Our Team

Doctor Rebekah S. Corey, DNP, APN, FNP-BC, started her nursing education at Chattanooga State and received her Associate Degree in 1994. She proceeded straight into the Bachelor of Nursing program at Southern University, graduating with a BSN in 1995. Clinical practice was acquired on the medical/surgical floor at Erlanger Health System form 1995 to 1999. During this time, she attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and graduated from the Family Nurse Practitioner program in April 1999. Dr. Corey began practice as a GI Nurse Practitioner under the medical direction of Richard Krause, MD, with the Center for Digestive Disorders. After Dr. Krause retired in 2006, she continued patient care in gastroenterology at Galen Medical Group, with Munford Yates as her medical director. In 2011, Dr. Corey entered into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s first Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) and graduated in December of 2012.During this time she started her own independent GI practice, Digestive Care and Management. Dr. Richard Krause was once again her medical director and mentor. While working with Dr. Krause in 1999, Rebekah had implemented in-house infusions for Crohn’s and Colitis patients, a process she transitioned to Galen in 2006. She has continued IV infusions for her private GI patients and has expanded the treatment to cover autoimmune diseases.