FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JAN. 26, 2004

In the 2003-2004 listing of Best Doctors®, more than 70 physicians affiliated with UT Medical Group, Inc. have been named best in their fields.

UT Medical Group is the Memphis area's largest physician practice with over 325 providers, all of whom are qualified to teach on the faculty of the University of Tennessee, Memphis College of Medicine.

The Best Doctors database is widely regarded as a high-quality reference guide to the medical profession. The list is based on an exhaustive survey in which more 35,000 doctors are asked to rate the clinical abilities of their peers. Participants are asked, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?"

The guide lists doctors in more than 400 areas of medical expertise, including allergy, cardiovascular disease, ophthalmology, internal medicine, pediatrics, and plastic surgery.

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.

The following UT Medical Group doctors are included in the Best Doctors database. Physicians are listed by specialty.

Allergy & Immunology
D. Betty Lew (pediatric)
Mary Ellen Conley (pediatric)

Anesthesiology
Jefferey R. Jernigan
John Zanella

Cardiovascular Disease
Bruce S. Alpert (pediatric)
Brad S. Burlew
Howard R. Horn
Kevin P. Newman

Critical Care
Mark C. Bugnitz (Pediatric)
Michael W. Quasney (Pediatric)
Gregory L. Stidham (Pediatric)
Stephanie Ann Storgion (Pediatric)

Dermatology
E. William Rosenberg
Robert B. Skinner Jr.

Developmental Pediatrics
David A. Kube (Pediatric)
Frederick Palmer (Pediatric)
Mario C. Petersen (Pediatric)

Endocrinology
George A. Burghen (Pediatric)
Robert K. Danish (Pediatric)
Thomas A. Hughes
Beverly Williams-Cleaves

Gastroenterology
Dennis D. Black (Pediatric)
John K. Eshun (Pediatric)
Linda F. Lazar (Pediatric)

Infectious Disease
Frederick Barrett (Pediatric)
Stephen C. Buckingham (Pediatric)
P. Joan Chesney (Pediatric)
John P. Devincenzo (Pediatric)
B. Keith English (Pediatric)
Michael S. Gelfand
Dennis R. Schaberg

Internal Medicine
James E. Bailey
James B. Lewis
Robert E. Morrison
Kathryn Ryder
Catherine Womack

Medical Genetics
Jewell Ward (Pediatric)
R. Sidney Wilroy (Pediatric)

Nephrology
Sergio R. Acchiardo
Bettina H. Ault (Pediatric)
Russell W. Chesney (Pediatric)
Deborah P. Jones (Pediatric)
Robert J. Wyatt (Pediatric)

Nuclear Medicine
J. Daniel Massie

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Gary H. Lipscomb
Owen Phillips
Claudette J. Shephard

Ophthalmology
James C. Fleming
Barrett G. Haik
Natalie C. Kerr
Peter A. Netland

Otolaryngology
Charles Bruce MacDonald
Jerome W. Thompson

Pediatrics (General)
Valerie P. Jameson
Karen L. Lakin
Deborah Nelson
Gerald J. Presbury
Hershel P. Wall
Robert V. Walling
Judy W. Wood

Plastic Surgery
Robert D. Wallace

Pulmonology
Robert A. Schoumacher (Pediatric)

Radiology
Thomas F. Boulden
James W. Langston
William Webster Riggs, Jr.
W. Chapman Smith

Rheumatology
Stanley B. Kaplan

Surgery
Guy Voeller

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