About

Dr. Bomar scored in the top 7% of all physicians in the nation on her medical boards upon her graduation from Meharry Medical College while a wife, mom to a toddler, and stepmom of three. She was inducted in Alpha Omega Alpha in her junior year, and received multiple departmental awards. She went on to complete her internship in Internal Medicine at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and then completed two years of Radiology residency and 7 months of Nuclear Medicine residency at Vanderbilt Hospital.

While working as a resident physician in a highly competitive residency at Vanderbilt Hospital, Dr. Bomar developed a back injury that was expected to respond to fairly routine surgery. Rather than recovering, she became more and more debilitated, was prescribed a motorized reclining wheelchair and walker for mobility, and suffered intractable pain. As a shadow of her former self, her role as a patient was hard to accept. It would take eight years to receive a correct diagnosis and yet six more years for a treatment that would allow her to walk again and live with significantly less pain.

Along the way it was the support of faith, family, and friends, as well as the fruits of her research and the efforts of some innovative health providers that maintained her health even in the hardest of times. She is thankful to be on this side of the journey. (See televised video detailing that journey.) But the journey itself was valuable in that it would forever change the way she would practice medicine.