Duke Cardiology of Lumberton will open an outreach clinic in Pembroke on October 5 at 5103 Candy Park Road. The clinic hours will be Mondays 8 am-12 pm; Wednesdays 8 am-5 pm and Thursdays 1-5 pm.
Dr. Matthew Cummings and Allison Scott, a nurse practitioner, will provide care at the new location.
Cummings earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1998 and his medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville in 2004. He completed his internal medicine residency at East Carolina University/Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville in 2007, serving as chief resident in the department of medicine during 2007 and 2008.
Cummings completed a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the University of Kentucky in 2011 and in advanced interventional cardiology at Ohio State University in 2012. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
His areas of special interest within cardiology include the treatment of coronary artery disease and coronary artery stent implantation, as well as the treatment of complex peripheral vascular disease, including carotid artery stenosis, upper and lower extremity disease and renal artery stenosis. He also specializes in invasive management of venous thromboembolism and acute pulmonary embolism.
A native of Robeson County, Scott completed an associate degree in Nursing at Robeson Community College in 2003. She completed a master’s degree in Nursing with a family nurse practitioner focus from UNC Wilmington in 2010.
Before joining Duke and Southeastern Health Heart and Vascular, she worked as a nurse practitioner at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. She worked for five years in Southeastern Health Heart and Vascular’s cardiac catheterization lab.
For information or to request a referral to the Pembroke location, call 910-671-6619.
