Dr. Myiesha Taylor is a board-certified emergency medicine physician specialist and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Myiesha was born and raised in the Southern California areas of Long Beach and Los Angeles. She graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, and subsequently attended the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine where she earned her medical degree (MD).

Thereafter, she continued her training as an intern and resident at Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical Center in South Central Los Angeles, which was a premier training program in Emergency Medicine.  She chose emergency medicine as a specialty after the untimely death of her father who was shot and killed during the civil unrest sparked by the Rodney King trial verdict in 1992.  At King/Drew Medical Center, she served as Chief Resident her senior year, receiving multiple community-based and academic awards.

In an effort to mentor and support women physicians of color globally, she founded Artemis Medical Society. For her work with Artemis, Disney Junior named the mother of Doc McStuffins, the title character of Disney Junior’s highly acclaimed children’s TV show of the same name, “Myiesha,” in Dr. Taylor’s honor. She has been featured in a segment of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt’s Inspiring America series, selected as a 2014 Dallas Women’s Foundation Young Leader Award honoree, featured in three Disney Junior "Be Inspired" Black History Month interstitials and serves as a Women’s Media Center She Source expert.

In 2014, Dr. Taylor was selected to receive the Dallas Women’s Foundation Maura Women Helping Women Young Leader Award.  The award is given to young leaders who are remarkable trailblazers for the next generation and who are finding ways to drive positive change for women and girls.  Furthermore, Dr. Taylor has also been honored as Dallas Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, D Magazine’s Moms Who Inspire, HBCU Digest’s Most Powerful People, and she is a past Fort Worth Business Press Great Women of Texas Honoree.

Dr. Taylor is active in community service with Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and philanthropy via Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Dr. Taylor has also spent time in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she and her husband, William Schlitz, adopted a baby girl and provided medical care to HIV/AIDS orphans in the city.   Together, Dr. Taylor and her husband have three wonderfully talented children.