FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JAN. 27, 2006

The 2006 listing of Best Doctors in America® names more than 80 physicians affiliated with UT Medical Group, Inc. as 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 Health Science Center College of Medicine.

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 in which more than 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 in America® database. (Listed by specialty)

Adolescent Medicine
Sarah B. Stender

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

Anesthesiology
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
Ronnie Rasberry
Robert B. Skinner Jr.

Developmental Pediatrics
David A. Kube (Pediatric)
Frederick Palmer (Pediatric)

Endocrinology
George A. Burghen (Pediatric)
Samuel Dagogo-Jack
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

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

Medical Genetics
Eniko Pivnick (Pediatric)
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)

Neurology
James W. Wheless (Pediatric)

Nuclear Medicine
J. Daniel Massie

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Vanessa Givens
Edward J. Lazarus
Gary H. Lipscomb
Norman L. Meyer
Owen Phillips
Claudette J. Shephard (Pediatric)

Ophthalmology
Edward Chaum
James C. Fleming
Barrett G. Haik
Natalie C. Kerr (Pediatric)
Peter A. Netland
Matthew Wilson

Otolaryngology
Charles Bruce MacDonald
Jerome W. Thompson

Pediatrics (General)
Gail Beeman
Marion Hare
John R. Hill
Valerie P. Jameson
Karen L. Lakin
Deborah Nelson
Gerald J. Presbury
Lien Pham Russell
Robert V. Walling

Plastic Surgery
Robert D. Wallace

Pulmonology
Robert A. Schoumacher (Pediatric)
James D. Tutor (Pediatric)

Radiology
Thomas F. Boulden
Robert Gold
Louis S. Parvey
W. Chapman Smith

Rheumatology
Andrew H. Kang
Linda K. Myers (Pediatric)

Surgery
Martin Croce
Timothy Fabian
F. Elizabeth Pritchard
Guy Voeller

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