Great health care is not one size fits all. Fortunately, neither are the women practicing it.
At Paradigm Health, Dr. Meg Paterson and Dr. Kylie Rae Conroy bring different backgrounds and experiences to a shared goal: helping patients take a more personal and proactive approach to their health. Paterson found her calling as a teenager volunteering in a busy Dallas hospital. Conroy's understanding of wellness began on a Division I softball field.
Their paths to medicine may look different, but their philosophies meet in the same place: the patient should be at the center of the story.
Dr. Meg Paterson: Seeing the Whole Person
Paterson's journey began with the intensity and fast pace of hospital life. As a teenager volunteering in Dallas, she discovered medicine's intersection of science and service. She went on to study neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, earned her MD and Master of Public Health from the University of Texas, and completed her internal medicine training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
In 2015, she returned to Nashville as faculty at Vanderbilt Medical Center. This summer, after years of knowing Paradigm founders Dr. Matt McEvoy and Dr. David Edwards, she joined the practice and notes, “I am so grateful to be part of this team.”
Board certified in internal medicine, Paterson has practiced both hospital medicine and primary care. “I love general internal medicine and in particular primary care because I get to see my patients as a whole, both physically and emotionally,” she says.
That perspective shapes every appointment. Paterson wants to hear each patient's story, understand their priorities, and help create a plan that feels personal and realistic.
“My approach is holistic,” she says. “I want to make your priorities my priorities, and I want you to leave the appointment feeling like I heard and understand your health history, and that you are excited to make a tangible plan to improve your health in a way designed uniquely for you.”
She is particularly interested in women's health, cognitive health, dementia prevention, exercise, and the connection between mind and body. And while the internet may occasionally suggest otherwise, she knows there is no single supplement, workout, or miracle formula that works for everyone.
Outside the exam room, Paterson and her family enjoy Williamson County life, including dates at Red Pony, trips to the Harpeth and the ongoing adventure of improving their historic home near downtown.
Dr. Kylie Rae Conroy: Prevention Before the Emergency
For Conroy, the road to Paradigm Health began on a different playing field. A former Division I collegiate softball player at Baylor University, she developed an early understanding that health is about much more than treating illness. Before medical school, she worked as a performance coach with professional, elite, and executive athletes alongside nutritionists and physical therapists.
“That experience reinforced my belief that the best health outcomes come from looking at the whole person,” she says.
Her athletic background initially pointed her toward sports medicine, but medical school led her to emergency medicine, where she has practiced as a board-certified emergency physician for the past 14 years, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working in the emergency department gave Conroy a firsthand view of heart attacks, strokes, dementia, trauma, and the effects those events have on patients and families. It also strengthened her interest in prevention.
“Over time, that experience made me even more committed to working at the other end of the spectrum: preventing disease before it begins whenever possible,” she says.
Conroy pursued additional fellowship training in lifestyle medicine, precision medicine, and menopause medicine. At Paradigm, her philosophy is centered on partnership and understanding the person behind the medical history.
“My approach is holistic, personalized, and rooted in partnership,” she says. “I want to understand each patient as a whole person, their health history, family, work, priorities, resources, lifestyle, and goals, because all of those factors influence what a sustainable health plan looks like.”
She is especially excited about the growing focus on healthspan, helping people maintain strength, vitality, independence, and quality of life. Women's health is another major focus. Conroy is one of fewer than 5,000 clinicians certified by The Menopause Society and is passionate about helping women navigate different seasons of life with evidence-based, individualized care.
At Paradigm, she says patients benefit from something increasingly rare in modern medicine: time.
“Paradigm Health combines a comprehensive, holistic approach to wellness with what we call ‘unreasonable hospitality,’” she says.
Recently, Conroy and her family moved from Murfreesboro to Franklin, allowing her to care for patients in the community she now calls home. She also continues to work at times in the Emergency Department at Williamson Medical Center.
Together, Paterson and Conroy bring two distinct paths to the same destination. One began in a Dallas hospital, the other on a Division I softball field. At Paradigm Health, both are helping patients discover that better health is not about finding one perfect formula. It is about finding a thoughtful, personal path forward and having the right people beside you along the way.
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