WHO WE ARE
Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, On Your Side Health is a service-minded organization advancing solutions to build a healthier, sustainable future. We are healers and helpers committed to delivering healthy outcomes for people every day. We are leaders improving public health through advocacy, community service, and education related to 3 core pillars:
We provide individualized consultation, assistance with benefits claims, education and advocacy solutions.
OUR FOUNDER AND CEO
Dr. Kyle Horton is a leader in the complicated arena of healthcare delivery and on issues and inequities impacting public health. She is an Internal Medicine physician who earned an MBA as part of a dual degree physician leadership development program. She brought her commitment to improving Veterans care, health equity, and fighting for healthier, safer environments to her candidacy for the US House of Representatives in 2018. Her campaign earned national attention with her live appearance on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber.
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Dr. Kyle was raised in a family with a long history of service in the United States Armed Forces, and she has carried this spirit of service on by caring for Veterans with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, including working in a post-deployment clinic for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. There she trained the next generation of VA physicians to address the physical and mental health needs of our returning heroes. She earned the VA’s Silver Award for quality and commitment to patient-centered care for her Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT).
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Dr. Kyle has years of experience working with the Veteran community and in advocacy, especially in the area of mental health. She worked alongside Veterans advocacy groups on Capitol Hill for passage of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act. She has since championed changes and quality of care improvements to address opiate safety, military sexual trauma, women Veteran suicide prevention, and Veterans’ burn pit exposures.
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Armed with the belief that quality healthcare should be a right of all persons, Dr. Kyle stood with American families by leading opposition to the ACA repeal and championing Medicaid expansion in her home state of North Carolina. A rally she emceed was even recognized by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show for its poignant message and demonstration of political courage. She’s served as a planner and speaker at community healthcare summits, including a Behavioral Health and Faith Summit, which was recognized for innovation by leaders in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dr. Kyle stepped to the fore of the fight against offshore drilling after the death of a family loved one in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. She has led meetings at the White House where she delivered over 2 million comments opposing offshore drilling to Administration officials. She has also led on issues related to environmental justice as someone who graduated high school in Flint, MI and having witnessed the devastation of her family’s farm in Appalachia from strip mining. She served on the Board of Clean Cape Fear, which is a grassroots community advocacy group addressing water pollution with PFAS and emerging contaminants like Gen X. She recently joined the Boards of Young Scientist Academy and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear.
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More About Dr. Kyle
Dr. Kyle graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and received the highest student affairs leadership award. She then earned both her MD and MBA degrees in a 5-year physician leadership development program at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, VA where she was named Outstanding Senior Resident. She returned to Wilmington, NC in 2012.
OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mimi Latt Marquis
Mimi Latt Marquis is a first generation American, having immigrated with her family to Greensboro, NC. She finished her last 2 years of high school in the States (NC, and DE), and attended the University of Delaware on a Food Science & Nutrition track. Mimi moved to Alexandria, Virginia to pursue a career in the travel industry.
Mimi has spent over 30 years in the travel and hospitality industry. She has worked in corporate travel as an agent, worked with international student groups, as well as military and federal workers. She's also worked on individual travel as well as handing groups for meetings and events. She eventually moved to back-of-the house as quality control and handles online booking applications.
Mimi has served in many volunteer positions including: President of her condo association; Communications Officer for the New Hanover Democratic Women; and Precinct chair. Mimi is a co-founder of Cape Fear OSMS.
OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS LEADERSHIP
Michelle Urban - President
Born and raised in New Jersey, Michelle moved to Wilmington, NC to attend undergrad at UNCW (BS in Biology) and then pharmacy school at UNC-CH (PharmD). She has twenty years of pharmacy experience, much of that in retail at CVS and Realo Drug, and now works for PPD in Medical Information. She has helped raise over $45,000 as Event Coordinator for ECEF, a nonprofit focused on esophageal cancer. She runs an Etsy shop called BoutiqueByShell, which blends her management and creative art skills.
Michelle has been married to DJ Urban for almost 14 years and they have two young children, Kaia and Kihei. In her free time she loves spending time with her family, running, and going to the beach. She has been an avid supporter, both through time and resources, of local causes and is very excited to help lead On Your Side Health, to make an even larger impact in southeastern NC!
Carol Morse Sibley - Secretary
Carol Morse Sibley has over 40 years’ experience as a writer for the pharmaceutical industry. In 1968 she joined Bristol-Myers’ International Division as Manager, Medical Information Services. Subsequently, Carol worked at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals as a Clinical Research Associate, and as Manager of Scientific Communications with responsibility for preparing scientific exhibits and medical publications.
Since 1976 Carol has written various documents for a number of clients, including major pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, Pharmacia-Upjohn, and Astra Pharmaceuticals, for agencies specializing in medical education, and for individual opinion leaders in academia. Carol has co-authored three major review articles,1-3 and hundreds of other articles which have appeared in peer-review journals, and was the associate editor for two journal supplements on ceftriaxone.4-5 In addition to anti-infectives, Carol has extensive experience in antiretroviral therapy, anesthesiology, allergy/asthma, contraception and women’s and men’s health, dermatology, gastroenterology, psychiatry, neurology, and urology.
Carol has also attended major medical meetings such as the San Antonio Breast Cancer Annual Meeting, the Society of Surgical Oncologists Annual Meeting, 12th World AIDS Conference (Geneva), and the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents/Chemotherapy, where she contributed news articles for next-day newsletters.
Carol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, (now part of Drexel University Medical School) and is an ASCP-registered medical technologist.