• Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock TX, 1986
• Doctorate Degree in Osteopathy, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1980
• Residency training in OB/GYN, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo TX, 1980 - 1984
• Head of the Generalist and Gynecology Section, Department of OB/GYN, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 2003-2008
• Board Certified

Dr. Henderson serves as the Director of MAHEC’s Department of OB/GYN. In addition to providing general gynecologic care for women of all ages, Dr. Henderson specializes in mature women and postmenopausal gynecologic services. He is certified in clinical bone densitometry and has special interest in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

Dr. Henderson is the only physician in Asheville certified to perform a procedure called Essure, an alternative to a tubal ligation.

• Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
• OB/GYN Residency, MAHEC Department of OB/GYN, Asheville, NC
• Board Certified

Dr. Beth Buys is a general Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Regional OB/GYN Specialists. Her areas of special interest include contraceptive options (including Implanon), minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (including Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy), and general obstetrics. Dr. Buys also has a special interest in resident education and is the Program Director for the MAHEC OB/GYN Residency Program.

• University of Maryland School of Medicine, Boston MA, 1992
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship - University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1994
• Faculty at Penn State University, 1997 - 2000
• Board Certified

Dr. Carol Coulson is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist. She specializes in providing care for women who are "at risk" and considering pregnancy or those who are already pregnant and "high-risk" or complicated for a variety of reasons. Dr. Coulson sees patients who are undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures such as comprehensive ultrasound, chorionic villus sampling, and genetic amniocentesis. She also consults on patients with medical and surgical disorders coincident with or prior to pregnancy including heart disease, chronic hypertension, diabetes and other endocrinologic disorders, kidney and gastrointestinal diseases, and infectious diseases. Otherwise healthy women who may require these services are those whose pregnancies are at markedly increased risk for adverse outcomes such as those with abnormal serum screens, multiple gestations, recurrent preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, or growth abnormalities of the fetus.

• Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 1997
• OB/GYN Residency, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 2001
• Board Certified

Dr. Currens provides general gynecologic and obstetrical care for women of all ages and some high-risk pregnancy care. She has special interest in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, medical student education and office procedures including hysteroscopy, colposcopy, and LEEP.

Dr. Currens also serves as the Medical Student Clerkship Director.

• Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1997
• OB/GYN Residency, University of Minnesota, 2002
• Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 2006
• Board Certified

Dr. Ursula Harkness is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist. She specializes in providing care for women who are "at risk" and considering pregnancy or those who are already pregnant and "high-risk" or complicated for a variety of reasons. Dr. Harkness sees patients who are undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures such as comprehensive ultrasound, chorionic villus sampling, and genetic amniocentesis. She also consults on patients with medical and surgical disorders coincident with or prior to pregnancy including heart disease, chronic hypertension, diabetes and other endocrinologic disorders, kidney and gastrointestinal diseases, and infectious diseases. Otherwise healthy women who may require these services are those whose pregnancies are at markedly increased risk for adverse outcomes such as those with abnormal serum screens, multiple gestations, recurrent preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, or growth abnormalities of the fetus.

•University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1974
•OB/GYN Residency, Bowman Gray School of Medicine
•Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship, Bowman Gray School of Medicine
•Board Certified

• University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1995
• OB/GYN Residency, MAHEC Department of Ob/Gyn, Asheville, NC
• Board Certified

Dr. Kellett Letson serves primarily as an Obstetrics Hospitalist for the MAHEC Resident Team. As such, he works primarily with laboring women, those having cesarean births, and hospitalized high-risk obstetric patients at Mission Hospital.

His areas of special interest include quality improvement in obstetrics and gynecology, labor, cesarean birth, healthcare policy, finance, administration, and graduate medical education.

Dr. Letson also currently serves as the Women’s Service Line Leader (hospital department chair) at Mission Hospital.

MSW - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

MSW - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• East Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 1996
• OB/GYN Residency, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, 2000
• Board Certified

Dr. Kiran Sigmon is a general Obstetrician and Gynecologist with a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of vulvar skin disease and sexual pain. She started the MAHEC Vulvar Clinic in 2006 to assist other providers in the WNC region with difficult cases including recurrent vaginitis, lichen sclerosis, lichen planus, lichen simplex chronicus and vulvodynia, to name a few. She works with other local providers to provide patients with opportunities to explore treatments including physical therapy, acupuncture, and nutritional counseling. She also helps patients address the psychosocial components of living with chronic pain by working closely with local mental health professionals. Dr. Sigmon feels strongly about educating patients, other providers and the community about issues related to genital health and sexuality, and many local physicians rotate seeing patients with her in the Vulvar Clinic.

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 1971
• OB/GYN Residency, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, 1975
• Board Certified

Dr. VanDyke serves as the Medical Director of MAHEC’s Women’s Health Center. He provides routine gynecologic and obstetrical care for women of all ages. In addition, he has special interest in several areas of mature woman care including menopausal management, osteoporosis, and urinary incontinence. He also specializes in abnormal uterine bleeding, cervial dysplasia and advanced laparoscopic surgery.

• University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, 2002
• Residency in Ob/Gyn, University of Utah Medical Center, 2006
• Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Utah Medicine Center, 2009
• Board Certified in General Ob/Gyn
• Board Eligible in Maternal Fetal Medicine

Dr. Jennifer Warren is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist. She specializes in providing care for women who are 'at risk' and considering pregnancy or those who are already pregnant and 'high-risk' or complicated for a variety of reasons. Dr. Warren sees patients who are undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures such as comprehensive ultrasound and genetic amniocentesis. She also consults on patients with medical and surgical disorders coincident with or prior to pregnancy including heart disease, chronic hypertension, diabetes and other endocrinologic disorders, kidney and gastrointestinal diseases, and infectious diseases. Otherwise healthy women who may require these services are those whose pregnancies are at markedly increased risk for adverse outcomes such as those with abnormal serum screens, multiple gestations, recurrent preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, or growth abnormalities of the fetus.