculty & Staff

I grew up in Houston, Texas, and my dad hoped I would be a great sports star someday. Since I couldn’t hit a curveball or dunk a basketball, I decided to become a doctor.

After training and serving as an Air Force physician, I joined two other family docs here at St. Anthony Hospital in 1991 and have been here ever since. My wife, Sarah, and I have six children and 12 grandchildren. We love reading, traveling, finding new restaurants, attending Broadway musicals, and hanging out with family. Like a lot of Americans, we sometimes binge watch a British TV series. By the way, I’m not sure which Hogwarts’ house I belong to. My profile is somewhere between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. I love sports of all kinds but actually play very few. Since obtaining a master’s degree in bioethics several years ago, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about, writing about, and teaching clinical ethics. Finally, for me, medicine is a calling from God, and my goal is to follow Jesus, as best I can, in the way I treat my colleagues and patients.

My personal mission statement is “To facilitate shalom, wholeness, peace within myself and others and in organizations and communities.” I love having all the little ducks in row. My mom said even as a child I always had a plan. I love looking at processes and procedures to bring simplicity and peace for the good of the situation.

I have been blessed to have been a part of St. Anthony since 1995 when I came as an intern to now in my current role as Associate Program Director. It has been exciting to be a part of the process of bringing to fulfillment resident physicians callings.

My husband Robb and kids Joy and Matt are God’s gifts to me and my wholeness. Above all, I’m grateful that Christ made a way for me to find peace and to live out His calling for me.

I was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and grew up on a farm in what is today the Muscogee Nation Reservation. Following high school, I attended the University of Oklahoma where I studied psychology. I worked in bachelor-level positions in mental health before returning to the same institution to pursue graduate education in that field.

I completed my pre-doctoral internship at the Oklahoma Health Consortium splitting time between Goddard Health Services on campus at OU, and both the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital’s Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinic on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campus. Subsequent to the completion of my time at OU and OUHSC I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Oklahoma City Veteran Affairs Medical Center.

I love my work as a psychologist, particularly related to the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, trauma, and testing (ADHD, learning disabilities, personality, etc.). As a citizen of the Chickashsha (Chickasaw) Nation, multicultural issues are also a particularly important area of interest to me.

I’m a young–at–heart Family Doctor with a passion for special needs patients/Autism spectrum disorders, obstetrics, missions medicine, teaching young physicians and for life-long learning. My hubby Ted & I love family activities with our 3 children, we share in vocal music and brass band performance, travelling, cooking and going fishing.

I grew up in Oklahoma, and have done most of my professional training only a few miles away from where I now serve among Godly, amazing friends in medical ministry. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma with my Letters degree and then with an MD, I then got my Residency training right here, at the newly-formed St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency. It was a leap of faith into an amazing new venture: to serve Christ and to develop clinical skills alongside docs determined to make a difference, through faith and excellent clinical care. It worked! We prayed, trusted and worked side-by-side to build an amazing residency education site, which continues to grow and to thrive today.

After residency, I completed 16 years of missions medicine, 7 years overseas (Zambia, others,) international disaster relief & short-term missions, & 9 yrs in inner-city free clinic (Atlanta, GA) and substance abuse recovery programs (Dallas, TX and Washington, D.C.). After 7 more years teaching in an academic, rural FP program for OU, I have returned to my home at Saints, continuing this personal mission: To honor God with my life’s work, providing primary care among underserved populations, through excellence in clinical practice for my patients, with colleagues, clinical residents and students.

I grew up in Muskego, Wisconsin. I joined the United States Air Force right after high school graduation. I worked as a Medical Service Specialist in the Emergency Department for four years and was stationed in Minot, North Dakota while in the military. I went to College in Colorado and Physician Assistant School at Wichita State University College of Health Professions. I attended medical school in Tulsa at OSU and Family Medicine Residency at Hillcrest Health Center in Oklahoma City. My special interests are in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Medicolegal Medicine and Graduate Medical Education. My wife, Darlina, and I have one son and 3 grandchildren.

I was raised in Oklahoma City after moving from North Carolina at a young age. I graduated from Baylor University and then went to OU for medical school, where I was part of the community medicine track. I went to the University of Washington in Seattle, WA for residency and then worked at a Critical Access Hospital and Rural Health Clinic in Grand Coulee, WA (Population 1257). My family and I decided to move back to our roots, and I joined SSM Family Medicine Residency. I have a wide variety of interests in medicine which include rural health, teaching, MOUD and POCUS.

Outside of medicine I have too many hobbies to name, but I am certain we have something in common. I especially like spending time with my wife and children, cycling/running and trying not to kill my beehive.

I was born and raised in south Oklahoma City. I graduated from MIT with a degree in Chemistry and completed medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. After completing residency at Via Christi Family Medicine Residency in Wichita, KS, I returned to Oklahoma. I worked for two years in Chickasha, OK seeing patients in the clinic and nursing home, and doing colonoscopies prior to joining St. Anthony faculty. My clinical interests include inpatient medicine, women's health, and bedside ultrasound. My research interests include clinical informatics and global health.

Outside of work, I like to spend time with my family. That includes my husband Francisco, my two children, Carmen and Samuel, my parents Patti and John, and our dog Katie. My husband is from Mexico, so we frequently travel there to see family. When time allows, I enjoy playing music, gardening, birdwatching, and enjoying the outdoors.

I was born in southern California and raised in Oklahoma. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1993 and completed a Family Medicine residency in the US Navy at Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, California. I served at the Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan before returning home to Norman, Oklahoma in June of 2000 and starting with the St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency program.

I am married with five children, now grown, and three grandchildren. My grandfather completed an internship at St. Anthony Hospital in 1939. My special interests in Family Medicine include inpatient medicine, obstetrics, and point of care ultrasound.

Outside of residency interests include interfaith dialogue, social justice, family history research, swimming, cycling & running.

I grew up in Richardson, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas. I did my undergraduate studies at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, where I received my Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology. I went to Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies, for medical school and completed my residency in Family Medicine in Waco, Texas. After graduating residency, I moved to the rural town of Poteau, Oklahoma, (est. population 8,520). During my time in Poteau, I was able to continue doing surgical obstetrics, inpatient and outpatient medicine, nursing home, and I became the medical director for two home health companies and a hospice.

After working in Poteau for three years and being on the verge of burnout, I moved to Oklahoma City and joined a small private practice where I continued to practice full scope family medicine, but on a smaller scale. I first started working with residents in 2012 as an associate faculty member with the Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program in OKC. During this time, I quickly realized how much I enjoyed teaching and training residents. So much so, that I became full-time faculty with the St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency program in 2017. My areas of interest in family medicine include obstetrics, POCUS and inpatient medicine. I am married with three children, ages 10, 8, and 6. I enjoy cycling, mountain biking, camping, and most of all spending time with my family.

I grew up in central New Jersey and thought I’d stay a Jersey girl for the rest of my life… However, God had other plans, starting with undergrad in Steubenville, OH, then medical school at Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in eastern TN, and family medicine residency here at SSM Health – St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. Now, I am proud to have become one of the program faculty and teach our physicians in training while continuing to practice full spectrum family medicine. Special interests include obstetrics, OMT, and NaProTECHNOLOGY restorative women’s health.

Outside of work, I enjoy staying active, delving ever deeper into my Catholic faith, and traveling. My husband and I have two children.

I was born in Tulsa and raised on a small farm, with 3 siblings and 4 step siblings. I attended the University of Tulsa as a philosophy major, and then OSU College of Osteopathic medicine, graduating in 1992. I have been teaching and practicing Osteopathy since graduating from my Family Practice Residency at Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans in 1995. After a few years in resident education in South Dakota, and a manipulation practice in New Orleans, I spent 11 years with the VA. I joined SAFM in 2011 part time, and now am enjoying full time faculty and director of Osteopathic Education since 2018.

On the weekends, my husband of 25 years and I run a small cattle ranch west of OKC, where we enjoy the sunsets over the hill where we were married. I have a son age 35 who visits often from Ft. Worth, and a daughter age 23, and we enjoy activities on the farm together. We play music together, go shooting, practice martial arts and train new heifers to be part of the herd! We see our ranch as a place where our family and friends can have sanctuary from the busy life in the city, promoting wellness and longevity through creativity and self-care (exercise, nutrition, relaxation, and creative repurposing).

tiana.isley@ssmhealth.com
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