Our staff
Cathy Stover
Cathy is our pulmonary function technician. She will talk with you and develop your medical history, then test your breathing and explain the results in a way you will understand. Cathy’s father was a retired UMWA coal miner.
Annis Williams
Annis will greet you when you come in or call. She helps with you with scheduling and billing. Her brother is a disabled coal miner and her uncle suffered with black lung disease.
Lisa Craddock, RT (R)
Lisa is our Registered Radiologic Technologist (X-Ray Tech). She will do your Chest X-ray. She has a strong family history in coal mining including her father, her grandfather, and several uncles.
Anthony Canada
Tony is our benefits counselor. He will help you fill out forms for state and federal black lung benefits. He can also answer any of your questions about the process. Tony has been a coal miner himself and his father retired from the coal mines.
Susie Criss, CMA
Susie was Dr. Doyle's Medical Assistant for many years and has done testing and benefits counseling. She is now the Director of the Black Lung Program. Susie has a lot of family in the mining industry including her husband who does prep plant work and a brother who is an active underground coal miner.
Daniel Doyle, M.D.
Dr. Doyle has been a part of our Black Lung Clinic since the beginning. He is a Harvard Medical School graduate and came to Scarbro, West Virginia in 1978 to help establish the New River Clinic with UMWA coal miners from the community.
Erica Ellis, LPN
Erica is Dr. Doyle’s Nurse and assists with asthma education with her training through the American Lung Association Breathe Well, Live Well Program. Her husband works in the mining industry.
We understand your struggles. We fight every year to help maintain benefits for coal miners and improve existing legislation. We keep up to date on changes surrounding benefits and testing through trainings at our State and National conferences for Black Lung Clinics to ensure that we are able to help you the best way possible. We work closely with the other Black Lung Clinics in the State and Country through the National Coalition of Black Lung and Respiratory Disease Clinics. We also work very closely with the Fayette County West Virginia Black Lung Association and the National Black Lung Association.