Experienced Urgent Care & Family Doctor, Veteran

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Emily C. Clay is a board-certified Family Physician with more than 25 years of clinical experience in urgent care, family medicine, emergency medicine, residency education, and military medicine. She graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in 2000 and completed Family Medicine residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center in 2003. She has been board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 2003 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Clay currently practices 0.85 full time equivalent as an Urgent Care Physician with Providence Medical Group in Olympia and Lacey, Washington, where she provides care for patients of all ages in high-volume urgent care settings since 2021. Her clinical responsibilities include acute illness management, musculoskeletal injuries, cardiovascular evaluation, acute mental health assessment, laceration repair, splinting, foreign body removal, gynecologic procedures, toenail procedures, and EKG and radiologic interpretation. She also works per diem in pediatric urgent care with Multicare Mary Bridge Pediatric Urgent Care, and precepts at local residency programs. Throughout her career, Dr. Clay has practiced full-spectrum family medicine, including outpatient care, inpatient medicine, women’s health, newborn care, pediatrics, geriatrics, preventive medicine, and chronic disease management. Previous positions include family medicine physician roles with Madigan Army Medical Center, Providence Medical Group, Moscow Medical Clinic, and the Department of the Army. Her procedural experience includes IUD and Nexplanon insertions/removals, skin procedures, circumcisions, endometrial biopsies, colposcopy, joint injections, and obstetric care. She also owned and operated a Direct Primary Care practice in Idaho, managing both the clinical and operational aspects of a membership-based medical practice. Dr. Clay served as an Active Duty Army physician 2000-2007, and deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom as a Battalion Surgeon with the 3rd Infantry Division 2005-2006. During deployment, she provided emergency and trauma care to soldiers, contractors, and civilians, including airway management, wound care, emergency stabilization, musculoskeletal injuries, and acute mental health care. She also worked for several years as a rural Emergency Department physician at a critical-access hospital in Georgia, managing emergency presentations for patients of all ages with limited staffing resources. Medical education and mentorship have remained central throughout Dr. Clay’s career. She served as Residency Teaching Faculty at the MACH Family Medicine Residency Program at Fort Benning, Georgia, where she taught inpatient, outpatient, obstetric, and procedural family medicine. She received “Teacher of the Year” awards in both 2010 and 2011. She has held faculty appointments with the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and continues to teach residents, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nursing staff, and medical assistants in both urgent care and residency clinic settings. Dr. Clay has participated in hospital case review, ethics, pharmacy, and sexual assault response committees and has experience with internal hospital-system case reviews and quality improvement activities. She has authored peer-reviewed publications on postpartum depression, congestive heart failure, and orthostatic hypotension and has delivered professional presentations on perioperative cardiac evaluation and dementia care. Her professional background combines extensive clinical experience, procedural expertise, military service, physician education, and multidisciplinary collaboration across urgent care, primary care, emergency medicine, and academic medicine. She is currently expanding her work into medical expert witness review and consultation.