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About Chattanooga's Children Clinic

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Chattanooga Children’s Clinic is a primary care pediatric clinic with two locations at Spring Creek Road in Brainerd and Black Street in Northshore. Operated by Dr. Zara Memon and Dr. Umbar Shah since its opening in the summer of 2013, Chattanooga Children’s Clinic continues to serve the greater Chattanooga community today.

Chattanooga Children’s Clinic accepts all major insurances including Tennessee and Georgia Medicaid. Walk-ins are welcome. Our doctors are also on staff at Parkridge East, Erlanger Women’s East and T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospitals.

Dr. Shah and Dr. Memon are now accepting new patients. They see patients from birth through the child’s 21st year.

Zara S. Memon

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Dr. Memon is a board certified pediatrician who has been practicing general pediatrics since 2003.

She graduated from the Aga Khan University Medical School in 1998 and completed her pediatric residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, NJ. She then practiced pediatrics on the west coast with Group Health while living near Seattle, Washington.

She moved to Chattanooga in 2006 with her family and has been serving the community since. She is a proud mother of three beautiful children, one born in each state she’s lived in.

Umbar Shah

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Dr. Shah is a board certified pediatrician who has been practicing general pediatrics since 2002.

She graduated from the Aga Khan University Medical School in 1996 and completed her pediatric residency training at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Upon finishing training, she moved back to Pakistan and practiced there for four years.

She moved to Chattanooga with her family and has been serving the community here since 2010. She is a dedicated mother to three lovely girls and two puppies.

Kristen Harris

FNP-BC

Kristen Harris is certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Originally from Morristown, TN, Kristen earned her Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Nursing from Carson-Newman University.

Kristen began her career as a registered nurse on a medical-surgical unit at East TN Children's Hospital in Knoxville, TN in 2010. Since graduating with her masters in 2013 she has been practicing as a nurse practitioner in pediatric primary care.

She moved to Chattanooga in 2015 with her husband. In her spare time, Kristen enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and two children.

Natalie Pollard

FNP

Natalie Pollard is a Family Nurse Practitioner, certified by the American Nurses Credentialling Center.

Natalie is from Somerset, KY and completed her Bachelors Degree in Nursing form the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2002 and completed her Master's Degree in Nursing from Troy University in 2007. She has experience working in urgent care and family practice settings, but primarily with pediatric populations since 2013.

Natalie and her family have lived in Chattanooga since 2007. She most enjoys spending time with her 6 children and family, running, traveling to the beach and mountains, and spending time outdoors.

Jenae Hennessey

FNP-BC

Jenae is from Salinas, California. She has undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Nursing. Her bedside nursing experience was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Erlanger from 2013 until she completed her Masters Degree in Nursing from Southern Adventist University in 2020. She has worked in pediatric primary care since.

Jenae and her husband have lived in Cleveland, TN since 2013. They have 3 children, and they love to travel as a family.