Department of Medicine, Faculty

The Department of Medicine has 120 faculty members and 148 volunteer faculty representing general internal medicine and all internal medicine subspecialties. The chairman of the department is Guy L. Reed, MD, Professor of Medicine.

The department has a long history of excellence in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows. The department has also achieved national and international recognition for its clinical and basic science research activities. These endeavors range from the pathogenesis of connective tissue disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever to more clinically oriented problems such as hypertension, lipid disorders, health maintenance and prevention and clinical oncology trials. Residents have the opportunity to participate in the on-going research projects during research electives.

Division of Circulatory Diseases

Pranab Das, MD
Richard C. Davis, MD
Dwight Dishmon, MD
Howard Horn, MD
Santhosh Koshy, MD
Ahmad Munir, MD
Kevin Newman, MD
K.B. Ramanathan, MD
Guy Reed, MD
John Riddle, MD
Judith Soberman, MD
Yao Sun, MD
Karl, Weber, MD

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Division of Emergency Medicine

Tasha Ford, MD
Ethelynn Johnson, MD
Lisa Mahan, MD
Antonio Martinez, MD
Andrew Pierce, MD
Carlos Shammas, MD
Chantay Smartt, MD
Michelle Surbrook, MD

Division of Endocrinology

Samuel Dagogo Jack, MD
Joseph Fisher, MD
Ivan Gerling, MD
Thomas Hughes, MD
Abbas Kitabchi, MD
Cesar Magsino, MD
Ebenezer, Nyenwe, MD
Solomon Solomon, MD
Frankie Stentz, MD
Beverly Williams Cleaves, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Joel Bessoff, MD
Farees Farooq, MD
Faquelyn Fleckenstein, MD
Mohammad Ismail, MD
Barbara Kay Jackson, MD
Michael Levinson, MD
Myron Lewis, MD
Charles Mansbach, MD
Christopher Marino, MD
Claudio Tombazzi, MD
Bradford Waters, MD

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Division of General Internal Medicine

Patricia Adams-Graves, MD
Raza Askari, MD
James Bailey, MD
Asad Chaudhary, MD
Sandra Cohen, MD
Craig Dorko, MD
Jimmie Dotson, MD
Marion Dugdale, MD
Nabeel Farooqui, MD
Syed Haider, MD
Mohammad Hajjar, MD
Burton Hayes, MD
Lisa Jennings, MD
Suzanne Moore, MD
R. Edward Morrison, MD
Shelley Ost, MD
Mario Ray, MD
Kathryn Ryder, MD
Salman Sarwar, MD
Laura Sprabery, MD
Bruce Steinhauer, MD
Meghan Sullivan, MD
Natascha Thompson, MD
Catherine Womack, MD
Xin Zhang, MD

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Division of Infectious Diseases

Susan Brewer, MD
Jeffrey Brint, MD
Kerry Cleveland, MD
Cathy Corbett, MD
Harry Courtney, MD
James Dale, MD
James Fleckenstein, MD
Michael Gelfand, MD
Cynthia King, MD
Mack Land, MD
John Norwood, MD
Ellen Whitnack, MD

Division of Nephrology

Ahmed Al-Absi, MD
William Bastnagel, MD
R. Brad Canada, MD
C. Robert Cooke, MD
Lekha George, MD
Christie Green, MD
Kim Huch, MD
Maung Mya, MD
Adnan Naseer, MD
Arif Showkat, MD
Barry Wall, MD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Amado Freire, MD
John Griffin, MD
A. Stacey Headley, MD
G. Umberto Meduri, MD
Muthiah Muthiah, MD
Scott Sinclair, MD
Jose Yataco, MD
Muhammad Zaman, MD

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Division of Rheumatology

Laura Carbone, MD
Andrew Kang, MD
Debendra Pattanaik, MD
Arnold Postlethwaite, MD
John Stuart, MD

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Contact Us

Internal Medicine Residency Program

956 Court Avenue, Room H314
Memphis, Tennessee 38163
Phone: 901-448-5814
Toll Free: 800-733-1846
Fax: 901-448-7836
Susan Andrews, Coordinator: sandrew8@uthsc.edu

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