Donna Stanton, MD

Dr. Donna Stanton is a board-certified internal medicine and pediatrics physician at BluegrassMD in Lexington. She completed a dual residency at the University of Kentucky in 2008 and has spent nearly two decades in primary care since.

Before medical school at East Tennessee State University, she studied exercise science and nutrition and spent five years working as a personal trainer and exercise physiologist at Vanderbilt, work that helped shape her passion for promoting overall well-being. She's also a certified wellness coach for lifestyle medicine, and her focus areas include cholesterol management, weight control, nutrition, and lifestyle counseling, aimed at giving patients preventive strategies alongside personalized care.

She's the parent of two teenagers and shares her home with two dogs, two horses, and a cat. Her spouse is an ER physician, and the two of them stay closely tied to the local healthcare community and involved in their community.