Ashley H. Seawright, DNP, ACNP

Ashley H. Seawright, DNP, ACNP

Specialties: Transplant Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

Gender: Female

Biography: Ashley Seawright completed her BSN at Baylor University in 1997. After which time she worked as an ICU nurse until 2007, when she graduated from the University of Mississippi Medical Center with an MSN and became board certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. She was then hired as an instructor in the department of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center where she serves as a nurse practitioner/hospitalists for the abdominal transplant, hepatobiliary and surgical oncology division managing patients in both an inpatient and outpatient clinical setting. In 2010, Dr. Seawright completed the Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree at Johns Hopkins followed by the Business Advantage Program at Millsaps College.
In January of 2018, she was named the Advanced Transplant Provider of the year by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. In 2017, Mississippi Nurses’ Association & Mississippi Nurses’ Foundation awarded Dr. Seawright the Advanced Practice Nurse of 2017.
Her professional and research interest include: kidney, liver, and pancreas transplantation, living donation in minority groups, health disparities and access to care, quality improvement initiatives for the transplant population, as well as early recovery after surgery initiatives.
Currently Dr. Seawright serves as the Executive Director of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). She is clinical director of transplant and surgical oncology. In addition, she serves on the council of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons as Associate Member at large.

Practice Locations

1 UMMC Grenada Hospital
960 JK Avent Drive, Grenada, MS 38901
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2 Pavilion - UMMC
2500 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216
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Accepted Insurance Plans

The University of Mississippi Medical Center accepts all plans, but may not be an in-network provider with your plan. We encourage you to contact your insurer and ask if the plan is in network with UMMC. Always contact your insurance carrier for specific coverage information.

*Note: Grenada and Holmes County locations have different payor contracts. Oral Surgeons are considered in-network to the medical health plans listed below NOT dental.

Jackson and Madison

Medicare health insurance plans

  • Devoted Health
  • Humana Medicare Advantage
  • Medicare - Fee for Service
  • Railroad Medicare - Fee for Service
  • Shared Health Mississippi
  • United Healthcare (except HMO)
  • Vantage Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
  • Wellcare - Medicare Advantage

Medicaid health plans

  • Mississippi Medicaid Fee for Service
  • MS CAN Plans: Magnolia, Molina, TrueCare
  • MS CHIP: Magnolia, Molina, TrueCare

Dental plans

  • Always Care
  • Avesis
  • Medicaid Fee for Service
  • MS CAN: Magnolia Health Plan, Molina HealthCare, TrueCare
  • Ambetter
  • Unum

Vision plans

  • EyeMed
  • First Look
  • March Vision

Commercial, Marketplace and other health plans

  • Aetna Health Management (excludes UMMC Madison)
  • Ambetter
  • American Life Care - PHCS/Multiplan
  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi
  • BCBS Federal
  • Celtic (Transplants)
  • Cigna PPO (excludes transplants; excludes UMMC Madison)
  • Corvel Healthcare Corp (Workers Comp.)
  • First Choice Health Plan - includes Humana PPO Commercial, but not Humana Medicare Advantage
  • First Health Network/Coventry - Aetna
  • Government Employees Health Insurance Association (GEHA) - United Healthcare
  • Interlink Health Services (Transplant)
  • LifeTrac (Transplant)
  • Mississippi Department of Rehab Services (MDRS)
  • Mississippi Physicians Care Network (MPCN)
  • Mississippi State and School Employees' Health Insurance Plan (AHS Network administered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi)
  • Multiplan - PHCS/American Life Care
  • North Mississippi Health Link
  • OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. (Transplant)
  • OptumHealth VA CCN 
  • PPO Plus, LLC/Zelis/Stratose
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
  • Tricare
  • United Healthcare: PPO Commercial (excludes HMO)
  • Vantage Health Plan: Commercial, PPACA Plan
  • Veterans Administration

Behavioral health plans

  • United Behavioral Health
  • Cigna Behavioral Health

Education

Board Certification: Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care
Graduate School:Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Medical Education:Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Medical Education:University of Mississippi School of Nursing

Experience

Current Positions

Director, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS07/2016 - Present
Surgical Chief of Advanced Practice, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS03/2016 - Present
Lead Nurse Practitioner, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS04/2014 - Present
Transplant Nurse Practitioner, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS09/2007 - Present
Instructor, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS09/2007 - Present
Executive Director of Advanced Practice Providers, University of Mississippi Medical Center07/2018 - Present

Specialty Certification Licensure

Certification, ProCPR, ProCPR
Licensure, State of Mississippi
Certification, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, American Nurse Credentialing Center

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

Sherilyn Gordon Memorial Travel Award, American Society of Transplant Surgeons2019
Advanced Transplant Provider of the Year, American Society of Transplant Surgeons2018
Advanced Practice Nurse of the Year, Mississippi Nursing Association2017
Healthcare Heroes of Mississippi Nominee, Mississippi Business Journal2016
Mississippi DNP Wall of Fame, Mississippi Educational Consortium for the Doctorate of Nursing Practice2012
Travel Grant, ASTS Fellows Symposium of Transplantation Medicine2008
Sigma Theta Tau, Theta Beta Chapter, UMMC