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Only where there's a relationship of course. We would be unwise to reject medical expertise from a body where atheists were few, unless religion impinged on that advice eg abortion, cryonics. Here a relationship with religion is clear.
I would say that if on some matter of medical controversy atheist doctors and medical academics tended to come out one way, while the median opinion came out the other way, we should go with the atheist medical opinion, ceteris paribus. Atheism is a proxy for intelligence and scientific thinking, a finding which has a mountain of evidence in its favor.
Definitely if the majority opinion among atheist experts differed from the majority opinion among all experts, I'd go for the former, but if say the majority of doctors studying a disease were Catholic for simple geographic reasons, I'd still defer to their expertise.