UT Medical Group, Inc. - Best Doctors 2009

Best Doctors in America® Names 89 UT Medical Group Physicians to 2009-2010 Database

Memphis, Tennessee (October 28, 2009) —The 2009-2010 listing of Best Doctors in America® names 89 physicians affiliated with UT Medical Group, Inc. as best in their fields.

The Best Doctors in America database is widely regarded as a high-quality reference guide to the medical profession. The list is based on an exhaustive survey of currently listed Best Doctors specialists who are asked to rate the clinical abilities of their peers. Participants are asked, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor, to whom would you refer them?" Specialists complete ballots on other doctors in their own and in related specialties. They may also nominate other physicians who they think should be included in the review process.

Best Doctors, Inc. does not accept compensation from physicians or hospitals in return for listing doctors in its database, nor does it pay doctors to participate in the survey.

UT Medical Group is the private group practice affiliated with the UT Health Science Center College of Medicine faculty. A not-for-profit, non-tax-supported group practice, UTMG is dedicated to quality patient care, medical education, and medical research. For more information, visit www.utmedicalgroup.com.

The following UT Medical Group doctors are included in the 2009-2010 Best Doctors in America database:

(Listed by specialty)

Allergy & Immunology
Mary Ellen Conley (also pediatric specialist)
Christie F. Michael (also pediatric specialist)

Cardiovascular Disease
Kevin P. Newman (congestive heart failure)
Guy L. Reed III

Dermatology
Robert B. Skinner Jr.

Endocrinology/Metabolism
Samuel Dagogo-Jack
Thomas A. Hughes
Beverly Williams-Cleaves

Family Medicine
David L. Maness

Infectious Disease
Kerry O. Cleveland
Michael S. Gelfand
Mack Land

Internal Medicine
James E. Bailey
Burton Hayes
James B. Lewis, Jr.
Robert E. Morrison
Natascha S. Thompson
Catherine Womack

Medical Genetics
Eniko Pivnick (clinical genetics)
Jewell C. Ward (clinical genetics; also pediatric specialist)
R. Sidney Wilroy (clinical genetics)

Nephrology
Stephen J. Schwab (dialysis)

Neurology
Mark LeDoux (movement disorders)

OB/GYN
Vanessa Givens (Family Medicine)
Giancarlo Mari (maternal & fetal)
Daniel C. Martin (reproductive surgery)
Owen P. Phillips (general & genetics)
Michael B. Schneider (maternal & fetal)

Ophthalmology
Edward Chaum (vitreo-retinal surgery)
James C. Fleming (oculoplastic & orbital surgery; trauma)
Barrett G. Haik (ocular oncology)
Matthew W. Wilson (ocular oncology)

Otolaryngology
C. Bruce MacDonald (neurotology)

Pediatric Specialist
Bruce S. Alpert (pediatric cardiology)
Kanwaljeet S. Anand (pediatric critical care)
Sandra Arnold (pediatric infectious disease)
Bettina H. Ault (pediatric nephrology)
Dennis D. Black (pediatric gastoenterology)
Thomas F. Boulden (pediatric radiology)
Steven C. Buckingham (pediatric infectious disease)
Mark C. Bugnitz (pediatric critical care)
P. Joan Chesney (pediatric infectious disease)
Russell W. Chesney (pediatric nephrology)
Harris L. Cohen (pediatric radiology)
Mary Ellen Conley (immunodeficiency; also allergy & immunology)
John P. DeVincenzo (pediatric infectious disease)
Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy (neonatal-perinatal medicine)
B. Keith English (pediatric infectious disease)
John K. Eshun (pediatric gastroenterology)
Mary Ellen Hoehn (pediatric ophthalmology)
Deborah P. Jones (pediatric nephrology)
Vijaya M. Joshi (pediatric cardiology)
Natalie C. Kerr (pediatric ophthalmology)
David Kube (pediatric developmental & behavioral problems)
Karen L. Lakin (abused children; also general pediatrics)
Linda F. Lazar (pediatric gastroenterology)
D. Betty Lew (pediatric allergy & immunology)
Christie F. Michael (pediatric allergy & immunology; also general allergy & immunology)
Linda K. Myers (pediatric rheumatology)
Frederick Palmer pediatric developmental & behavioral problems)
Louis S. Parvey (pediatric radiology)
Gerald J. Presbury (pediatric hematology-oncology
Robert A. Schoumacher (pediatric pulmonology)
Claudette J. Shephard (pediatric & adolescent gynecology)
Sarah R. S. Stender (adolescent & young adult medicine)
Dennis C. Stokes (pediatric pulmonology)
Stephanie Ann Storgion - (pediatric critical care)
Jerome W. Thompson (pediatric otolaryngology)
James D. Tutor pediatric pulmonology)
Benjamin Rush Waller (pediatric cardiology)
Jewell C. Ward (pediatric metabolic diseases; also medical genetics)
James W. Wheless (neurology, epilepsy)
Robert J. Wyatt (pediatric nephrology)
John Zanella (pediatric anesthesiology)

Pediatrics
H. Gail Beeman
Marion E. Hare
John R. Hill
Valerie P. Jameson
Karen L. Lakin (also pediatric specialist)
Deborah D. Nelson

Plastic Surgery
William L. Hickerson (general; wound healing & burns)
Robert D. Wallace (general; craniofacial surgery; facial aesthetic surgery)

Psychiatry
James A. Greene (geriatric psychiatry)
Kenneth M. Sakauye (geriatric psychiatry; ECT therapy)

Radiology
Robert E. Gold (general radiology; interventional radiology)
W. Chapman Smith

Rheumatology
Andrew Kang

Surgery
Martin Croce (trauma)
Timothy C. Fabian (trauma)
F. Elizabeth Pritchard
Guy R. Voeller

Surgical Oncology
Raza A. Dilawari

Vascular Surgery
Michael J. Rohrer (vascular & endovascular surgery)

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