Dr. Henderson is our Medical Director and a board-certified physician in internal medicine and endocrinology, with advanced training in thyroid disorders.  Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she graduated near the top of her class at Northeastern Ohio Medical University, where she received the honor of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). She completed her endocrinology fellowship training under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research-training grant at Duke University Medical Center. She then served as Medical Director for the Thyroid and Endocrine Tumor Board at Duke and as Clinical Director for the Thyroid and Endocrine Neoplasia Clinic at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. 

She currently owns Charleston Thyroid Center in Charleston, SC, which is dedicated to patients with thyroid disease.  She specializes in autoimmune thyroid disease, lifestyle management, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and ethanol ablation.  In addition to using a mainstream approach, Dr. Henderson also uses complementary medicine to explore underlying root causes of thyroid autoimmunity and is successful at achieving remission with many of her patients.  She desires to improve quality of life for those living with thyroid disease through both novel research and medical guidance. For patients living with Hashimoto’s disease, she believes that knowledge is power. Because of this belief, she wrote a book directed towards patients with Hashimoto’s Disease filled with scientifically accurate medical and lifestyle/nutritional information.

She has received multiple prestigious grants from the American Thyroid Association (ATA) and ThyCa (Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association).  Her work has been featured on the cover of Thyroid and in many other scientific journals including Endocrinology, Gut, and Oncotarget.  She has also served as the President of the American College of Thyroidology.