Dr. Wendy Russell is an accomplished board certified-family medicine physician who has been working to improve health outcomes among women, men and children for several years. After owning her own practice in McDonough, Georgia, Russell joined one of the most prestigious and well-known healthcare systems in Atlanta as a site director since 2012. 

Russell is also the founder and President of Upside Down and Right Side Up, a comprehensive fitness and nutrition-based program that promote health and regular physical activity with the goal of preventing obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases. 

The Tuskegee University alum earned her medical degree with honors from Wayne University School of Medicine and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, American Academy of Family Physicians and American Medical Association. She and her husband have four children.