New faculty join UMMC academic ranks

Published on Monday, November 20, 2023

Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff. 

Dr. Jacqueline A. Fraiser

Dr. Jacqueline A. Fraiser, who recently earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice-Advanced Practice degree at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of nursing instruction in the School of Nursing.  

Previously, she earned her Family Nurse Practitioner degree in 2006 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 

Throughout her career, she has served as a Registered Nurse or Nurse Practitioner at a variety of health care centers and clinics, most recently as an NP at Nursemed LLC in Ripley. For several years, she was also a member of the adjunct faculty in the Associate Degree in Nursing program at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville.  

Fraiser has 18 years of experience in urgent care settings and family practice, and 11 years in maternal-newborn care, pediatric care, medical-surgical care and family care.  

She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.  

Dr. Margaret W. “Molly” Webb

Dr. Margaret W. “Molly” Webb, recently a dermatology resident at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of dermatology in the School of Medicine. 

She earned her medical degree in 2013 at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, where she then completed a residency in internal medicine. During her residency at UMMC, she was the recipient of the Dermatology Resident Teaching Award and the Dermatology Resident Professionalism Award, among other honors.  

A member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, she has been recognized throughout her academic and professional careers for her scholarship, leadership and professionalism. Her previous employment includes stints as an internal medicine hospitalist at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and as a bioethics clinical research assistant at the Emory University Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta.  

She has served as a teacher, mentor and advisor to residents, medical students and undergraduates in a variety of programs and as a member of a number of committees. Her record of volunteering is extensive and features medical mission work, and delivery of community health education classes and health clinic services; she has acted at times as an interpreter for Spanish-speaking patients. 

Webb has participated in research and quality improvement projects and has several manuscripts accepted for publication. She is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Physicians and American Medical Association.  

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Dr. Rose Kristine Tiangco

Dr. Rose Kristine Tiangco, recently a hospitalist at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of medicine-hospital medicine in the School of Medicine.  

After earning her medical degree in 2011 at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila, Philippines, she completed an internal medicine residency at Harlem Hospital Center in affiliation with Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.  

Tiangco has also served as a staff physician at HVill Hospital in the Philippines, and as a hospitalist at Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota.  

She is the recipient of a number of academic and professional service awards and has participated in a number of scientific oral presentations.   

Tiangco, who is board-certified in internal medicine, is a member of Becarios de Santo Tomas, the premier scholars’ organization of the University of Santo Tomas.