Amanda Taylor

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Dr. Taylor has been a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner at Shelby County Rape Crisis Center for over 15 years and has also worked at Wayne County SAFE program for approximately 2 years. She is currently the Director of Nursing at the Shelby County Crime Victim’s and Rape Crisis Center, and has served in that position for almost 2 years.  She served as Associate Program Director for the Wayne County Safe Program, a non-profit sexual assault program in Detroit Michigan. Dr. Taylor has also served as a part-time clinical adjunct professor at the University of Memphis Loewenberg School of Nursing in the Expanding Family Specialty for over 6 years.  She began her career as a labor and delivery nurse at Methodist Hospital Germantown.  In 2005, she graduated from Union University with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and in 2007 she graduated from Vanderbilt University with her Master of Science in Nursing with a Forensic focus.   She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a Forensic focus in 2011.  She is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner.  She is certified as both an Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and a Pediatric Sexual Nurse Examiner.  Dr. Taylor has seen over 1800 patients in the sexual assault field.  She functions in her role as a SANE by offering victims of sexual assault, from all age groups: specific and individualized care that is based on their needs and desires.  She provides medical forensic examinations, evidence collection, injury documentation, sexually transmitted infection testing and prophylaxis, pregnancy prevention as well as expert testimony. Dr. Taylor also interacts with the Department of Children’s Services, prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies in many jurisdictions of Tennessee, Mississippi, as well as Arkansas; to collaborate on cases.  She also provides expert witness testimony in Juvenile, Criminal, and Federal Courts.