Saint Francis Medical Partners recently welcomed Keith R. Thomae, MD, a board-certified general surgeon, who joined Drs. Hugh Francis, III, Benjamin Gibson, IV, Alan Hammond, Joshua Katz, Melvin Payne, and Moriah Wright at Memphis Surgery Associates, a part of Saint Francis Medical Partners.

As a general surgeon with more than two decades of experience, Thomae specializes

in performing a wide range of surgical procedures, including thyroidectomy, abdominal, inguinal and ventral hernia, intestinal obstruction, and gastrointestinal hemorrhage, among many other conditions. He is also trained in performing minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery procedures, such as laparoscopic appendectomy and laparoscopic gall bladder removal.

Thomae joined Saint Francis from National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs,

Arkansas, where he served as Medical Director of the NPMC Ambulatory Surgical Center. Before that, he was affiliated with Terre Haute Regional Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana, and with BJC and SSM hospitals in Missouri.

Thomae earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh and his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He completed his residency in General Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.