Program Director – Elizabeth Butcher, MD, MPH & TM

Elizabeth Butcher joined the Harnett Health Internal Medicine Residency Program in June 2021 as the Assistant Program Director. Dr. Butcher received her medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine and a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from Tulane University. She completed her Internal Medicine residency, including a fourth year chief, at Cone Health and an Internal Medicine fellowship at Geisinger Health System. After spending time in a traditional Internal Medicine private practice in eastern NC, she returned to academics and the Cone Health Internal Medicine Residency Program, joining the faculty and serving as the residency clinic’s medical director from 2010 to 2021. Her academic interests including teaching, caring for underserved populations, and coaxing useful clinic reports from EPIC. Although a native West Virginian, Dr Butcher now considers NC her home.  She enjoys visiting her family on the family farm and teaching her nieces to bake.