Author: Memphis Flyer

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of top physicians in the Memphis/Shelby County area. Established in 1989, Best Doctors bases its lists on surveys of local physicians. Doctors cannot pay to be on the list. Of course, no list is definitive, and if your physician is not included, it does not reflect negatively on his or her abilities. Any survey, no matter how it’s conducted, is subjective. The Flyer is providing this list as an informational service to its readers.

Allergy and Immunology

Michael S. Blaiss

Allergy and Asthma Care

7205 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-6100

Mary Ellen Conley

St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital

Department of Immunology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2576

Phillip L. Lieberman

Allergy and Asthma Care

7205 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-6100

Christie F. Michael

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Allergy and

Immunology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area One

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6224

George H. Treadwell III

Allergy and Asthma Care

7205 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-6100

Anesthesiology

Dennis A. Higdon

Medical Anesthesia Group

1755 Kirby Parkway,

Suite 330

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-725-5846

Raj Stephens

Metropolitan Anesthesia

Alliance

1900 Exeter Road, Suite 210

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-818-2160

Cardiovascular Disease

Steven Gubin

Stern Cardiovascular Center

8060 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-271-1000

Paul G. Hess

Memphis Heart Clinic

Professional Building, Suite 111

6025 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-818-0300

Howard R. Horn

UT Medical Group, Inc.

877 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-4039

Frank A. McGrew III

Stern Cardiovascular Center

8060 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-271-1000

Kevin P. Newman

UT Medical Group, Inc.

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 120

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-448-7700

Guy Leland Reed III

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Cardiovascular Disease

Coleman Building, Room D334

956 Court Avenue

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-5752

Stacy Smith

Memphis Heart Clinic

6025 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 111

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-818-0300

Critical Care Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary

Specialists

5050 Poplar Avenue, Suite 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Emmel B. Golden, Jr.

Memphis Lung Physicians

6025 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 508

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-5864

Dermatology

Rex A. Amonette

Memphis Dermatology

Clinic

1455 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-726-6655

Thomas P. Chu

520 Trinity Creek Cove

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-755-2511

Frank G. Witherspoon

Memphis Dermatology

Clinic

1455 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-726-6655

Emergency Medicine

Joseph E. Holley, Jr.

Baptist Memorial

Hospital-Collierville

Department of

Emergency Medicine

1500 West Poplar Avenue

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-861-9000

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 South Rex Road

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

Regional Medical Center

Division of Endocrinology

880 Madison Avenue

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

Maher Ghawji

Endocrinology Associates

of Memphis Medical Plaza II Office

Building, Suite 307

6027 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-681-0346

Ralph C. Goodman

Endocrinology Associates

of Memphis

Medical Plaza II Office

Building, Suite 307

6027 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-681-0346

Thomas A. Hughes

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department

of Endocrinology

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 120

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-448-7000

Harold Samuel Sacks

Endocrinology Associates

of Memphis

Medical Plaza II Office

Building, Suite 307

6027 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-681-0346

Beverly J. Williams-Cleaves

UT Medical Group, Inc.

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-4801

Family Medicine

Oran Lee Berkenstock

Primary Care Specialists

3109 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38111

Phone: 901-458-0162

Lyle G. Bohlman

UT Medical Group, Inc.

St. Francis Family

Practice Center

1301 Primacy Parkway

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8812

Timothy E. Folse

St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Robert A. Humphreys

Humphreys Family

Practice Clinic

5220 Park Avenue, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-685-8245

Lee W. McCallum

Family Physicians Group

400 Market Boulevard, Suite 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-752-6963

G. Scott Morris

Church Health Center

1210 Peabody Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Calvin J. Mullins

Family Physicians Group

8110 Cordova Road, Suite 111

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-752-6963

Michele E. Neal

Family Physicians Group

3091 Kirby Whitten Road

Bartlett, TN 38134

Phone: 901-752-6963

Susan F. Nelson

718 Harbor Bend Road

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-522-1555

Jeffery S. Warren

Primary Care Specialists

3109 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38111

Phone: 901-458-0162

J. Kenneth Wong

Family Physicians Group

3091 Kirby Whitten Road

Bartlett, TN 38134

Phone: 901-752-6963

Charles J. Woodall

Family Physicians Group

7685 Winchester Road

Memphis, TN 38125

Phone: 901-752-6963

Melanie L. Woodall

Family Physicians Group

7685 Winchester Road

Memphis, TN 38125

Phone: 901-752-6963

Gastroenterology

Edward L. Cattau

Memphis Gastroenterology

Group

8000 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-3630

Robert Kerlan

Memphis Medical

6005 Park Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-2100

Myron Lewis

Memphis Gastroenterology

Group

8000 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-3630

Geriatric Medicine

Derene Akins

Cresthaven Internal

Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Road, Suite 105

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Hand Surgery

James Calandruccio

Campbell Clinic

1400 S. Germantown Road

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Mark Jobe

Campbell Clinic

1400 S. Germantown Road

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Infectious Disease

Kerry O. Cleveland

UT Medical Group, Inc.

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 360

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-448-7000

Michael S. Gelfand

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Division of

Infectious Diseases

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 460

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-448-5770

Mack A. Land

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Infectious Diseases

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 365

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-448-7008

Bryan P. Simmons

Infectious Disease Associates

188 South Bellevue Street, Suite 408

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-516-8231

Stephen Threlkeld

5210 Poplar Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-685-3490

Internal Medicine

Joseph E. Allen II

Sanders Clinic

6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-525-1438

Anita Lynn Arnold

The West Clinic

Department of

Internal Medicine

100 North Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

John Roger Austin

Sanders Clinic

6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-525-1438

James E. Bailey

Regional Medical Center

Medplex Ambulatory

Care Center

880 Madison Avenue, Suite 5C-01

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

J. Hays Brantley

Southwind Medical

Specialists

5182 Sanderlin Avenue, Suite Three

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-685-0152

Ann D. Brown

Foundation Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Circle

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

John Buttross

Cresthaven Internal

Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Road, Suite 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Felix L. Caldwell

Lifesigns of Memphis

1714 West Massey Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-5520

Tommy Campbell

Cresthaven Internal

Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Road, Suite 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Mark S. Edwards

Internal Medicine East

8138 Country Village Drive

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-755-5556

Cary Martin Finn

6025 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 301

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3321

E. Arthur Franklin

Cresthaven Internal

Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Road, Suite 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Lynda J. Freeland

Foundation Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Circle

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Health Care

574 Greentree Cove

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Health Care

574 Greentree Cove

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Burton Hayes

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Internal Medicine

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 120

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-448-7000

Mary M. Hurley

7514 Corporate Center

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-5333

Gregory K. Jenkins

Internal Medicine East

8138 Country Village Drive

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-755-5556

David Jennings

Church Health Center

1196 Peabody Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Oakley Jordan

Midtown Internal Medicine

48 South Prescott Street

Memphis, TN 38111

Phone: 901-454-5117

Robert E. Morrison

UT Medical Group, Inc.

MedPlex Medicine Clinic

880 Madison Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-545-7185

Charles W. Munn

Bartlett Internal

Medicine Group

6570 Summer Oaks Cove

Memphis, TN 38134

Phone: 901-373-7100

H. Howard Nease

Internal Medicine East

8138 Country Village Drive

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-755-5556

G. Van Dyck Rushing

Cresthaven Internal

Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Road, Suite 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Kathryn M. Ryder

VA Medical Center

Medical Service Department

1030 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-577-7255

Vincent D. Smith

Internal Medicine Associates

of Memphis

6025 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 627

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-763-1695

Martha N. Taylor

Foundation Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Circle

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

Natascha Thompson

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Internal Medicine

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 120

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-448-7000

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

William T. Weiss

1068 Cresthaven Road, Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-5542

Catherine Womack

UT Medical Group, Inc.

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 120

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-448-7000

David B. Wright

Cordova Internal Medicine

Cordova Medical Plaza, Suite 200

8066 Walnut Run Road

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-751-9794

Internal Medicine/ Hospital Medicine

James B. Lewis, Jr.

VA Medical Center

Education Services

1030 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-523-8990

Wiley Robinson

Inpatient Physicians

of the Mid-South

6263 Poplar Avenue, Suite 1052

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-6157

Medical Genetics

Eniko Pivnick

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-266-8815

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Genetics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-6595

R. Sidney Wilroy

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities

711 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-6595

Medical Oncology and Hematology

Reed Carl Baskin

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

1331 Union Avenue, Suite 800

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-725-1785

Barry Boston

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

Division of Hematology

and Oncology

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 300

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-6131

Salil Goorha

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

1331 Union Avenue, Suite 800

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-722-3627

Robert Alan Johnson

The West Clinic

Department of Hematology

and Medical Oncology

100 North Humphreys Blvd.

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

Raymond Osarogiagbon

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

1331 Union Avenue, Suite 800

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-725-1785

Thomas Ratliff

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

Division of Hematology

and Oncology

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 300

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-6131

Lee Schwartzberg

The West Clinic

Department of Hematology

and Medical Oncology

100 North Humphreys Blvd.

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

Kurt Tauer

The West Clinic

Department of Hematology

and Medical Oncology

100 North Humphreys Blvd.

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

William K. Walsh

Family Cancer Clinic

2996 Kate Bond Road

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-379-0703

Albert Earle Weeks

Integrity Oncology

6286 Briarcrest Avenue, Suite 308

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-680-5190

Furhan Yunus

University of Tennessee

Cancer Institute

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 300

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-722-3627

Nephrology

Steven J. Schwab

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center

Department of Nephrology

University Plaza, Suite 1002

1020 Madison Avenue

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-4140

Neurological Surgery

Frederick Boop

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-5321

Glenn A. Crosby II

6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 409

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-4594

Kevin T. Foley

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-5322

Jon H. Robertson

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

Department of Neurosurgery

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Robert Alex Sanford

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

Department of Pediatric

Neurosurgery

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Maurice M. Smith

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

Department of Neurosurgery

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 800-727-0761

Clarence B. Watridge

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Neurology

Tulio E. Bertorini

Wesley Neurology Clinic

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 400

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-725-8920

Stephen H. Landy

Wesley Headache and

Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Parkway, Suite 101

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-753-4093

Mark LeDoux

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Neurology

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 365

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-866-8811

Michael C. Levin

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine

Institute

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-259-5340

Ronald Pfeiffer

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center

Department of Neurology

855 Monroe Avenue

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-259-5340

William A. Pulsinelli

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and

Spine Institute

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-259-5340

Nuclear Medicine

John S. Buchignani, Jr.

Mid-South Imaging

and Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Laura Joanne Bishop

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Heather P. Chauhan

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Thomas H. Crenshaw

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Laura Detti

Fertility Associates

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center, Suite 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Joseph DeWane

Memphis Obstetrics

and Gynecology

6246 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-4491

Vanessa Givens

UT Medical Group, Inc.

1301 Primacy Parkway

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-448-0275

Thomas L. Gray

ObGyn Associates

of the Mid-South

7705 Poplar Avenue, Suite 240

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-791-9800

Raymond W. Ke

Fertility Associates

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center, Suite 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

A. Franklin Kennedy

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

T. Franklin King

Baptist Memorial Hospital

for Women

Adams Patterson Gynecology

and Obstetrics

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 301

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3810

William H. Kutteh

Fertility Associates

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center, Suite 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Frank W. Ling

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Gary H. Lipscomb

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Family Medicine

1301 Primacy Parkway

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-448-0275

Diane M. Long

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Giancarlo Mari

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Division of Maternal and

Fetal Medicine

880 Madison Avenue, Suite 3D-01

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-3700

Daniel C. Martin

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Obstetrics

and Gynecology

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 320

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-347-8331

Mary N. McDonald

McDonald Murrmann

Women’s Clinic

7205 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 150

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4500

Christine S. Mestemacher

7918 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-624-4444

Norman L. Meyer

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Division of Maternal and

Fetal Medicine

880 Madison Avenue, Suite 3D-01

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-3700

Susan G. Murrmann Price

McDonald Murrmann

Women’s Clinic

7205 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 150

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4500

Owen P. Phillips

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Center for High-Risk

Pregnancies

853 Jefferson Avenue, Room E102

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-866-8085

Greg Portera

Baptist Memorial Hospital

for Women

Center for Urinary and

Pelvic Disorders

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 110

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-227-9610

Joseph T. Santoso

The West Clinic

1588 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-322-0251

Michael B. Schneider

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Center for High-Risk

Pregnancies

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 201

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-866-8085

Linda M. Smiley

The West Clinic

Department of Gynecologic

Oncology

100 North Humphreys Blvd.

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

Thomas G. Stovall

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Henry Paul Sullivant, Jr.

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Robert L. Summitt, Jr.

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Todd David Tillmanns

The West Clinic

Department of Gynecologic

Oncology

100 North Humphreys Blvd.

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-0055

Val Y. Vogt

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Judith Jordan Williams

Baptist Memorial Hospital

for Women

Adams Patterson Gynecology

and Obstetrics

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 301

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3810

Ophthalmology

Steven Thomas Charles

Charles Retina Institute

6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 190

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-4499

Edward Chaum

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-6650

James C. Fleming

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Ophthalmology

930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-6650

Subba R. Gollamudi

Eye Specialty Group

825 Ridge Lake Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-2200

Barrett G. Haik

St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital

Department of

Ophthalmology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-6650

Ralph F. Hamilton

Rice Eye Associates

6238 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-4292

Gary Passons

909 Ridgeway Loop

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-1112

Richard E. Sievers

Midsouth Retina

O’Ryan Building, Suite 624B

6005 Park Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-682-1100

Orthopaedic Surgery

Frederick Martin Azar

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-759-5432

Jeffrey Dlabach

Ortho One

99 Market Center Drive

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-861-9610

Barney L. Freeman III

Campbell Clinic

1458 West Poplar, Suite 100

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-759-3111

James Wilson Harkess

Campbell Clinic

1458 West Poplar, Suite 100

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-759-3111

Randall L. Holcomb

Ortho Memphis

Briarcrest Professional

Building, Suite 200

6286 Briarcrest Avenue

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1600

David G. Lavelle

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Michael H. Lynch

Memphis Orthopaedic

Group

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 260

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-381-4664

Robert H. Miller III

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Michael D. Neel

Ortho Memphis

Briarcrest Professional

Building

6286 Briarcrest Avenue

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1600

Edward A. Perez

Campbell Clinic

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-759-3111

Barry B. Phillips

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3100

Thomas A. Russell

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center

Campbell Clinic

1211 Union Avenue, Suite 500

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-850-5869

George W. Wood II

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Otolaryngology

Neal S. Beckford

Otolaryngology Associates

of the Mid-South

7675 Wolf River Circle, Suite 202

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-737-3021

John R. Emmett

Shea Ear Clinic

6133 Poplar Pike

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-9720

Dean A. Klug

Mid-South Ear, Nose

and Throat

6286 Briarcrest Avenue, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-755-5300

Thomas E. Long

Otolaryngology Associates

of the Mid-South

7675 Wolf River Circle, Suite 202

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-737-3021

Mark A. Milburn

Mid-South Ear, Nose

and Throat

6286 Briarcrest Avenue, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-755-5300

B. Manrin Rains III

Mid-South Ear, Nose

and Throat

8090 Walnut Run Road

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-755-5300

John J. Shea III

Shea Center for Ears

6401 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-1234

John Touliatos

Mid-South Ear, Nose

and Throat

6286 Briarcrest Avenue, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-755-5300

Pathology

Thomas R. Callihan

Pathology Group

of the Mid-South

Trumbull Lab

7550 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-542-6800

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Michael S. Blaiss

Allergy and Asthma Care

7205 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-6100

Mary Ellen Conley

St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital

Department of Immunology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2576

Joe S. Levy

5575 Poplar Avenue, Suite 708

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-682-0430

D. Betty Lew

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Allergy

and Immunology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area One

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6224

Christie F. Michael

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Allergy

and Immunology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area One

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6224

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Claudette J. Shephard

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Center for High-Risk

Pregnancies

6215 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 201

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-866-8085

Pediatric Cardiology

Bruce S. Alpert

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Cardiology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Nancy A. Chase

805 Estate Place, Suite One

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-287-4150

Vijaya M. Joshi

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Division of Pediatric

Cardiology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 215

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-5192

Benjamin Rush Waller

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Cardiology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2020

Glenn Wetzel

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Division of Pediatric

Cardiology

Physicians Office Building, Suite 350

777 Washington Avenue

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8817

Pediatric Critical Care

K. J. S. Anand

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Pediatrics

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Mark C. Bugnitz

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

UT Medical Group

Department of Pediatric

Critical Care

50 North Dunlap Street, Fourth Floor

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6756

Samir Shah

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Pediatric

Critical Care

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6321

Stephanie Ann Storgion

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

UT Medical Group

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Pediatric Developmental and Behavioral Problems

David A. Kube

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Boling Center for

Developmental Disabilities

711 Jefferson Avenue, Second Floor

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-6511

Frederick Palmer

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities

711 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-6928

Pediatric Endocrinology

George A. Burghen

St. Francis Medical Arts

Pavilion, Suite 413

2996 Kate Bond Boulevard

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-384-0065

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 South Rex Road

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dennis D. Black

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 250

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-866-8821

John K. Eshun

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Gastroenterology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Linda F. Lazar

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P110

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-7642

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Banu Aygun

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Place, Room S4039

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 800-349-4334

Wayne L. Furman

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Amar Gajjar

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Neuro-Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Daniel Michael Green

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Epidemiology and

Cancer Control

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-5915

Jane Hankins

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Place, Room R5037

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2051

Scott C. Howard

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Leukemia and Lymphoma

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3606

Melissa Hudson

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3335

Hiroto Inaba

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Leukemia and Lymphoma

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3606

Sima Jeha

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Javier R. Kane

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Palliative and End-of-Life Care Program

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Joseph H. Laver

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Pediatrics

332 North Lauderdale Street

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6476

Alberto S. Pappo

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Solid Tumor

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6110

Gerald J. Presbury

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Department of Pediatric Hematology

and Oncology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 110,

Area Four

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-7000

Ching-Hon Pui

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3335

Raul C. Ribeiro

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

John T. Sandlund

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Victor M. Santana

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-495-2800

Sheri L. Spunt

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Division of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place, Room S6011

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3984

Winfred C. Wang

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Place, Room R5036

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3497

Russell E. Ware

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Pediatric

Infectious Disease

Elisabeth E. Adderson

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Infectious

Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Place, Room E8054

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: Not Available

Sandra Arnold

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Infectious Disease

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2080

Steven C. Buckingham

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Infectious Disease

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area Two

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2070

P. Joan Chesney

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Pediatrics

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6292

John P. Devincenzo

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Infectious Disease

Physicians Office Building, Suite P-110

777 Washington Avenue

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-4582

B. Keith English

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Infectious Disease

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-572-5085

Patricia M. Flynn

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of

Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-495-2338

Aditya Gaur

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Translational Trials Unit

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-5067

Jonathan A. McCullers

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of

Infectious Disease

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Jerry L. Shenep

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Information

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Pediatric Nephrology

Bettina H. Ault

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Nephrology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2070

Russell W. Chesney

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Pediatrics

50 North Dunlap Street, Suite 306

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6106

Deborah P. Jones

UT Le Bonheur

Pediatric Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Nephrology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area Three

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Robert J. Wyatt

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Nephrology

777 Washington Avenue

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Frederick Boop

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and

Spine Institute

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-5321

Michael S. Muhlbauer

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and

Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Robert Alex Sanford

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and

Spine Institute

Department of Pediatric

Neurosurgery

6325 Humphreys Boulevard

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Pediatric Nuclear Medicine

Barry L. Shulkin

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Division of

Nuclear Medicine

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3347

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Mary Ellen Hoehn

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of

Ophthalmology

930 Madison Avenue, Suite 400

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-6650

Natalie C. Kerr, Inc.

UT Medical Group

Department of

Ophthalmology

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 240

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-347-8240

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

James H. Beaty

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

S. Terry Canale

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3100

Barney L. Freeman III

Campbell Clinic

1458 Poplar Avenue, Suite 100

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-759-3111

William C. Warner, Jr.

Campbell Clinic

1400 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Jerome W. Thompson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of

Otolaryngology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-4400

Pediatric Pathology

Jesse J. Jenkins III

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Pathology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3516

Pediatric Pulmonology

Robert A. Schoumacher

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area One

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-5222

Dennis Clifton Stokes

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Division of Pediatric

Pulmonary Medicine

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-5222

James D. Tutor

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-5222

Pediatric Radiation Oncology

Matthew James Krasin

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Division of Radiation

Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2620

Larry E. Kun

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiological

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Thomas Merchant

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiological

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Pediatric Radiology

Thomas F. Boulden

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Radiology

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Division of Pediatric

Radiology

50 North Dunlap Street, Ground Floor

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-5901

David Alan Howard

Memphis Radiological

Professional Corporation

1661 International Place Dr., Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-2696

Sue C. Kaste

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiologic

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Robert A. Kaufman

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiological

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-5294

M. Beth McCarville

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiologic

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Stephen F. Miller

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiological

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Louis S. Parvey

Diagnostic Imaging

6401 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-387-2340

Christopher Rickman

Memphis Radiological

Professional Corporation

1661 International Place Dr., Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-2696

Ina Lynn Dyer Tonkin

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Radiology

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Pediatric Rheumatology

Linda K. Myers

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2015

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Robert A. Schoumacher

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area One

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-5222

Pediatric Specialist/ Abused Children

Karen L. Lakin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Pediatric Specialist/ Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy

Regional Medical Center

Rout Center for Women

and Newborns

853 Jefferson Avenue, Suite E-201

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-5950

Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, Epilepsy

James W. Wheless

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatric

Neurology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 240

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2080

Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, General

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Healthcare Sleep

Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Avenue, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/ Pediatric Metabolic Diseases

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Genetics

777 Washington Avenue Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-6595

Pediatric Surgery

Andrew M. Davidoff

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Surgery

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2911

S. Douglas Hixson

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Pediatric Surgical Group

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 230

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6031

Max R. Langham

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Division of Pediatric Surgery

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6031

Pediatrics/General

Susan M. Aguillard

Pediatrics East

8110 Walnut Run Road

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-3535

H. Gail Beeman

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area Three

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-2000

Maria T. de Lamerens

Memphis Pediatrics

1255 South Germantown

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-432-1591

Lelon O. Edwards

Pediatrics East

2004 Exeter Road

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-3535

Robert Eiseman

920 Estate Drive, Suite Three

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Noel K. Frizzell

Pediatric Consultants

777 Washington Avenue

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-523-2945

Timothy G. Gillespie

Memphis Children’s Clinic

6615 Kirby Center Cove

Memphis, TN 38115

Phone: 901-795-9193

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Health Care

574 Greentree Cove, Suite 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Health Care

574 Greentree Cove, Suite 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Charles Christopher Hanson

Laurelwood Pediatrics

5050 Sanderlin Avenue

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-683-9371

Marion E. Hare

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Wayland J. Hayes III

Pediatrics East

120 Crescent Drive

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-757-3535

John R. Hill

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area Three

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Mary M. Hurley

7514 Corporate Center

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-5333

Valerie P. Jameson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Division of General

Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Scott M. Kloek

Memphis Children’s Clinic

Medical Building B, Suite 230

7705 Poplar Avenue

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-2400

Joel Kronenberg

920 Estate Drive, Suite Three

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Karen L. Lakin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

Charles N. Larkin

Pediatrics East

8110 Walnut Run Road

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-3535

Deborah D. Nelson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric

Specialists

Department of Pediatrics

777 Washington Avenue, Suite P-110, Area Three

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2000

William C. Patton

East Arkansas Medical Clinic

901 Holiday Drive

Forrest City, AR 72335

Phone: 870-633-0880

Warren A. Skaug

The Children’s Clinic

800 South Church Street, Suite 400

Jonesboro, AR 72401

Phone: 870-935-6012

Willie Tsiu

920 Estate Drive, Suite Three

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Boulevard

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

Peter Y. Whitehead

Memphis Children’s Clinic

7705 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-396-0390

Plastic Surgery

R. Louis Adams

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

George L. Burruss

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

R. Gregory Chandler

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

William L. Hickerson

Firefighters’ Burn Center

880 Madison Avenue,

Suite TG030

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-2579

Allen Holt Hughes

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Phillip R. Langsdon

The Langsdon Clinic

7499 Poplar Pike

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-6465

Edward Andrew Luce

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Karen Quigley

The Plastic Surgery Group

of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center

Drive, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Robin M. Stevenson

The Aesthetic Cosmetic

Surgery Center

6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 505

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-682-0423

Robert D. Wallace

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Plastic

Surgery

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 290

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-347-8290

Psychiatry

Dolores DiGaetano

Chamberlin Clinic

8316 Macon Terrace

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-0568

James Allen Greene

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center

Department of Psychiatry

135 North Pauline Street, Suite 122

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-1665

Kenneth Mark Sakauye

University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Department of Psychiatry

135 North Pauline Street, Suite 122

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-448-2400

Pulmonary Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary

Specialists

5050 Poplar Avenue, Suite 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Emmel B. Golden, Jr.

Memphis Lung Physicians

6025 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 508

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-5864

Radiation Oncology

Larry E. Kun

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiological

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Radiology

James D. Acker

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

David Buechner

Methodist University

Hospital

Division of Neuro

Intervention

1265 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-683-1890

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Division of Pediatric

Radiology

50 North Dunlap Street, Ground Floor

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-5901

Richard L. Duszak, Jr.

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-757-1007

Donald S. Emerson

Memphis Radiological

Professional Corporation

1661 International Place

Drive, Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-2696

George Gallimore

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Evelyn W. Gayden

Baptist Memorial Hospital

for Women

Comprehensive Breast

Center

50 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 23

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-0810

Robert E. Gold

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Radiology

865 Jefferson Avenue,

Suite F150C

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-4454

Robert E. Laster

Memphis Radiological

Professional Corporation

1661 International Place

Drive, Suite 350

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-2696

James E. Machin

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

H. Lynn Magill

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Robert J. Optican

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Zoltan Patay

St. Jude Children’s Research

Hospital

Department of Radiologic

Sciences

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Martin L. Pinstein

Saint Francis Hospital –

Memphis

Department of Radiology

5959 Park Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-765-2191

R. Steven Roney

Saint Francis Hospital –

Memphis

Department of Radiology

5959 Park Avenue

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-765-2191

William E. Routt, Jr.

Methodist University

Hospital

Department of Radiology

1265 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-685-2696

W. Chapman Smith

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Radiology

865 Jefferson Avenue,

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-4454

Allen K. Tonkin

Baptist Memorial

Hospital East

Department of Radiology

6019 Walnut Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-4000

Ina Lynn Dyer Tonkin

Le Bonheur Children’s

Medical Center

Department of Radiology

50 North Dunlap Street

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Dexter H. Witte

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Phillip T. Zeni

Mid-South Imaging and

Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Boulevard, Suite 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Sleep Medicine

David R. Nichols

NEA Baptist Clinic Center

for Sleep Disorder

1118 Windover Road

Jonesboro, AR 72401

Phone: 870-336-4144

Robert W. Schriner

Memphis Lung Physicians

1500 West Poplar Avenue, Suite 206

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-850-1170

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Healthcare Sleep

Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Avenue, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Surgery

Charles R. Andrews

6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 212

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-5031

Martin Croce

University of Tennessee

Health Science Center

Department of Surgery

910 Madison Avenue, Room 219

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-5500

Timothy C. Fabian

UT Medical Group, Inc.

MedPlex Medicine Clinic

Department of Surgery

880 Madison Avenue, Fourth Floor

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-5914

William Scott King, Jr.

Memphis Surgery Associates

6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 404

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-726-1056

F. Elizabeth Pritchard

UT Medical Group, Inc.

Department of Surgery

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 280

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-347-8270

Guy R. Voeller

UT Medical Group, Inc.

7945 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 280

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-347-8423

Surgical Oncology

Raza Ali Dilawari

UT Medical Group, Inc.

1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 410

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-725-1921

Martin D. Fleming

Memphis Surgery Associates

6029 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 404

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-726-1056

Thoracic Surgery

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

E. Todd Robbins

6027 Walnut Grove, Suite 203

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9155

Urology

Hugh Francis III

Memphis Surgery Associates

6029 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 404

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-726-1056

Walter Rayford

The Urology Group

6029 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 300

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-8158

Vascular Surgery

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories
By Barry Hannah
Grove Press, 459 pp., $27.50

“This is why I tell this story and will never tell another.”

That simple line provides a devastating conclusion to “Testimony of Pilot,” one of Barry Hannah’s best and most popular short stories, a tale of marching bands, test pilots, and confounding tragedy. But it could cap any of his stories. He wrote each one as if it might be his last, as if his life depended on it — a tone that lends them all a momentousness and majesty.

Hannah, who taught creative writing at the University of Mississippi, always has been revered as a prose stylist and rightly so: He dotted his sentences with Southern colloquialisms and made-up phrases brimming with insight, writing them as models of concision and cleverness. Spanning nearly half a century, Long, Last, Happy, however, argues for him as storyteller first and foremost. Hannah rejected the traditional story arc in favor of just hanging out with his characters for a few pages, peeking into their lives and recording what he saw. Full of flights of immense fancy yet strongly grounded in character, these are stories about men at their loosest ends, hounded by bad-luck streaks, cursed by impossible loves, caught up in improbable wars. And fishing: What Nabokov did for butterflies, Hannah does for bass.

The men who populate these stories tend toward a certain type, yet Hannah makes them unique individuals, teasing out their quirks, their fears, and their humanity.

“I have become the scribe,” says the unnamed narrator of “Bats Out of Hell Division,” “not voluntarily, but because all my limbs are gone except my writing arm.” His regiment is all but defeated, yet the soldier rushes, via wheelbarrow, into battle anyway, searching for the bullet that will end his life and literary duties. It’s a strange, warped story but a reminder that Hannah himself was all writing arm.

Organized chronologically, Long, Last, Happy is bookended by stories that will be new to even diehard Hannah readers. The earliest, “Trek,” originally appeared in his college literary magazine. Obscure yet aggressively engaging, it shows a precocious talent finding his voice and embracing his own deviant mannerisms. The final story, “Rangoon Green,” one of four never-before-published stories in this volume, is a harrowing account of the second Gulf War told from a soldier’s point of view. Everything in between these two stories shows how Hannah’s idiosyncratic style developed over the years, how it grew more streamlined without relinquishing its eccentricities, how he devised an odd, personal morality embedded in the conflicts of Southern life.

Hannah died earlier this year, leaving four short-story collections and a handful of novels. Surely there are more posthumous volumes to come — new editions of out-of-print titles (such as Captain Maximus, excerpted here), unfinished pieces, assorted writings. Long, Last, Happy, as immersive and exciting as it is, is no substitute for his previous collections — more like a complement to them. There is hard life and soul in these stories, and it’s sad that Barry Hannah will never write another. — Stephen M. Deusner

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
By Andrew O’Hagan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 288 pp., $24

A word of advice: You might not want to mention that you are reading a book about Marilyn Monroe written from the viewpoint of her Maltese, Mafia Honey. To do so will elicit blank stares, guffaws, and are-you-kiddings.

However, as the title suggests, that is precisely what The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe is. And given the premise of the book, it’s perhaps a testament to author Andrew O’Hagan’s talent — his books have been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the E.M. Forster Award — that it is being taken seriously at all.

In 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe, fresh off her breakup with playwright Arthur Miller, a Maltese poodle. In the book, the dog has several brushes with celebrity prior to Marilyn — living first with painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, then Natalie Wood’s parents — before being scooped up by Sinatra. And that may have been the case in real life too, except that O’Hagan’s skillfully crafted prose and dialogue read more like fiction than nonfiction … but the narrator is, of course, a dog.

Maf (for short) goes to nightclubs, psychotherapy, and the Actors Studio with his “fated companion.” O’Hagan handily gets around the point-of-view problem of his four-legged narrator by allowing dogs to have such good ears that they can “hear” human thought and emotion. (The learned pup also has a working knowledge of politics, Proust, Plato, and poetry. Among other things.)

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a world that held my interest as firmly as I’d have liked. And though O’Hagan’s novel presents a flawed Marilyn, there is also something star-struck as well, as in:

“Every creature is an effusion of something rare, but she was beyond reach at the centre of her ghostly aura, the night crowding around her as she sang ‘Happy Birthday’. My fated companion looked as if nothing real had ever touched her, no small regret, no other person.” — Mary Cashiola

My Prizes: An Accounting
By Thomas Bernhard
Knopf, 144 pp., $22

You must be a person of considerable gifts for an accounting of your accolades to be interesting or even, quite frankly, tolerable. Thomas Bernhard is such a person. Praised as one of the greatest Austrian writers of the 20th century and simultaneously scorned as a Nestbeschmutzer by the Austrian press (a Nestbeschmutzer is “one who fouls his own nest” — in this case, Austria and the literary establishment), Bernhard harnesses the right mix of literary genius and enfant terrible to make this book a biting but ultimately humble work.

The short essays are about more than the prizes Bernhard won over his storied career; they detail how each prize affected him, often in unexpected ways. To accept the Grillparzer Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, he bought a new suit and, with his aunt, traipsed off to the ceremony — only to be overlooked for a time as a member of the audience. With the money from the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, he bought a fog-covered house he couldn’t afford and could barely see to inspect. And with the money from the Julius Campe Prize, he bought a sparkling white car with red interior, which later hurtled him into the path of an oncoming vehicle and nearly cost him his life.

Certainly Bernhard is moved by some of the prizes he’s won. The Campe Prize from Hamburg is particularly important to him. But having served on a board for determining literary prize-winners, he sees how arbitrary the process can be and, at times, how a prize can be as much a slap in the face as a cause for celebration. (“Now I had to go to this very Ministry and allow these very people to hang a prize on me when I heartily despised both them and it.”)

And so, spurning the pretensions of the literary industry, which so often take precedence over the artist and the work at hand, Thomas Bernhard catalogs the prizes by their monetary value and outcome. Happily, they’re the makings of good stories. — Hannah Sayle

I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor
and Some That May Not Be Funny At All
Edited by Judd Apatow
McSweeney’s Books, 476 pp., $25

After a long love affair with novels, we’ve had something of a renaissance of short stories in the past decade or so, ushered in by collections edited by prominent people and organizations. The short story is the most noncommittal version of literary prose, and if you trust the editor, chances are you’ll find a few new authors to put on your reading list. Lucky for us, McSweeney’s head honcho Dave Eggers finally asked himself: Who better to recommend a few pieces of humor than the king of short attention spans, filmmaker Judd Apatow?

Apatow (writer and director of Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin) says upfront that the pieces in I Found This Funny are not all funny, per se; some, like Miranda July’s “Majesty,” are dark and poignant with a side of hilarity. These appear with highlights from the arbiters of modern comedy — Steve Martin, Jon Stewart, Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien — backed by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Flannery O’Connor. It’s less a selection compiled to make you laugh out loud than the story of how Apatow’s brand of humor developed, punctuated by his own heart-wrenching account of working on Freaks and Geeks, the prematurely canceled television series that began his career (and introduced him to Seth Rogen and James Franco).

I Found This Funny is refreshing because these collections often come from inside the literary world and end up containing the requisite pieces from big literary names and not much else.

Apatow branches out, including screenplays, essays, borderline-crude comics, and a faux lawsuit between Wile E. Coyote and the ACME company. Here we have a compilation of good work, quickly digested but held onto by someone without much time or impulse to be thorough, who says earnestly that reading more made him a better writer, that the honesty of Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What) filtered into his movies and made him want to share that feeling with people who care about those films. — Halley Johnson

Proceeds from the sale of I Found This Funny go to 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in eight cities across the U.S.

Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle’s Sweaters to Maine’s Microbrews
By Christian Lander
Random House, 240 pp., $15 (paper)

White people are funny, and according to Christian Lander, the most hilarious type of white person is the left-wing, starry-eyed North American. Lander’s second book, Whiter Shades of Pale, based on his popular blog “Stuff White People Like,” includes diagrams of trendy white folk according to their city of choice alongside musings on white behavior.

As a white person, not to mention one with a liberal arts degree, I personally can attest to, first-hand or through other goofy white people, everything Lander touches on. From the collective comfort of My So-Called Life to a penchant for photography and girls with bangs, Whiter Shades of Pale is spot-on satire, so long as your target is white people who happen to be affluent and socially conscious. People who fall outside of these categories are lovingly referred to by Lander as “the wrong kind of white people,” which mirrors the judgmental attitude ingrained in an affluent, socially conscious white person’s mindset.

Pinpointing terminally hip cities and the white people who love them makes this follow-up to Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions a veritable road trip (another favorite pastime of white people). As a white Canadian, Lander has the inside scoop, exploiting the psyche of white people, including their crippling fear of weight gain and their inexplicable enthusiasm for expensive things made to look cheap. He also addresses specific TV shows, movies, clothing, and Bob Marley as keys to understanding the white person’s experience.

Lander’s text is geared toward all types of people and provides them with invaluable pointers on interacting with white people. But anyone with a sense of humor can appreciate this book and the hypocrisies unknowing white people exhibit each and every day. — Ashley Johnston

Death of the Liberal Class
By Chris Hedges&#10
Nation Books, 248 pp., $24.95

A trivia question for an enlightened bunch of head-gamers might be: What epigraph appears at the beginning of the Academy Award-winning film about a mine-sweeping unit in Iraq, The Hurt Locker, and who said or wrote it? The answer is: “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug,” and the author of those words is Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for The New York Times. The quote appeared originally in Hedges’ book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.

Hedges’ very titles have a way of reading like developed thesis statements, and the title of his newest work, Death of the Liberal Class, speaks for itself as well. In this book, Hedges delivers a scathing and unrelenting critique of what he sees as contemporary America’s corporate-controlled, militarized, consumer-oriented culture, and the chief villains are not the oligarchs in charge, as one might expect, but the thoroughly co-opted members of a now-fossilized “liberal class” who seek practical ends for themselves rather than moral results for society. They are, in Hedges’ view, little more than window-dressing for the prevailing corruption.

It was expressing such a view that forced Hedges’ mutually agreed upon divorce from the Times in 2003, only a year after sharing in a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. It was that very coverage that radicalized his critique of American society and resulted in a commencement address at Rockford College in Illinois so scathing of the national ethos that he was jeered off the stage.

There are few heroes in Death of the Liberal Class, and most of them are martyrs or nearly so — uncompromising figures of the left such as the activist priest Daniel Berrigan, historian Howard Zinn, linguist Noam Chomsky, and journalist I.F. Stone.

Hedges himself belongs in this company — a purist to the point that he regards President Obama as a corporate figurehead who “lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush” and who “shoved a health-care bill down our throats that will mean ever-rising co-pays, deductibles, and premiums and leave most of the seriously ill bankrupt and unable to afford medical care.”

In other words, Chris Hedges is no reformer; rather, he is a genuine revolutionary as fanatical in his own way as any Tea Partier of the right and worth reading for the uniqueness that gives him. — Jackson Baker

The Anti-American Manifesto
By Ted Rall
Seven Stories Press, 284 pp., $15.95 (paper)

With all due deference to Dorothy Parker, Ted Rall’s The Anti-American Manifesto isn’t a book to be tossed aside lightly. This seditious collection of angry ramblings by cartoonist turned columnist turned fifth columnist should be fired from a cannon on the Fourth of July in celebration of the First Amendment. The Anti-American Manifesto is a bellicose call to arms wherein Rall invites more passive lefties to join forces with armed racist skinheads and any other group, regardless of ideology, to destroy the United States government. Rall intends to be a 21st-century Thomas Paine, but The Anti-American Manifesto is common nonsense.

Revolution, real pull-out-the-guns-and-use-them-against-the-rich-first revolution, is Rall’s solution for everything, including the federal debt. “All it takes is one little Revolution to declare all those treasury bonds null and void,” he writes as if a nasty civil war would cause lender nations to suddenly forget their financial interests. Where we get the money to bury our war dead and rebuild is an issue Rall never really gets into. Neither does he mention the warlord gangsterism that might emerge in the third-world rubble of a post-revolution America. That outcome, he insists, can only happen if we sit on our fists and do nothing.

Rall, like many Americans, is troubled by the direction his country is headed. And in troubled times like these, who can blame him? When he claims that the greatest achievement of the government and its allied corporations and media shills is that it’s convinced us that there’s “nothing we can do about anything,” he is entirely on point. Then there’s this little Hitler comparison: “Perhaps we shouldn’t judge the Fuhrer too harshly, after all, he has a few things in common with Barack Obama.” The commonalities in question: They are both insulated leaders surrounded by yes men.

Though grave missteps, from manifest destiny to our great Iraqi misadventure, are a shameful matter of U.S. history, the ultimate truths of Rall’s bloody conclusion are anything but self-evident. The informed, justifiably angry, but tragically misguided author subsequently plays up the virtues of societies where government leaders live under the real threat of assassination. Quoting a bit of unattributed graffiti, he puts forward the specious notion that a single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely bloodier than a month of total revolution.

At every turn, Rall, now taking his place as the unhinged Glenn Beck of the left, wounds his credibility with the one conclusion that can be drawn from his many proofs: Some violence is required. He games out the various doomsday scenarios that will surely come to pass if we don’t fight, as though rebellion weren’t a doomsday scenario in and of itself. — Chris Davis

The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You To Read!
Selected, edited, and with commentary by Jim Trombetta
Abrams ComicArts, 304 pp., $29.95

X’ED OUT

By Charles Burns
Pantheon Books, 56 pp., $19.95

“Murder, mayhem, robbery, rape, cannibalism, carnage, necrophilia, sex, sadism, masochism, and virtually every other form of crime, degeneracy, bestiality, and horror.”

It’s right there on the back cover, describing what you can find in the pages of The Horror! The Horror! But there’s an asterisk, too, indicating that the quote is from a 1955 U.S. government investigation into comic books. Thus, what we have in this impressive, well-researched book: the horror and crime comics of the 1940s and ’50s, which were so “evil” as to bring down the might of the federal government to censor them from impressionable youths of the time.

Leading the charge against comics was Dr. Fredric Wertham, whose Seduction of the Innocent made him the bogeyman of the comic-book medium. Government censorship, we know (right?), is not a good thing. But that’s what the Comics Code Authority did beginning in 1954, thus eradicating the most popular comics of the day. That’s not to say the opening quotation above isn’t accurate: You can find all manner of “murder, mayhem” etc. (and more) in the pages of those comic books, which editor Jim Trombetta has resurrected.

Hundreds of stories and covers are reproduced in The Horror!, artifacts virtually no one has seen since the mid-century. Accompanying them are essays by Trombetta. The Horror! is a must-have for comics fans and comfy-chair historians alike.

Also out is Charles Burns’ X’ed Out, touted as “the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.” I can’t say what the rest of the series will hold, but X’ed Out is indeed an auspicious start. Burns (Black Hole) is a master at “staging” a page — some of them here have solid color panels with considerable aesthetic appeal and increased emotional resonance.

Something bad has happened to the main character, Doug, in X’ed Out — some juju that’s left him bedridden and psychologically injured. Much of the story is spent in Doug’s dreams, where Burns introduces elements that begin to get explained by the end of the volume (and, one presumes, with a bigger payoff to come in future installments). The middle section is a flashback to a time when Doug was whole, performing at an underground art party. That’s where he meets the photographer Sarah, and what happens next is anyone’s guess. Can’t wait to find out.

— Greg Akers

FreeDarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History

By Bethlehem Shoals et al.
Bloomsbury USA, 213 pp., $25

FreeDarko is a small collective of intellectual, subcultural pro-hoops enthusiasts under the lead of the self-named Bethlehem Shoals. Initially web-based, the FreeDarko crew’s cult following swelled when they made their book debut with 2008’s Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac, which was a novel, witty, and provocative examination of the contemporary tenor and talent in the National Basketball Association.

This follow-up — which adds a handful of new writers to the FreeDarko core —  backtracks to the origin of the sport and investigates the game’s growth from inventor James Naismith (“The Peach Basket Patriarch”) to the legacies of Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal.

Like The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac, The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History has the size, shape, and design of an elegant textbook, with colorful and striking illustrations, charts, and graphs. The result amounts to a prettier, brainier alternative — or perhaps supplement — to Bill Simmons’ straighter, more culturally clueless but still essential Book of Basketball.

As you might expect in a book about the history of the league, the Memphis Grizzlies aren’t much of a factor here. There is a quick reference to Jerry West’s tenure with the team in a chapter on West, Elgin Baylor, and Oscar Robertson and to Marc Iavaroni’s “dismal Memphis tenure” in a sidebar on other teams’ attempts to replicate the style of the Phoenix Suns. But the only place where the Grizzlies figure prominently is in a chapter on “court cases, contracts, and caps,” where the team’s 2008 trade of Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers is the lead item in a summary that darts back to the 1970s to document the evolution of the league’s complex financial system and its relationship to the on-court product. The conclusion: “The Pau Gasol deal may not have been an equitable basketball trade, but it was an equitable NBA trade.”

— Chris Herrington

BADASS:A HARD-EARNED GUIDE To living life with style and (the right) attitude
By Shannen Doherty
Clarkson Potter, 254 pp., $25.99

Shannen Doherty (Memphis-born) has made the transformation from bad girl to badass — or that’s what she wants you to think. Now that she’s worked through her own issues, she wants to help you become a badass too.

Doherty’s new book, Badass, is intended as a self-help guide to move women away from negative relationship patterns, insecurities, and the like. She uses stories from her “Brenda Walsh” days, when the 90210 actress was known for her bitchy behavior, to show women that if she can change, anyone can.

Unfortunately, most of the book comes across as juvenile and contrived. For example, after about 100 pages extolling Doherty’s virtues of badass-ness (integrity, class, compassion, sensitivity), the book turns into a shallow guide to living the badass life, which includes making sure “that we have great shoes, purses, hairstyles, and nails.” Doherty even includes a list of badass lipstick shades. (FYI: Russian Red by MAC tops the list.) The former Charmed star goes a little Martha Stewart by the end of the book with tips on decorating your patio and using vintage fabric. She even includes a recipe for her dad’s Chilean sea bass.

I’m all for cutesy all-purpose guides to modern-day domesticity, but these helpful tips hardly make up for lines like, “Men, like dogs, respond well to praise. Give your man lots of it.”

The book does contain some common-sense advice, though. Doherty writes of her experience trying to control past boyfriends and fix their negative behavior, a pattern many of us fall into. She advises women to view relationship-controlling behavior as a sign that it’s time to “use my confidence and my courage to move on.” That’s good advice.

Doherty’s tables and charts, like the Badass Growth Chart or the list of bitchy traits vs. badass traits, however, overshadow any tips that may actually help people move into a healthier sense of self.

Diehard Shannen Doherty: Badass might be a fun gift, but don’t expect it to help you make real changes.

— Bianca Phillips