Women's Leadership Alliance Hosts Spring Lunch-and-Learn
May 18, 2017
The Women's Leadership Alliance of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama held a sold-out Lunch-and-Learn May 18, hosted by Capstone Bank, featuring speaker Dr. Caroline Day. Dr. Day spoke on the topic of work-life balance, and provided attendees with a number of suggestions and options to increase wellness in their lives.
A physician for more than 25 years, Dr. Day is board certified in Family Medicine and graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, South Africa, in 1988. She gained extensive experience in pediatrics, urgent care, psychiatry and care of the elderly for a number of years. She also worked in the United Kingdom locuming in various hospitals in and around London. She completed the Masters in Family medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand while still working in her own private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She and her family relocated to Tuscaloosa in 2002 to further her husband’s career and she took a sabbatical to look after their 3 young children. In order to fulfill the requirements to practice medicine in the USA she completed the USMLE board exams. In 2008 she started the 3-year residency program at the University of Alabama which she successfully completed in 2011. She worked at American Family Care for 18 months before opening Family Practice at The Falls at the beginning of 2013. She is a member of the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Medical Association of Alabama and the American Academy of Anti-aging and Regenerative Medicine.
Her passion is preventive and integrative medicine and her desire is that her patients lead as full and healthy lives as possible. To this end she integrates traditional medicine with other modalities such as bio-identical hormone therapy and nutritional supplements. Her other interests include walking, yoga, movies, backing, afternoon tea, travel and spending time with family and friends. She loves living in Tuscaloosa and is a member of Capstone Church.