About Dr. Smith

Dr. Benjamin Smith was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and has resided on the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 2010.  He is a summa cum laude graduate of Mississippi State University and then received his MD degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2010.  Dr. Smith joined the United States Air Force in 2006 and did his residency in internal medicine at Keesler Air Force Base.  After completing residency in 2013, he remained at Keesler as part of the teaching faculty in the Internal Medicine Clinic and served as the Outpatient Medical Director. Following 7 years of active duty service, Dr. Smith transitioned to the Air Force Reserves where he continues to serve.   In 2017, he became a full-time hospitalist for Gulfport Memorial Hospital and was also elected as a Fellow in the American College of Physicians. At Memorial, Dr. Smith serves as the Medical Director of the Utilization Management Committee and Co-Medical Director of the hospitalist group. 

 He is married to Dr. Mandi Smith and they have two children, Addison and Paxton.

About Dr. Tuli

Dr. Tuli received her medical degree and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then practiced Internal Medicine in the United States Air Force for several years prior to completing a Hematology-Oncology fellowship and specialty training in bone marrow transplant at Wilford Hall Medical Center/Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas.  In 2007 she moved to Mississippi as faculty for the Keesler Medical Center Internal Medicine residency program. Since 2009 she has been practicing hematology-oncology at Memorial Hospital of Gulfport. She has served as faculty for Merit Health Wesley Internal Medicine Residency program since 2016 and the Memorial Family Practice residency of Gulfport since 2021.

About Dr. Allen

Dr. Summer Allen completed medical school, residency, and fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). Originally from Dallas, she completed her undergraduate degree in Texas and taught school for several years before deciding to pursue a medical career. She attended UMMC and graduated medical school in 2010, finished her fellowship in pulmonary critical care in 2016, and was chief fellow her last year in school. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, and Critical Care.  She currently works as a pulmonologist and intensivist at Memorial Health System and Merit Health in Biloxi. Her passion is using navigational bronchoscopy to biopsy lung nodules and diagnose lung cancer at an early stage. Dr. Allen presented at the CHEST conference in Nashville, discussing lung biopsies using different navigational systems. Dr. Allen also presented at the American Thoracic Society in Washington, DC, discussing navigational systems to diagnose interstitial lung disease.

She lives in Biloxi with her two daughters and two dogs.  She enjoys watching her daughters play sports and traveling.