About Dr. Latack

Born in Michigan, Dr. Latack entered in the United States Air Force in 1995 where he served for 27 years. He received his MD from the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in nephrology and is a Fellow in the America College of Physicians and American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Latack moved to Mississippi in 2007 and served as Associate Program Director and Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency at Keesler Medical Center for 15 years.

About Dr. Conger

Dr. Conger is a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Born in Oklahoma City and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma, he moved to Texas to attend the university of Dallas, and earned his Medical Doctorate at the University of Texas at Houston.  Dr. Conger served in the United States Air Force for 21 years. During that time, he completed his internal medicine residency ID fellowship training at Wilford Hall Medical Center. During his time in the Air Force, Dr. Conger practiced medicine at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany, Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. His time in the Air Force also included four months at a theater hospital in Iraq.  Dr. Conger has been a Chief Resident and Associate Program Director for internal medicine residency programs at multiple institutions for many years, as well as an APD for The Air Force’s Infectious Diseases fellowship training program. Dr. Conger also has experience as the Infectious Diseases Consultant to the Surgeon General for Europe as well as the Infectious Diseases Consultant to the Surgeon General of the Air Force. Currently practicing medicine at Memorial Hospital, Gulfport, Dr. Conger is excited at the opportunity to develop internal medicine residency on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

About Dr. Cowart

Dr. Dasha Cowart was born in Hattiesburg, MS and raised in Stone County. She has resided with her family on the Gulf Coast since completing training in 2017. She completed her medical education at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, MS, and finished her training in Internal Medicine at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, MS. At Memorial, she serves as Internal Medicine Co-chair, Co-Medical Director of the hospitalist department, and also participates in numerous committees. She is married to Benjamin Cowart, a local realtor, and they have two children, Avery and Brooks.

About Dr. Baroudi

For over 25 years Dr Baroudi has been serving the residents of the Gulf Coast as an Interventional Cardiologist. He has done so both through Coast Heart Institute—a cardiology private practice he established in 1999 in Gulfport MS—and through working as a cardiology consultant at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, where he served terms as a Chief of Cardiology, a member of the Medical Executive Committee, a member of MQRC, and Director of the CHF Clinic. Dr. Baroudi obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Damascus School of Medicine, Damascus, Syria. He finished his residency in Internal Medicine and his cardiology fellowship from Case Western Reserve – MetroHealth and Mt. Sinai Medical center, Cleveland, OH. Dr. Baroudi is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention. Outside of his regular workload, Dr. Baroudi mentors both local and international medical students and Residents, and has started a multi-specialty clinic in Dubai, UAE.

About Dr. Borchelt

Mark D. Borchelt, MD, FACE, is an endocrinologist at the Memorial Endocrinology Clinic in Gulfport, Mississippi, and is serving as the principal investigator for the National Diabetes and Obesity Research Center in Tradition, Mississippi. He earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine of Northeastern Ohio Universities in Rootstown. Dr. Borchelt completed an internship and residency at Akron City Hospital in Ohio, followed by a

fellowship in endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology.

Dr. Borchelt is a member of the American Diabetes Association and the American College of Endocrinology. He has participated in research studies as a co-investigator, focusing on the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus. Dr. Borchelt is the recipient of numerous honors, including being listed as “Top Doc” at his former practice in Port St. Lucie, Florida.