Katherine M. Vazquez

Katherine M. Vazquez, NP

Nurse Practitioner
Piedmont Healthcare
Piedmont Physicians Gastroenterology Columbus
1117 20th Street, 
Columbus, GA 
Accepting New Patients
Offers Telehealth

Piedmont Healthcare
Piedmont Physicians Gastroenterology Columbus
1117 20th Street, 
Columbus, GA 
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Overview

Katherine Garcia, MSN, NP-C is a compassionate and highly detail-oriented Nurse Practitioner with three years of experience in diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of gastroenterology patients in an outpatient and inpatient setting. Katherine received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing and her Masters of Science in Family Nurse Practitioner from Columbus State University in Columbus, GA.

As a board certified Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Katherine has over 16 years of clinical experience providing post-op medical-surgical care to patients in a rehabilitation unit, treating patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal illnesses in a hospital unit, providing clinical coordination in an endoscopy unit, and obtaining history and physicals from diverse patient populations in a fast-paced gastrointestinal practice. Katherine is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Her top areas of expertise are Opioid Induced Constipation, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH).

Graduate Institution
Columbus State University, 2018
Specialties
Nurse Practitioner
Licenses
Nurse Practitioner in GA
Board Certifications
American Academy Of Nurse Practitioners
Hospital Affiliations
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown
Languages Spoken
English
Spanish
Gender
Female

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Locations

Piedmont Physicians Gastroenterology Columbus
1117 20th Street, Columbus, GA 31901
Call: 706-324-6365

Additional Areas of Focus

Vazquez has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
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