Natalie Hodge MD FAAP, a Lone Oak High School alumnus, has 10 years of experience practicing pediatric medicine in St. Louis, Mo. She graduated from the University of Kentucky Medical School in 19995 and then Completed Washington University's program at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1998. Dr. Hodge spent three years developing and refining the personalized house call platform creating cloud-based technology, e commerce, and marketing platform solutions for mobile medical practice.

Dr Hodge was a featured speaker at the Mayo Clinic's Transform Symposium in '09 and has been named by Brian Dolan of Mobi Heath News as " The First I Phone Doctor" She is the author of The Personal Pediatrics Primer for the Progressive Parent. Dr. Hodge's special interests in pediatrics include nutrition, prevention and the potential for the internet to strengthen physician patient relationships.

Dr. Hodge is a member of the Health care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a Fellow of the Academy of Pediatrics' Quality and Innovation Network, and a founding member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Participatory Medicine is an emerging group of engaged patients and physicians who believe that mutual trust and understanding as well as use of media, health IT strengthens the physician patient relationship and provides for better care.
Dr Hodge is a selected content provider for Organized Wisdom, a site of peer curated health content on the web.

Dr Hodge is excited to be home in Western Kentucky with family, her husband and three children. She is a five generation Mc Cracken County Native.