New faculty join UMMC academic ranks
Published on Monday, January 27, 2025
Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff.
Olivia C. Burch
Olivia C. Burch, a family nurse practitioner at Southern Diabetes Care in Florence, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an instructor in the School of Nursing.
Burch received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2015 and earned her Master of Science in Nursing in 2019 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
She worked previously as a registered nurse in the Children’s Emergency Department at UMMC; in the telemetry unit/cardiac step-down unit at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg; and in the emergency department at Magee General Hospital in Magee. Before joining Maxem Health, she served as a family nurse practitioner at Family Care Magee in Magee.
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Dr. Angie Morris
Dr. Angie Morris, recently an associate degree nursing instructor at the Tupelo branch of Itawamba Community College, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of nursing-education in the School of Nursing.
Morris earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus and her Master of Science in Nursing-Nurse Educator at the Alcorn State University campus in Natchez before receiving her Doctor of Nursing Practice-Nursing Education in 2018 from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Before joining Itawamba Community College, she worked as a critical care nurse at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo and then at NMMC’s Baldwyn nursing facility as a staff nurse; psychiatric nurse at North Mississippi State Hospital in Tupelo; adjunct faculty member, online instructor/evaluator, in the RN-to-BSN Program for MUW; online evaluator in the MSN Education Program of Utah-based Western Governors University; site evaluator for the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing; and nurse educator for Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI).
Morris, who has earned several faculty awards, is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Her list of continuing education courses is extensive.
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Dr. Ted M. Roth
Dr. Ted M. Roth, recently the director of urogynecology at Beacon Medical Group-Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, and an adjunct clinical professor for the Indiana University School of Medicine, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chief of the Division of Urogynecology in the School of Medicine.
Board-certified in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, Roth received his medical degree in 1996 from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, New York. He completed an internship in general surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver before completing further training in obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and in reconstructive pelvic surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Roth, who has earned several honors as a clinician and faculty member, has at least three dozen scientific publications/presentations to his credit, along with a number of invited presentations. He is the co-author of eight book chapters.
A member of the American Urogynecologic Society, he has served as a reviewer for such professional journals as Frontiers in Digital Health, Surgical Oncology, Neuromodulation, the Journal of Urology, the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, the International Urogynecology Journal and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Female Pelvic Medicine and Surgery (Urogynecology).