General Practitioners

• Pediatric Care
  Jessica grew up in Birmingham, AL, and graduated with a degree in Biomedical Sciences from Auburn University. She earned her Master of Health Science degree in Physician Assistant Studies at The University of South Alabama. After considering work in pediatrics, she realized she had grown a heart for serving adults instead, and she has had a lot of fun learning from her patients in the process of providing their medical care. She has been practicing at IMA since 2016. Jessica loves being the wife of Robert, the mother of her young children, and a member of her local church family.
• Primary Care
  The hospitalists are available to speak with your primary care doctor by phone. A detailed summary of events and the treatment plan will be sent to your doctor upon discharge.
• Family Practice
  Dr. Coleman is from Texas but grew up in St. Louis, MO. He graduated from Auburn University in 1997 with a degree in accounting and then graduated from University of Texas with a masters in accounting. He worked as a CPA for 6 years in New York City and Houston, TX. Deciding to change careers, he graduated from medical school at Texas Tech University in 2011. Upon medical school graduation, he entered the U.S. Army and completed family medicine residency at Fort Hood, TX in 2014. He went on to serve 11 years in the Army, including 2 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He served the last 4 years as a brigade surgeon in the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, NC. Dr. Coleman and his wife Kim live in Auburn with their 3 active daughters. He enjoys reading, coffee, golf, and running stairs at Beard-Eaves Coliseum.
• Emergency Care
  The hospitalists see patients who are in the hospital. Your family doctor may only be seeing patients in the office and may have asked the hospitalists to see you while you are here. The emergency room doctor or another doctor may have referred you the hospitalists to help manage your care. Most hospitalists do not see patients outside of the hospital.
• Colonoscopy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  In a place where businesses come and go, and even common household names seem apt to vanish without warning, it is refreshing to know that some companies are true entrepreneurial success stories and are reaching the milestones to prove it. In August of 1969, James P. Himmelwright, M.D. opened the area’s first internal medicine practice with three employees in a small office in the Medical Arts complex in Opelika, Alabama. He was soon joined by Dr. Richard Herring of Lafayette and by 1981 incorporated the business as Internal Medicine Associates, P.C. (IMA) with six physicians.
• Gastroenterology
  In addition to providing adult internal medicine, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and hospital medicine, IMA offers a full suite of in-house ancillary services to ensure the care you receive is as convenient as possible. We provide the following services in our main location.
• Nephrology
• Endoscopy

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  Susan Holmes grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and moved to Auburn to pursue a nursing degree. She graduated with a BSN in the first nursing class from Auburn University in 1981 and remained in the area, working at East Alabama Medical Center for 15 years. She obtained a Master’s of Science in Nursing with the Family Nurse Practitioner certification from UAB in 1996. She was awarded a doctorate in Adult Education from Auburn University in 2006, and has taught nursing at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She has worked in gastroenterology, family practice, internal medicine and community mental health as a nurse practitioner. She joined IMA in 1996.

Radiologist

• Radiology
• X-Rays

Allergists

• Allergies
  IMA was founded on the specialty of internal medicine, but through the years has provided sub-specialties such as gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology, pulmonology, infectious disease, nephrology, allergy and immunology and behavioral medicine. Many physicians and even specialties found their start at IMA, including the area’s first internist (Dr. Himmelwright), cardiologist, oncologist and pulmonologist. Most recently, IMA initiated the area’s first hospitalist service in 2006 and became the sole provider of hospitalist services to East Alabama Medical Center in 2008. Today, our physicians and mid-level providers offer care to IMA patients in the areas of internal medicine, gastroenterology, pulmonology, diabetic counseling and footcare, behavioral medicine and hospitalist medicine. The office offers laboratory services and also provides in-house ancillary services including x-ray and bone density scans.