Whitney Essex, Dr. Hannah Wenger

Whitney Essex, MSN, FNP-BC, received her Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2011 and is board certified in family practice by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center. Whitney has been a Nurse Practitioner with Cherokee Nation Health Services since 2012 and works in the Infectious Diseases Department where she coordinates the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Elimination Program and co-directors the Ending the HIV Epidemic Program. Whitney assists in the maintenance of a general infectious diseases clinical service, providing primary care for HIV, HIV-PrEP, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases related patients. She also serves as faculty for several infectious diseases-related virtual ECHO clinics across Indian Country.

Hannah Wenger, MD, is a General Internist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) who obtained her undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.  Hannah completed an internal medicine residency and clinical medical ethics fellowship at the University of Chicago followed by a rural health fellowship at MGH.  As a fellow and faculty member at MGH, Dr. Wenger has worked since 2018 as a primary care doctor and hospitalist for the Sicangu Lakota Oyate on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota while also providing primary and consultative care for gender-expansive people in the greater Boston area through MGH’s Transgender Health Program. Her interests include Two Spirit and LGBTQ health, hepatitis C, and clinical ethics.