WHO WE ARE
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 completed her residency training in internal medicine and is now boarded with the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS). She has experience as academic teaching faculty for medical residents and clinical experience in primary care, emergency department, and inpatient hospital settings. Dr. Kyle earned an MBA as part of a dual degree physician leadership development program. In addition to On Your Side Health, she has recently founded a budding 501(c)(4) called On Your Side Action.1
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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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Building on her VA experience, she has now helped over 780 Veterans with expert,
medical support for their toxic exposure-related VA benefits claims AT NO COST to the Veteran!
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Dr. Kyle has years of experience working with the Veteran community and in advocacy, especially in the areas of mental health, Veterans toxic exposures, and DoD contamination, including to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). As a child of a Vietnam Veteran and having grown up drinking contaminated well water from near Wright Patterson Air Force Base before moving to PFAS-contaminated Wilmington, NC, she is passionate about protecting our military, Veteran, and Department of Defense (DoD) communities from environmental hazards. Related to PFAS, she has previously worked with leadership of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), which is the federal agency under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tasked with protecting communities' health from exposures to hazardous substances. She assisted ATSDR leadership in planning a national PFAS Community Engagement Summit and worked in consultation with their experts to improve mental health-related resources for those dealing with the stress of harm from environmental contamination.2
A new collaboration with expert researchers and scientists to help Veterans who served at the Former Fort Ord made national news as they found extensive use of a mixture of the two active toxicants in Agent Orange to control poison oak at the base.3 This discovery also led her to uncover a troubling policy change through VA which will enable a secretive DoD Board to coverup toxic herbicide use at DoD installations.4 The change enables DoD to censor Veterans' herbicide exposure concerns and ensures they are denied their health and benefits coverage through VA for conditions likely related to these herbicide exposures, including to Agent Orange.4 More information on their collaborative findings around Fort Ord and their advocacy efforts are available on the Fort Ord Contamination website and the On Your Side Action Fort Ord page.5,6
Dr. Kyle has contributed to legislation to stop Department of Defense (DoD) discharges of PFAS for source control, to improve clinical guidance related to PFAS and DoD-related exposures, and to improve accessibility of PFAS blood testing and related care.7,8,9 She is currently engaged in related advocacy to change a harmful existing VA to DoD herbicide policy and to reform the VA’s Presumption Decision Process (PDP) for Veterans toxic exposure-related benefits to ensure the process is transparent, fair, evidence-based, and Veteran-centric.
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She previously 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. ​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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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.
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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 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 ICON as a Medical Information Manager. 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 16 years and they have two 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 in Southeaster NC and is very excited to help lead On Your Side Health to make an even larger impact nationally!
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. 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.
1. On Your Side Action. 501(c)(4). Available at: https://www.onyoursideaction.org/
2. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Community Stress Resource Center. Available at: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/community-stress-resource-center/index.html
3. Norman, Hannah and Kime, Patricia. “The neglected U.S. victims of Agent Orange.” The Washington Post. April 30, 2024. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/30/neglected-us-victims-agent-orange/#
4. Elder, Pat. "The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense ignore veterans and their dependents sickened by Agent Orange." Military Poisons. February 10, 2025. Available at: https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/the-department-of-veterans-affairs-and-the-department-of-defense-ignore-veterans-and-their-dependents-sickened-by-agent-orange
5. Fort Ord Contamination. Available at: https://www.fortordcontamination.org
6. On Your Side Action. Fort Ord page. Available at: https://www.onyoursideaction.org/fortord
ilable at: https://www.onyoursideaction.org/
7. Congressman Dan Kildee. “Kildee introduces new legislation to provide access to health care for Veterans exposed to toxic PFAS chemicals.” Available at: https://dankildee.house.gov/media/press-releases/kildee-introduces-new-legislation-provide-access-health-care-veterans-exposed
8. Congressman Dan Kildee. “Kildee introduces legislation to expand access to PFAS blood testing.” Available at:
https://dankildee.house.gov/media/press-releases/kildee-introduces-legislation-expand-access-pfas-blood-testing
9. Congressman Dan Kildee. “Kildee introduces new bipartisan legislation to improve medical treatment for PFAS-exposed patients.”Available at: 118th Congress. “Department of Defense PFAS Discharge Prevention Act.” Available at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-
congress/house-bill/6095
10. MSNBC. The Beat with Ari Melber. "8 Women Candidates join for record-breaking 2018 Midterms." Available at: https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/watch-8-women-candidates-join-for-record-breaking-2018-midterms-1358553667524