Erica Casey, MD, MPH

Hello! My name is Erica Casey. I am from the small town of Gassville, AR, which is near the better known town of Mountain Home. Being so close to Branson, I spent much of my childhood running around in Silver Dollar City, and Springfield was our go-to for the next level up from Chuck E Cheese: Springfield’s Incredible Pizza Co. Visiting the area was always a highlight of my youth, and I’m thrilled to be back for both work and play.

I attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where I couldn’t make up my mind on what I wanted to study and ended up earning three degrees as a result. I studied biology, chemistry, and Spanish, along with a couple of study abroad adventures in Spain to improve my fluency for my future patients. I attended medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Throughout my training, I was drawn to a little of everything and wanted to keep those bits of everything in my future career. More importantly, I was wholeheartedly all in for the patient-centered, relationship-driven field that is Family Medicine. Along the way, I took courses to complete my Master of Public Health along with my MD. It’s paramount to understand families and even communities beyond the scope of medical sciences, and earning my MPH has helped me establish a default holistic approach that allows me to do just that.

Outside of medicine, you may find me curled up on the couch watching a K-drama with my two adopted fur babies, Abu and Tsuki. If you’re not a cat person, I bet they would change your mind! I also love cycling, exploring both musical and food genres with the love of my life, and I have recently started channeling my inner grandma and taken up knitting and crocheting.

I am so happy to train alongside the most supportive, welcoming colleagues I could imagine. Their mutual passion for lifestyle medicine, behavioral health, and practicing full-scope family medicine will no doubt provide me the toolkit to become the best, most compassionate family physician I can be.