Cities are often judged by the quality of their doctors — the brilliance, ingenuity, dedication, and compassion that shapes their work with individual patients. Memphis is fortunate to claim many outstanding physicians who devote their careers to medical research and treatment. In light of their contributions, we offer this list of the top doctors in Memphis.
The list was compiled by the New York-based research group, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which annually conducts national surveys of the best doctors in America. Their physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select the best physicians on both regional and national levels, and in various fields, from cardiovascular and endocrinology, to internal medicine and hematology.
The list is arranged alphabetically by specialty. Within each specialty, we provide the doctors’ names, hospital affiliations, the names and addresses of their groups or clinics, their phone numbers, and their areas of expertise.
We hope this survey’s results will lead you, our readers, not only to the most acclaimed physicians in a specific field, but will also shed light on the caliber of medical care and research taking place right here in Memphis.
Following the Top Docs listing are informative profiles of area physicians and their practices, beginning on page 74. We hope this entire package will help you choose a physician when you, or a member of your family, requires one.
Dr. James D. Eason | Surgery
Methodist University Hospital
Even in tragedies, good fortune can emerge. That’s been true for Dr. James Eason, who says Hurricane Katrina blew him to Memphis. When the storm struck New Orleans in 2005, he and his colleagues lived in the transplant clinic at Ochsner Medical Center. “We were protected by the levees from flooding,” he recalls, “but rainwater poured through broken windows and skylights.” The clinic closed for awhile, but Eason stayed put, hoping to ride out the devastation. His patients, however, were forced to relocate or seek transplant services elsewhere.
Serendipitously, Eason — who was born in Memphis and grew up in Jackson, Tennessee — had already been contacted about a position here. And in April 2006, he was named Chief of Transplantation Surgery at Methodist University Hospital and Program Director of its Transplant Institute, which is a partnership between Methodist and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Today the program ranks among the largest in the nation. “The year before I came, only 35 liver transplants were performed,” says Eason. “Now we do over 120 a year. We also perform more than 100 kidney transplants.”
In addition to ranking in the top 10 liver transplant programs for the past four years, “we have the world’s largest experience of liver transplant patients who have never received steroids,” he explains. “Steroids have been a primary anti-rejection medication but they have lots of side effects.” Instead, says Eason, the Institute’s protocol is to give patients two doses of intravenous antibody to inhibit the cells that cause rejection. And the program’s 90 percent success rate — which means 90 percent of liver transplant patients are alive a year after surgery — is higher than the national average.
Eason graduated from UT medical school, trained in transplant surgery at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and has performed more than 1,000 liver transplants alone. He credits his team of liver, kidney, and pancreas specialists and surgeons for the program’s excellent outcome, and says, “We’ve built the trust of referring physicians in the community.”
While 80 percent of the Institute’s patients are from the Mid-South, its reputation attracts worldwide referrals. Perhaps its most famous patient has been Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who in 2009 received a liver transplant as treatment for a rare type of tumor. Some controversy arose about whether Jobs received special status because of his fame. But Eason says that Jobs was at the highest risk of death within three months at the time of his surgery. The Model for Endstage Liver Disease (MELD) score uses three lab values that predict mortality. “His score was the highest,” says Eason, who performed the surgery.
More common causes for liver transplants are hepatitis C — which many patients contracted through tainted blood at blood banks in the 1970s and ’80s — primary liver cancer, and fatty liver. The latter is related to obesity, and part of the institute’s mission is educating people about lifestyle changes.
While the MELD score predicts who gets a liver transplant, kidneys are allocated based on waiting time and donor match. “Patients with kidney disease are usually maintained on dialysis,” says Eason, “and we do know the longer someone is on dialysis, the greater their risk of death. So waiting time is important.” The average wait for a new kidney is two to three years. For a liver, it may be a few days or weeks, and some with a lower MELD score may wait longer. Because the supply of organs is always limited, Eason says the Institute aggressively seeks donors.
As for returning to his native city, Eason declares, “Memphis was originally my home and I’m happy to say my daughters [ages 17 and 20] consider it home as well.” Though his father and great-grandfather were physicians, his daughters are charting other career paths — one in psychology, the other in art or architecture. Says Eason with a laugh, “I think I scared them away from medical school.” — Marilyn Sadler
Patricia M. Flynn | Pediatric Infectious Disease
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
They say time heals all wounds, and, one way or another, it does. But Dr. Patricia Flynn can’t help but wonder what’s in store for the patients she has yet to meet, and what might have been for the ones she couldn’t save.
Flynn is the Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She’s also the hospital’s Arthur Ashe Chair in Pediatric AIDS Research, Director of the Translational Trials Unit, and Co-leader of HIV Therapeutics & Vaccine Development (CIDC).
She’s worked in Infectious Diseases since the department’s inception in 1987 and has been following the HIV-AIDS pandemic almost since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first announced it in 1981. (HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.)
If Flynn is anything, she is a student of time’s reversals. She’s felt the helplessness that comes from losing a game of clinical beat-the-clock, and she’s also intimately acquainted with the hope that a new or better therapy can bring.
“There have been so many times I’ve seen a patient and thought, God, if you’d have been five years later [with your disease], we could have helped you,” she says. “And now I think what will we have in five years that we don’t have now? We’ve got to find that out.”
Flynn came to Memphis in 1981 to complete her pediatric residency through a joint program between St. Jude and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. After working with some of the earliest pediatric AIDS cases, Flynn was recruited to help launch St. Jude’s pediatric HIV-AIDS program. Hospital officials had recognized the disease’s catastrophic implications and the different types of cancer that patients tended to develop after contracting the virus. “So there was this natural linkage between cancer and HIV,” she says. And, as with cancer, researchers realized managing AIDS would require a series of treatments. Even now, at least three drugs must be taken to control symptoms. “The amount of knowledge we’ve gained about HIV has grown exponentially since then,” Flynn says.
With support from the National Institutes of Health, Flynn and others embarked on a clinical trial of a then-experimental drug that later became a powerful tool in disrupting the disease. “Part of the data we collected here was to use didanosine to treat HIV-infected children,” she says. Later, around 1994, the NIH chose Flynn’s department to study children and pregnant women infected with HIV. That study demonstrated that giving the drug AZT to women during pregnancy reduced the transmission rate from mother to baby by about two-thirds.
But in the early days, an AIDS diagnosis almost always amounted to a death sentence. Flynn remembers the case of a little boy who had developed acute myeloid leukemia in the mid-’80s. His prognosis wasn’t hopeful, but he managed to survive, only to become infected with HIV after a blood transfusion. Because of his suppressed immune system, the child contracted a severe form of pneumonia before he could gain access to experimental AZT treatments.
“We were working very diligently to get this patient [into] a clinical research study in North Carolina, but he died before we could get the drug,” Flynn says. Her professional mask slips for a moment as the emotions wash through her. “Those are the patients you think about,” she says.
Ultimately, her goal and the goal of her colleagues is to find a cure for AIDS. But the likelihood of such a breakthrough anytime soon is doubtful, she says.
“Part of the issue is that the virus integrates itself into the host’s cells, and all the drugs we have now are designed to interrupt the virus replicating,” she says. “When you remove the pressure of the drugs, [the virus] begins to replicate again.”
Will Flynn and her team discover a cure? Only time will tell. — Lindsay Jones
Dr. Daniel C. Martin | Reproductive Endocrinology
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Dr. Dan Martin’s whole family is involved in medicine; his father was a physician, and his grandmother nudged her children into the field as well. After graduating from medical school at Emory University and completing his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Martin moved to Memphis in 1977 to stay close to family. Immediately he was immersed in the rigorous atmosphere of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
“At the time I made the decision, the department had three sub-specialties — oncology, high-risk obstetrics, and reproductive endocrinology,” says Martin. “I fit the last one best, because I like surgery, long-term care of patients, and establishing relationships with people.”
He practices a combination of reproductive endocrinology and routine gynecology, while serving as Divisional Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery for UT Medical Group, Inc. The bulk of Martin’s surgical research focuses on endometriosis, a common condition in which tissues typically occurring in the pelvic area behave like the cells lining the uterus (endometrium) and grow in other areas of the body, causing pain, irregular bleeding, and possible infertility. Martin has published 41 papers on the subject, which can be found in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s biomedical citation database. And almost half of the infertility cases he treats are the result of endometriosis.
Some treatments he recommends for the condition are as simple as over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs, like Aleve and Advil. Beyond that, he says, “birth control pills work well, and the hormone progestin. Other medications have more side effects, including one that actually knocks out brain hormones to make a woman’s body behave as if she’s going through menopause.”
In addition to offering medical therapies, Martin also treats endometriosis with laparoscopic surgery, which is minimally invasive and results in reduced pain and hemorrhaging and a shorter recovery period. “About half of my patients can be taken care of with one small incision in their belly button,” says Martin.
Of the patients he sees, 60 percent experience infertility, and the condition encompasses a wide range of physical and emotional factors that may be attributed to either the female or the male partner. Martin often suggests treating infertility without the use of test tubes, or in vitro fertilization. For women with hormonal imbalances, alternatives include the use of estrogen-inducing clomiphene, a widely used fertility drug; and Metformin, a medication for diabetics that not only reduces glucose levels but can lower testosterone as well.
Martin sticks to the least intrusive, most practical methods for his patients, some of whom are male. “We occasionally get men who have abnormal sperm count. For some reason clomiphene also works on them as well as women,” he says. “We also use hCG [human chorionic gonadotropin] injections, a hormone that stimulates the pituitary gland in the brain. About 1 percent of men who have infertility actually have a defect in the brain that prevents it from making enough hormones. In those men the success rate for using hormonal therapy is very high.”
Along with patients seeking help for infertility, Martin also counsels pregnant women, stressing the importance of optimal health to a normal delivery.
And whether women are trying to get pregnant or have already conceived, he recommends the vital supplement, folic acid. “You need to be on that at least three months before you try to get pregnant in order to decrease the chance of Caesarean section and hypertension,” says Martin. “You also want stay on prenatal vitamins with folic acid while you’re pregnant to decrease the chance of a neural tube defect” — which is an opening in the spinal cord or brain and occurs in one in 1,000 live births in the U.S. As for hypertension, he adds, “Pregnant patients are more prone to developing high blood pressure than others. It’s just a natural part of the process.” — Ashley Johnston
Giancarlo Mari | Maternal Fetal Medicine
Regional Medical Center
Every baby is a miracle. Some, though, need a little help from lifesavers like Dr. Giancarlo Mari. Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Mari helped deliver a baby girl in 2005 who weighed 360 grams, less than a single pound. Today, that child is healthy and happy. A miracle.
A native of Salerno, Italy, Mari studied medicine at the University of Naples before he started globe-trotting as he built his career in a field — maternal fetal medicine — ready to explode with advances in the mid-Eighties. He cites mentors in Parma, London, and Rotterdam as inspiration for developing his specialty and looks back to his move to the United States — first to Houston, in 1987 — as the launch of a career that has made fetal development safer for both mothers and babies.
“I thought at the time that medicine in the United States was tops in the world,” says Mari. “To go to the United States, for a doctor in Europe, was like a second graduation. Initially, it was like a vacation. But I started to see the kind of medicine practiced in this country. It’s where I wanted to practice. I had to start from scratch.” Mari landed a residency at Yale University — world-renowned for maternal fetal medicine — and trained in New Haven for ten years. After Yale, Mari worked and taught at the University of Virginia, Cincinnati, and Wayne State (in Detroit) before joining the UTHSC faculty in 2008.
“I saw the high number of infant deaths in Memphis,” reflects Mari, “and the population of this area interested me. In Memphis, I thought, maybe I can help. I’ve been a part of research that has changed the standard of [maternal/fetal] care.
“Fifteen years ago, we were doing a lot of invasive procedures,” he continues, “sticking needles in the belly of a patient, taking blood from the umbilical cord to see if the baby was anemic. Unfortunately, many babies died because of these procedures. Most of the time, the procedures were unnecessary, but it was how we were practicing.”
Shortly after his arrival in America, Mari began research on the possibilities of using ultrasound to detect fetal anemia. “Many people were skeptical at the time, because it was so simple,” says Mari. “I was one of a very few in the world doing this for ten years. Finally, I was able to put together a multicenter study that was published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2000. Slowly, people started using this technique, and the number of invasive procedures decreased. It’s become a standard of care. Today, we barely do any invasive procedures. Many babies are having happy and healthy lives thanks to this technique.”
One of Mari’s more recent battles has been against Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome, a heartbreaking condition in which identical twins who share a single placenta suffer from an imbalance in blood flow. One baby takes in too much blood and produces too much urine, while the second is deprived of the necessary fluids. Untreated, both twins usually die.
A new technique — laser ablation of vascular communication — allows doctors to intervene. “We place an endoscope within the belly of the mom,” explains Mari, “near the baby [with excessive fluid]. We look into the placenta, to find where the [blood transfer] is, and we interrupt the communication. It’s like having two placentas. Blood doesn’t transfer any more. This procedure is the best form of therapy, but it’s not perfect. We still see babies with problems, and some still die. But if we didn’t do anything, the outcome would be much worse.” With doctors trained in the procedure at Le Bonheur and The Med, Memphis is among the few cities in the country offering this option for unborn twins.
Mari and his wife, Dr. Laura Detti, are raising two children — Michael and Camilla — in Memphis, and the Bluff City has come to feel like home, even for a life-saving globe-trotter. “I’m interested in what’s new,” says Mari. “How can my work continue to help others? People who work with me are excited to come to work. It’s friendly, and we work together for progress.” — Frank Murtaugh
Bettina Ault | Pediatric Nephrology
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Looking back on her career in pediatric nephrology, Dr. Bettina Ault likes to tell people she was born to work in her field of choice. She entered the world, you see, in 1954, the same year as the first living kidney transplant. But it wasn’t until she was in graduate school at Harvard (studying immunology), that her father convinced her to go to medical school. Ault chuckles when reflecting on her dad’s motive: “He really just wanted to make sure I could support myself.” Countless young lives have been improved as a result of Ault’s decision to build a career fighting kidney ailments.
“I’ve always been a science nerd,” says Ault. “I was interested in inflammation and infectious diseases. I was a fourth-year medical student [at UT-Memphis], and there wasn’t an intern or resident on the rotation, so I ended up functioning at a much higher level. I had a wonderful time. Immunology and genetics are involved in nephrology, things I was interested in. It was a good fit, a logical fit.”
After spending much of the 1990s in St. Louis and Chicago, Ault was recruited back to Memphis by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 1997, where she’s now Associate Professor of Pediatrics. “There are no better doctors that I’ve worked with anywhere than here in Memphis,” says Ault.
Active with both St. Jude Children’s Research Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Ault has seen firsthand the advances nephrology has taken over the last quarter-century. Kidney ailments in children are rare, notes Ault, but the challenges kids face with damaged or diseased kidneys can be severe. “We do maybe one-tenth of the transplants that are done with adults,” she explains. “The thing that’s important about treating children with kidney disease is that they have their whole lives ahead of them, and they have issues that are unique to children. Sometimes they don’t grow well. You have to pay really close attention to bone disease if they’re on dialysis.”
Remarkably, a child as small as 22 pounds can receive an adult’s kidney. New and better drugs — calcineurin inhibitors like cyclosporine to prevent transplant rejection — have made kidney transplants easier over the last 20 years, with fewer steroids necessary as a child learns to adapt to a new organ. Ault notes, though, that social hurdles can interfere with a return to normalcy for a recipient. “Our biggest challenge,” she says, “is that teenagers are terrible about taking their [twice daily, anti-rejection] medicine. They have the worst rate of graft loss of anyone except people over 65. They get very busy with their lives, and they often don’t have a routine. There’s also a problem with them not wanting to be different. Peer pressure can be huge.”
Ault finds the loss of a transplanted kidney — due often to a recipient simply not taking medicine regularly — among the most heartbreaking elements of her career. “Your body is so much healthier with a transplant,” emphasizes Ault. “Dialysis ages your body dreadfully. With a properly functioning kidney, you are, for all intents and purposes, normal.”
Among Ault’s passions is an annual camp for kidney patients — some with transplants, some on dialysis — in Lyles, Tennessee. Held in June each year, Camp Okawehna is a reminder to young people that they’re not alone in fighting kidney disease. Peer pressure tends to subside when you see an outdoor dialysis unit.
“Kids get their dialysis treatment with the birds chirping,” explains Ault. “An occasional mouse runs by. They have their treatment, then they can go work on a talent show, or go swimming. It gives these kids a peer group. Sometimes kids with kidney disease have sort of a vulnerable-child syndrome, and they’re not well-socialized. But [at Camp Okawehna], everybody has scars. Everybody has their stories.”
A doctor born at the dawn of the kidney-transplant age finds herself spearheading a movement that should impact generations to come.
“My mission,” she stresses “is to make all my patients happy, normal, productive individuals.” — Frank Murtaugh
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Allergy & Immunology
D. Betty LewLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital777 Washington Ave., Suite P110Memphis, TN 38105448-2010Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, Immune Deficiency
Phillip L. LiebermanBaptist Memorial HospitalMethodist University Hospital7205 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200Germantown, TN 38138757-6100Asthma, Rhinitis, Anaphylaxis, Urticaria
Cardiovascular Disease
Frank A. McGrew IIIBaptist Memorial HospitalStern Cardiovascular Center8060 Wolf River Blvd.Germantown, TN 38138271-1000Congestive Heart Failure, Pacemakers, Acute Coronary Syndromes
Judith E. SobermanBaptist Memorial HospitalUT Medical Group – Cardiology1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Suite 365Memphis, TN 38104866-8803Preventive Cardiology, Arrhythmia
Karl T. WeberRegional Medical CenterMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – CardiologyMedplex Cardiology Clinic880 Madison Ave., Floor 5Memphis, TN 38103545-6969Congestive Heart Failure
Child & Adult Psychiatry
Jerry D. HestonLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalChild & Adolescent Psychiatric Associates1135 Cully Rd., Suite 100Cordova, TN 38016752-1980ADD/ADHD, Depression, Asperger’s Syndrome
Child Neurology
James W. WhelessLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital50 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400Memphis, TN 38103287-5060Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders
Clinical Genetics
Owen P. PhillipsRegional Medical CenterBaptist Memorial HospitalUT Medical Group – Center for High Risk Pregnancies6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 150Memphis, TN 38120866-8085Genetic Prenatal Diagnosis, Pregnancy-High Risk
Jewell C. WardLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital711 Jefferson Ave., Suite 523Memphis, TN 38105866-8818Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Metabolic Genetic Disorders, Phenylketonuria (PKU), Reproductive Genetics
Dermatology
Rex A. AmonetteMemphis Dermatology Clinic1455 Union Ave.Memphis, TN 38104726-6655Skin Cancer, Mohs’ Surgery
Diagnostic Radiology
Harris L. CohenLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalDept. of Radiology, Ground Floor50 N. Dunlap St.Memphis, TN 38103287-6938Pediatric Radiology, Fetal Ultrasound/Obstetrical Imaging, Ultrasound
Gastroenterology
Jaquelyn FleckensteinMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Gastroenterology1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Suite 365Memphis, TN 38104866-8864Liver Disease, Cirrhosis, Hepatitis C
Hematology
Patricia Adams-GravesRegional Medical CenterUT Medical Group – Hematology880 Madison Ave., Floor 5Sickle Cell CenterMemphis, TN 38103545-8535Sickle Cell Disease
Lee S. SchwartzbergBaptist Memorial HospitalThe West Clinic100 N. Humphreys Blvd.Memphis, TN 38120683-0055Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Stem Cell Transplant
Internal Medicine
James E. BaileyRegional Medical CenterUT Medical Group – Internal MedicineMedplex Medicine Clinic880 Madison Ave., Floor 5Memphis, TN 38103545-6969Hypertension, Preventive Medicine
Robert E. MorrisonRegional Medical CenterBaptist Memorial HospitalUT Medical Group – Internal MedicineMedplex Medicine Clinic880 Madison Ave., Floor 5Memphis, TN 38103545-6969Infectious Disease
Kathryn M. RyderVA Medical Center1030 Jefferson Ave.Memphis, TN 38104523-8990Women’s Health
Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Giancarlo MariRegional Medical CenterUT Medical Group – OB/GYN880 Madison Ave., Suite 3D01Memphis, TN 38103448-3700Fetal Therapy, Obstetric Ultrasound, Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
Medical Oncology
Barry BostonSaint Francis HospitalMethodist University HospitalUT Cancer Institute7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 300Germantown, TN 38138752-6131Gastrointestinal Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer, Prostate Cancer
Raymond OsarogiagbonMethodist University HospitalBaptist Memorial HospitalUT Cancer Institute1331 Union Ave., Suite 800Memphis, TN 38104725-1785Esophageal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease
Furhan YunusMethodist University HospitalRegional Medical CenterUT Cancer Institute1331 Union Ave., Suite 800Memphis, TN 38104725-1785Multiple Myeloma, Lymphoma
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Ramasubbareddy DhanireddyRegional Medical CenterLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalUT Medical Group – NeonatologyNewborn Center853 Jefferson Ave., Suite 201Memphis, TN 38103448-5950Neonatology, Prematurity/Low Birth Weight Infants
Neurological Surgery
Frederick A. BoopLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalMethodist University Hospital6325 Humphreys Blvd.Memphis, TN 38120259-5340Pediatric Neurosurgery, Epilepsy, Brain Tumors
Kevin T. FoleyMethodist University HospitalBaptist Memorial HospitalSemmes-Murphey Clinic6325 Humphreys Blvd.Memphis, TN 38120522-7700Spinal Surgery, Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
Jon H. RobertsonMethodist University HospitalUT Dept. of Neurosurgery6325 Humphreys Blvd.Memphis, TN 38120259-5340Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors, Skull Base Surgery, Gamma Knife Surgery
Robert A. SanfordLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital6325 Humphreys Blvd.Memphis, TN 38120259-5340Pediatric Neurosurgery, Brain Tumors-Pediatric
Neurology
Mark S. LeDouxMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Neurology1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Suite 365Memphis, TN 38104866-8811Movement Disorders, Botox Therapy, Deep Brain Stimulation, Dystonia
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Edwin M. Thorpe, Jr.Regional Medical CenterUT Medical Group — OB/GYN880 Madison Ave., Suite 3E01Memphis, TN 38103866-8814Infectious Disease-Gynecologic, AIDS/HIV in Pregnancy-Consultation, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Ophthalmology
Barrett HaikSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalUT Medical Group – Pediatric OphthalmologyHamilton Eye Institute930 Madison Ave., Suite 400Memphis, TN 381037945 Wolf River Blvd.Germantown, TN 38138448-6650Eye Tumors/Cancer, Orbital Diseases
Natalie C. KerrLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalHamilton Eye Institute930 Madison Ave., Suite 400Memphis, TN 381037945 Wolf River Blvd.Germantown, TN 38138448-6650Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus, Cataract-Pediatric, Genetic Disorders-Eye
Matthew W. WilsonSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – OphthalmologyHamilton Eye Institue930 Madison Ave., Suite 200Memphis, TN 38103448-6650Eye Tumors/Cancer, Retinoblastoma, Melanoma-Choroidal (Eye)
Orthopedic Surgery
James H. BeatyLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalCampbell Clinic1400 S. Germantown Rd.Germantown, TN 38138759-3125Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Clubfoot, Fractures-Pediatric
James L. GuytonBaptist Memorial HospitalMethodist Le Bonheur Germantown HospitalCampbell Clinic1400 S. Germantown Rd.Germantown, TN 38138759-3111Joint Replacement, Pelvic Trauma
G. Andrew MurphyBaptist Memorial HospitalCampbell Clinic1400 S. Germantown Rd.Germantown, TN 38138759-3111Foot & Ankle Surgery
Otolaryngology
Sandeep SamantMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Otolaryngology / Head & Neck Surgery7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 220Germantown, TN 38138347-8220Head & Neck Cancer & Surgery, Skull Base Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery, Thyroid & Parathyroid Cancer & Surgery
Pathology
Carolyn M. ChesneyBaptist Memorial HospitalPathology Group of the Mid-South, Inc.7550 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200Germantown, TN 38138226-0652Hematopathology, Bleeding/Coagulation Disorders
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Kanwaljeet Singh AnandLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital50 N. Dunlap St.Memphis, TN 38103287-5925Pain Management, Critical Care
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dennis D. BlackLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital777 Washington Ave., Suite P110Memphis, TN 38105448-2000Nutrition, Obesity
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Daniel M. GreenSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalDept. of Epidemiology & Cancer Control262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 735Memphis, TN 38105595-5915Wilms’ Tumor, Fertility in Cancer Survivors, Cancer Survivors-Late Effects of Therapy
Joseph H. LaverSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., Room C-7045EMemphis, TN 38105595-3532Stem Cell Transplant, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s
Wing-Hang LeungSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., Room C6072, MS 260Bone Marrow Transplant & Cellular TherapyMemphis, TN 38105495-3300Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplant, Cancer Survivors-Late Effects of Therapy
Ching-Hon PuiSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl.Memphis, TN 38105595-3606Leukemia, Lymphoma
Raul RibieroSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., Room S2012, MS 721Memphis, TN 38105595-3694Leukemia, Lymphoma
Winfred C. WangSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 800Memphis, TN 38105595-2051Sickle Cell Disease, Bone Marrow Failure Disorders, Anemia-Aplastic
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Patricia M. FlynnSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., Room Q1114, MS 600Memphis, TN 38105595-2338AIDS/HIV, Infections in Immunocompromised Patients, Clinical Trials
Pediatric Nephrology
Bettina H. AultLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital777 Washington Ave., Suite P110Memphis, TN 38105866-8822Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Kidney Failure, Anemia
Robert J. WyattLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalUT Dept. of Pediatrics777 Washington Ave., Suite P110Memphis, TN 38105448-2070Kidney Disease-Autoimmune, Berger’s Disease (IgA Nephropathy)
Pediatric Pulmonology
Robert SchoumacherLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital777 Washington Ave., Suite P110Memphis, TN 38105287-5222Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep Disorders/Apnea
Pediatric Surgery
Andrew M. DavidoffSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalDept. of SurgeryLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 133Memphis, TN 38105595-4060Neuroblastoma, Cancer Surgery
Pediatrics
Noel K. FrizzellLe Bonheur Children’s HospitalPediatric Consultants777 Washington Ave., Suite P410Memphis, TN 38105523-2945Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Chronic Illness
Radiation Oncology
Larry E. KunSt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalLe Bonheur Children’s Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 220Memphis, TN 38105595-3565Brain Tumors, Pediatric Cancers
Thomas E. MerchantSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 220Memphis, TN 38105595-3565Brain Tumors-Pediatric
Reproductive Endocrinology
William H. KuttehBaptist Memorial HospitalMethodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital80 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 307Memphis, TN 38120747-2229Miscarriage-Recurrent, Infertility
Daniel C. MartinBaptist Memorial HospitalMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – OB/GYN7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 320Germantown, TN 38138347-8320Reproductive Surgery, Infertility, Tubal Ligation Reversal-Microsurgery, Endometriosis
Surgery
Stephen W. BehrmanBaptist Memorial HospitalMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Surgery7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 280Germantown, TN 38138347-8270Gastrointestinal Cancer, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Pancreatic Cancer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
James EasonMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Transplant SurgeryTransplant Institute1265 Union Ave., Room S1011Memphis, TN 38104516-7469Transplant-Kidney, Transplant-Pancreas & Liver, Liver Cancer
Thoracic Surgery
Darryl S. WeimanVA Medical CenterDept. of Surgery1030 Jefferson Ave., Floor 3Memphis, TN 38104577-7352Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lung Cancer
Urology
Anthony L. PattersonUT Medical CenterUT Medical Group — Urology7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 350Germantown, TN 38138347-8350Laparoscopic Surgery, Kidney Stones
Robert W. WakeMethodist University HospitalUT Medical Group – Urology7945 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 350Germantown, TN 38138448-1026Prostate Cancer, Erectile Dysfunction, Kidney Stones, Incontinence
