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Haslam Grants Clemency to 23 on Last Day

CREDIT: Governor Bill Haslam

Governor Bill Haslam

On Friday — his last, full day on the job — Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam issued clemency grants to 23 Tennesseeans, including three convicted in Shelby County.

“These individuals receiving pardons have made positive contributions to their communities and are worthy of the forgiveness that may help them restore their rights or obtain employment,” Haslam said in a statement. “Clemency requires attempting to balance mercy and justice, and my legal team and I have taken this responsibility seriously during a thorough review of many cases.”

Haslam pardoned these three convicted in Shelby County:

• Leah Margaret Foy for her 2003 theft conviction.

“She has been recognized for her significant involvement with military-related and children’s charities and received a unanimous, positive recommendation from the Tennessee Board of Parole,” Haslam said.

• Shea Langs for his 1992 drug-related conviction.

“He has obtained higher education degrees and works as a veterans justice outreach coordinator,” Haslam said.

• Michael Lee Ridley for his 1972 drug-related conviction.

“He is a decorated Vietnam veteran and received a unanimous, positive recommendation from the Tennessee Board of Parole,” Haslam said.

While in office, Haslam has granted a total of 9 commutations, 35 pardons, and one exoneration.

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Opinion Viewpoint

Join the Women’s March and Rally

CREDIT: Justin Fox Burks

What is the Memphis Women’s March?

It began in 2017, with an almost spontaneous uprising, an estimated 9,000 women and some men came to downtown Memphis to lift each other up. They chanted and marched in peaceful protest. Adrienne Bailey told the crowd, “You are continuing the fight, continuing the struggle.” The signs said “love Not Hate Makes America Great,” “My Body, My Choice,” “Equality, Diversity, Unity,” and “The Future isFemale.”

This last sign seems most prescient. The 2017 March led to 2018’s Power to the Polls Rally held in First Congregational Church that featured 11 candidates for office, six of whom were women speaking to a crowd of about 1,000. Of those six candidates five of them won their state and local races. In November 2018, Memphis had its own version of a woman’s wave with Raumesh Akbari, State Senator from District 29 leading the way. 
Justin Fox Burks

Women’s March in Memphis

Akbari wowed the crowd last January with one of her favorite quotes from Shirley Chisholm: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” And on MSNBC she told Trymaine Lee, “In Shelby County, we sprinkle black girl magic all across the field, everywhere.”

Katrina Robinson and Tami Sawyer also inspired the crowd and went on to win District 33 State Senate and Shelby County Commissioner seats, respectively, and two judges, Yolanda Kight and Jennifer Johnson-Mitchell, began their road to underdog victories of Shelby County judgeships. Gabby Salinas, Danielle Schonbaum, and Racquel Collins all made solid showings in squarely Republican districts.

This year, the march’s third, we have evolved to organize two events — a March held on January 19th and a Legislative and Action Rally on January 26th. Why two events? Because the energy is there and we can’t miss an opportunity to celebrate women, our progress and our potential, in this new movement. Amber Sherman, the Women’s Caucus Secretary of the Young Democrats of America, saw a need for the march and seized the day for a renewal and refocus of energy. On January 19th, Memphians will speak on topics ranging from reproductive rights to diversity and inclusion to empower and activate the crowd and “to harness the political power of diverse women … to create transformative social change” in community with the National Women’s March mission.

The Legislative and Action Rally the next week, on Saturday, January 26th, will be held at Clayborn Temple, a fitting setting for an activist movement. Speakers will talk about statewide legislative activity, health care for all, common sense gun reforms, immigration, and city and county actions coming up this year. Local progressive groups including Planned Parenthood, Moms Demand Action, Midsouth Peace and Justice, Latino Memphis, and many others will be on hand to sign up rally participants for actions.

There is a lot of talk about momentum in Memphis, in downtown development, yes, but also in projects like Crosstown, Indie Memphis, Shelby Farms, MLK50, and … wait for it… progress in social justice. The past two years have seen the confederate statues come down, #blackgirlmagic win local elections, NAACP and SCDP win a case against the Shelby County Election Commission to keep early voting sites in majority black districts open, and Mariposa Collective come together to feed, clothe, and comfort, immigrants coming through Memphis.

Much work remains. What is the Memphis Women’s March? A movement that celebrates all women, of every race, color, gender, and religion, all of us. Have chair, will travel. Please join us.

Tricia Dewey is Co-coordinator of the Memphis Women’s March.

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Food & Wine Food & Drink

A Visit to the B-Side Memphis.

CREDIT: Photographs by Justin Fox Burks

The winds of change have blown through the Memphis bar and restaurant scene over the past couple of years. Some old favorites have closed or, more appropriately in the case of the Buccaneer, been burned and razed. From the ashes rises B-Side Memphis, opening in the seemingly unlikely location of Minglewood Hall. Minglewood has been home to a random hodge-podge of businesses over the years, but not many of them have been a beacon shining bright to the crowd that now finds its way to B-Side. It hasn’t been for lack of trying on Minglewood’s behalf: We are just naturally skeptical of ample parking and clean toilets. These amenities are outside of our comprehension when coupled with our treasured local acts.

“We’re doing music every night,” general manager Brad Boswell says. “The focus is on Memphis music.” In a market that hasn’t always been kind to out-of-town bands, this makes sense. Boswell books B-Side himself and stacks each bill with those treasured local acts. He explains that B-Side isn’t just a restaurant or a bar, but a place to go check out music. The focus on Memphis doesn’t end with the tunes, either. The bar serves Pancho’s cheese dip, hummus, and feta dip from nearby Casablanca, kolaches from Howard’s Donuts, and meat pies made by local musician, tattoo artist, and apparent meat pie connoisseur Mark Svetz. Boswell and his brother, Ben, have a full menu planned for the spring, but honestly, can it get any better? There is no stopping you, dear patron, from dipping your locally sourced meat pie in the Pancho’s.

Photographs by Justin Fox Burks

Brad Boswell at B-Side

As if B-Side’s focus on Memphis music and beloved local dips wasn’t enough, Boswell also corralled some familiar talent. His staff is full of former employees of both Old Zinnie’s and the Buccaneer, so pounding beers at B-Side will feel, for many of us, just like home. B-Side has a happy hour starting when they open at 3 p.m. each day and running through 8 p.m. It features $1 off of everything, excluding the already-affordable High Life pony bottles. On Saturdays and Sundays, they open at 6 p.m. Each night of the week, they’re open until 3 a.m., allowing for maximum hell-raising and music-listening. B-Side itself isn’t the cramped, grubby bar that we’ve all embraced in the past. Its ceilings are high, its bar long, its floors hardwood. It’s a space that finally affords us the square footage to rock without fear of the walls caving in or the floor giving way.

Boswell wasn’t kidding about the whole “it’s a place to see music” thing. While there are plenty of tables and booths, there is way more emphasis on space to stand, inviting us to actually pay attention to what’s on the stage. On the night that I went, the crowd stood quietly, enraptured by the peaceful sitar-playing of Naan Violence, the first of a four-band, all-Memphis bill. Each Monday, Devil Train takes the stage, yet another tradition borrowed from bars long gone. And yeah, it’s an actual stage! A dedicated space that doesn’t require moving tables or stacking chairs!

Is this where we are now, Memphis? Have we finally traded in and traded up? Have we finally gotten what we’ve long deserved? This is a bar that has finally answered to all of us who have grown up. We’ve long stood in puddles of bodily fluids in the dive bars of Memphis, smoked in spaces without fans or ventilation, suffered a from-behind soaking from a domestic beer. We’ve gabbed loudly through sets, stumbled into restrooms with no toilet paper, and hugged walls stained with years of sweat and smoke. B-Side has taken all of us in, shown us the light, and graced us with its actual adult bar presence. We loved our falling-apart-at-the-seams dives, and we still love the ones that remain. B-Side Memphis, however, is the beautiful new bar that has all the feel (and all of the people) of the good old days with less of the trash and germs. We’ve arrived, guys, and there are plenty of meat pies and parking spaces here.

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Music Music Blog

Listen Up: Bailey Bigger

CREDIT: Michael Donahue

Michael Donahue

Bailey Bigger

Bailey Bigger wrote her first hit song – “Best Small Town” – when she was 12.

It was a hit in her home town of Marion, Arkansas.

“There’s still a music video that my brother made for it on YouTube,” she says. “It’s about Marion. It blew up in Marion. And I became ‘the little girl that sings,’ I would get gigs at Big John’s Shake Shack. That’s a local spot. So, everyone was there.”

Bigger, 18, currently is working on her second EP. The recording, which is slated to be released in April, is on the Blue Tom Records label at University of Memphis, where Bigger is in the music business program. She recorded her first EP, “Closer to Home,” at singer/songwriter/producer Drew Erwin’s studio, ‘The Cabin.”

The late John Denver was why Bigger begged her parents to let her take guitar lessons when she was nine years old. “I would listen to John Denver all the time. Like ‘Rocky Mountain High’ and all that. And I was like, ‘I want to play this!”

When her guitar teacher asked her what she wanted to play at her first guitar recital, Bigger said, “I want to play my song. I don’t want to play any one else’s song.’

She played “The Field,” one of her originals.

“I guess I’ve never really doubted who I was. I think music had a lot to do with that. It gave me an identity at an early age. And it was something to do that just came naturally to me. Like I didn’t really have to work at it. It felt like a part of me already.”

She liked to listen to music by country singers, including Brad Paisley. “He would do instrumental hymns on his albums. He did ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’ for just the guitar. I thought that was so beautiful.”

Her singing notoriety began after she wrote “Best SmalL Town.” “They had me play it at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and they adopted it as Marion’s theme song. They put it on the website and stuff. I was officially known as ‘the musician.’ Like, ‘Bailey. She’s the singer.’ And I loved that.”

Her favorite line in the songs is, “Everybody knows everybody and you’re living in a fantasy. And I can’t get away with anything ’cause somebody’s always watching me.”

Bigger, who describes her voice as a “front porch voice,” recalls a competition she was in when she was 15. “In Nashville outside of Franklin at the Puckett’s Grocery in Leiper’s Fork. I remember one of the judges came up to my parents afterwards and said, ‘Have you ever put her in voice lessons?’ And they said, ‘No.’ And she said, “Good. Don’t.’”

She began playing gigs through her friendship with singer/songwriter/sound engineer Kris Acklen, who originally got her to open for him at his show at Otherlands Coffee Shop.

Bigger played mostly originals, including “Winter Wheat,” which was about her first boyfriend. She met him her first year of high school and they dated for about a year. “He worked on his dad’s farm. So, when we met, he was working on the Winter wheat. And then when we broke up, he was starting to harvest again. So, basically, it’s a metaphor for how feelings change and crops change. It’s still one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”

Bigger, now a student at University of Memphis, met Mark Parsell, who does a monthly Songwriter’s Night at South Main Sounds. He got her gigs at the Green Beetle, Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts and the Farmer’s Market.

She went to Erwin’s show after reading about him on the Memphis Flyer website. “I Love You Goodbye,” the most popular song on the “Closer to Home” EP, is about a guy Bigger fell in love with. “We worked on a farm together in Arkansas back in this past Fall. He was there for about two months and then he moved to South Carolina for another job.”

“Wildflower” is about her “first summer love. We worked at a summer camp together. We’re still friends, though. He goes to UT Knoxville. He called me his wildflower. He’s a forestry major. He always played ‘Wildflowers’ by Tom Petty.

A recurrent theme in some of her songs is “the love you kind of had to leave behind, but didn’t go away.”

She entered “Wildflower” in an online competition sponsored by the Memphis Songwriters Association and was selected as one of eight finalists who were invited to perform their song live at Galloway Methodist Church.

The song won the Memphis Songwriters Association “Memphis Best Song of the Year” in 2017.

U of M music professor Ben Yonas was one of the judges. “That’s how he noticed me and was like, ‘Come to U of M.’”

Bigger was looking at Middle Tennessee State University, Belmont University and Appalachian State University, but she chose U of M. “I feel like the music scene here is very authentic and very raw. And we have so much history and so much culture and soul. I feel like I could stand out here better than I could in Nashville because Memphis is on the rise.”

Music is all encompassing at this point. In addition to writing and recording her music, Bigger performs several times a month around town. “I never really thought about anything else. I feel like once I started doing it and making money off of it, I was like, ‘Well, this is it.’ It’s not a hobby anymore. It’s my life.”

And, she says, “I don’t have a plan B.”

To see where Bailey Bigger will next be performing, go to baileybigger.com

Listen Up: Bailey Bigger

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Food & Drink Hungry Memphis

Midtown Donuts Opening February 1st

Midtown Donuts, at the site of Donald’s Donuts, is set to open February 1st, according to owner Ly Touch.

Touch’s family runs Howard’s Donuts on Summer, but Touch says that Midtown Donut will offer more than Howard’s Donuts.

Touch says that Midtown Donuts will offer the same donut menu as Howard’s Donuts, but also offer breakfast sandwiches, salads and sandwiches for lunch. There will also be iced coffee drinks as well.

The space will offer outdoor seating. The inside looks similar to Donald’s. There’s definitely more seating.

Midtown Donuts will be open from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Fly On The Wall Blog Opinion

On Gannett, The Commercial Appeal, and Digital First

“I am most afraid of our important, consequential work getting upended because our business model is further disrupted.”

– Commercial Appeal managing editor Mark Russell in an interview published by Poynter.org, 1-13-2019.

“In April, The Post published the editorial headlined ‘As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved,’ calling on Alden Global Capital to sell the newspaper after it cut 30 more positions in the newsroom, leaving it at a fraction of its size just a few years ago. Then in May, three top figures at the Denver Post, including its former owner, resigned amid budget and staff cuts.”

– From an AP report about Alden-backed Digital First Media’s move to acquire The Commercial Appeal‘s parent company, Gannett Co. Published 1-14-2019.

If MNG/Digital First Media successfully acquires The Commercial Appeal‘s parent company, Gannett Co., it’s time to start a dead pool. Only, instead of celebrity deaths, we’ll bet on daily newspapers. Also, I’m calling first dibs: The Commercial Appeal, 2021 — RIP. 

After news broke that Digital First media was making moves to acquire Gannett, many local media watchers wondered if there was any juice left to squeeze from Memphis’ already greatly diminished daily newspaper. It’s a fair question, but only a tiny piece of the bigger picture. Whether or not the CA can withstand another round of screw-tightening, the market’s certainly interested in finding out. Gannett stock rose 21 percent following the announcement and, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, this makes it harder for Gannett to, “justify turning its back on the offer,” or go forward with plans to expand its own digital footprint by purchasing Gizmodo Media (Previously Gawker Media).

Frankly, if not for Digital First’s reputation as “The Death Star of newspaper chains,” the company’s reasons for making an offer and encouraging Gannett to pursue other offers, might sound downright noble.
From the WSJ:

In the letter, Digital First accused [Gannett’s] management of poor stewardship and of damaging the company’s financial position by making several “aspirational digital deals” that haven’t paid off. It demanded that Gannett put all digital acquisitions on hold and hire bankers to review strategic alternatives. 

That sounds like the Gannett we all know. But to extend the Star Wars metaphor, this isn’t Han Solo swooping in with his blaster to save the day. To borrow from Will Bunch at Philly.com:

“The dirty little secret is that DFM learned — at least for now — that it can sell longtime readers an inferior (or, to use the technical term, crappier) newspaper and only 10 percent of reach each year will cancel. Do the math, though, and it’s clear that much of America outside the biggest cities will become news deserts by the early 2020s, after Smith and his fellow hedge-funders have sucked out every last drop.”

Is Bunch being alarmist? He’s certainly not the only media watcher to sense a disturbance in the force. I caught a similar chill and the market’s positive response to the Digital First news instantly called to mind a line in James T. Hamilton’s 2003 book All The News That’s Fit to Sell. When applied to the information business, economics really earns its reputation as “the dismal science.”

Hamilton’s book is aging well. It delves into how markets shape media bias with attention paid to how little the value of well-informed communities has to do with the value of commodified media product. It more or less describes and defines the kinds of changes we’ve all observed in local media markets. It’s what happens when the public’s interest shapes public interest and profit drives all.

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On Gannett, The Commercial Appeal, and Digital First

What happened to Alderaan can happen here.

The Digital First news took me back to that happy moment in 2018 when The Daily Memphian, a new startup, siphoned away much of the CA‘s top talent, effectively cloning the ailing Gannett property in a locally owned but digital-only environment. Most media consumers cheered, but I went full Cassandra on social media and any excitement generated by the prospect of a new information startup was dampened by the sense that we’d now crossed some kind of risk threshold. Every media  startup’s a dicey proposition; now the Gannett-damaged CA had been cut in half — its talent gutted by a digital twin with good intentions. The idea of having no daily non-broadcast news source in Memphis within the next decade had to be seriously entertained.

In spite of recent and well-justified optimism, I once again submit my modest observation: The sky is falling. Maybe not for everybody and maybe not right now. But someday and soon and as reported elsewhere, there are no good guys in this deal.  But if Digital First takes Gannett there won’t be a Commercial Appeal in 2022.

Write it down. 

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News News Blog

Memphians Vie to be Best Pinball Player in State

CREDIT: Facebook- Bluff City Pinball

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Five Memphians will put their flipper skills and endurance to the test, as they travel to Nashville this weekend to compete in the second Tennessee State Pinball Championship.


Will Krusa, the tournament director, said Memphis and Nashville have developed a friendly rivalry so “there’s a lot of pride on who takes home the top prize for their city.”

Although Krusa said “it’s really hard to take a game of pinball too seriously,” the cash prizes offered in some of the tournaments “certainly add to the seriousness and intensity of it.”

“Competitive pinball has gained popularity over the years and has been instrumental in the growing resurgence of pinball in general,” Krusa said. “Tournaments are always a friendly atmosphere and traveling all over the country is a good way to reconnect with old pinball friends you haven’t seen in a while.”

Richard Rickman, Scott Woods, Keith Richter, Jordan Clark, and Kevin Hale will represent Memphis in Saturday’s competition of the state’s 16 best pinball players.

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This is the second year that Tennessee will participate in the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) State Champion Series. In last year’s inaugural state tournament, held in Millington, Woods snagged fifth place, Clark took home eighth, Rickman finished 11th, and Hale came in at 14th. Last year, Memphian Benjamin Liggett took home first place.


The winner of this year’s state competition will go on to compete in the national tournament held in March in Las Vegas.

Across the country, a total of 832 competitors in 44 states and Washington, D.C., will also vie for their respective state title and the chance to complete on the big stage.

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Richter, a competitor from the Memphis area in this year’s state championship, said he competed in 27 pinball tournaments during 2018 and played on two leagues.

A retired Senior Chief in the Navy now working on Millington’s Navy Base, Richter is currently a part of the Bluff City Winter League, which plays Thursday nights at Memphis Made Brewery.

“One of the greatest things about pinball to me is that people of almost any age and from all walks of life can play,” Richter said. “In our current league in Midtown, we have business professionals, tradespeople, homemakers, a high school teacher, a college professor, a bartender, and several students. Ages range from pre-teens to senior citizens.”

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Letter From The Editor Opinion

The Clean Butt Club

I woke up in the middle of the night last Friday. Something sounded odd in the bathroom — a trickle of running water and an occasional mini-flush. I dark-walked my way into the loo, where it became obvious that, yes, the toilet was running. I flipped the handle a couple times (as one does) to no avail. So, back to bed I went, resolving to fool with it the next day.

Saturday morning, I lifted the tank lid to see what lurked below — and it wasn’t pretty. There was a brick I’d put in there a couple years ago to reduce water consumption and forgotten about. It was covered in moss. At least, I hope it was moss. The bad news was that the flapper thing was soft, fleshy, and pink, and water was flowing around and under it, pretty much unimpeded. Meh.

This wasn’t my first flapper-replacement rodeo, so I shut off the water to the potty, removed the gross, slippery flap, and put it in a plastic bag. Then it was off to Home Depot to buy a replacement. I found a nice shiny red one the same size as mine in the toilet aisle and proceeded to self-checkout, where I scanned the item, swiped my debit card, then headed home.

Installing the new flapper took three minutes, and the water stopped running immediately. Very satisfying. Feeling like a boss, I went to the kitchen for a fresh cup of coffee and opened my laptop to check the Book of Face.

The very first thing that greeted me was an advertisement for something called Tushy, a bidet device of some sort. The ad urged me to install a Tushy and “Join the Clean Butt Club.” Wow.

In the 15 minutes since my trip to Home Depot, my flapper purchase had apparently put me in a special, cyber sub-group of “people who repair their own toilets,” and that information had been transmitted into the corporate maw of Big Toilet, which saw me as an excellent potential customer, since I so enjoyed messing about in potties.

It was sort of shocking, though I should be used to it by now — as we all should be. We are the consumers — and the product. Our information, our location, and our purchase data is being mined and sold in hundreds of ways. As we drive around, Google geo-fencing alerts marketers that we parked in front of, say, a furniture store. Then, when we next check social media — voila! — an ad for a dining room set appears.

Those giant smart TVs, which seem like such a bargain at $499, are constantly transmitting our viewing data — to be sold to marketers who are interested in knowing who’s watching The Rachel Maddow Show or The Big Bang Theory or Dr. Pimple Popper, so as to send us micro-targeted ad messages.

A recent article on the tech site Motherboard detailed how phone providers such as Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are selling geo-location services to just about any company that wants to buy them, including bounty hunters and bill collectors. At least one company, called Microbilt, is selling phone geo-location services with little oversight to a spread of private industries ranging from car salesmen and property managers to bail bondsmen, according to company documents obtained by Motherboard.

It doesn’t stop there. Nearly every website we visit collects and sells information about our browsing habits, as do social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even those sites you’d prefer not to talk about. If you casually search on Amazon for sunglasses, be prepared to be besieged for the next few days by ads for sunglasses. Marketers want to get you while you’re in the mood to buy.

If you’ve got a smart phone, a smart TV, a smart car, or a computer hooked to the Internet, it’s best to proceed under the assumption that absolutely nothing you do is going unmonitored — including buying a flapper for your toilet.

Tempting as it was, I did not buy a Tushy or join the Clean Butt Club, but I researched it a little. The first rule of Clean Butt Club is, unsurprisingly, You Don’t Talk About Clean Butt Club. The second rule is There Is No Secret Handshake.

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News News Feature

Best Doctors

The Flyer has commissioned the Best Doctors to provide this list of best physicians in the Memphis/Shelby County area. 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.

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Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, Best Doctors connects individuals facing difficult medical treatment decisions with the best doctors, selected by impartial peer review in over 450 medical specialty/subspecialty combinations, to review their diagnosis and treatment plans.

Best Doctors’ team of researchers conducts a biennial poll using the methodology that mimics the informal peer-to-peer process doctors themselves use to identify the right specialists for their patients. Using a polling method and proprietary balloting software, they gather the insight and experience of tens of thousands of leading specialists all over the country, while confirming their credentials and specific areas of expertise.

The result is the Best Doctors in America® List, which includes the nation’s most respected specialists and outstanding primary care physicians in the nation. These are the doctors that other doctors recognize as the best in their fields. They cannot pay a fee and are not paid to be listed and cannot nominate or vote for themselves. It is a list which is truly unbiased and respected by the medical profession and patients alike as the source of top quality medical information.

Best Doctors is part of Teladoc Health, the global leader in virtual care delivering a powerful connected care platform – a single solution for addressing a complete spectrum of medical conditions. Through Teladoc Health’s global footprint of 50,000 medical experts, employers, health plans, and health systems have a comprehensive solution for patients to seek resolution across a wide spectrum of needs with convenient access in the U.S. and around the globe.

As part of Teladoc Health, Best Doctors focuses on improving health outcomes for the most complex, critical and costly medical issues. More than a traditional second opinion, Best Doctors delivers a comprehensive evaluation of a patient’s medical condition – providing value to both patients and treating physicians. By utilizing Best Doctors, members have access to the brightest minds in medicine to ensure the right diagnosis and treatment plan.

Through its global network of Best Doctors and other critical services, Teladoc Health is expanding access to high quality health care, lowering costs and improving outcomes around the world. The company’s award winning, integrated clinical solutions are inclusive of telehealth, expert medical opinions, AI and analytics, and licensed platform services.

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These lists are excerpted from The Best Doctors in America® 2017-2018 database, which includes close to 40,000 U.S. doctors in more than 450 medical specialty/subspecialty combinations. The Best Doctors in America® database is compiled and maintained by Best Doctors, Inc. For more information, visit www.bestdoctors.com or contact Best Doctors by telephone at 800-675-1199 or by e-mail at research@bestdoctors.com. Please note that lists of doctors are not available on the Best Doctors Web site.

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Allergy and Immunology

Phillip L. Lieberman

Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Center

6104 Poplar Blvd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-757-6100

Cardiovascular Disease

Paul G. Hess

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation

6027 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 112

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-818-0300

Frank A. McGrew III

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation

8060 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-271-1000

Critical Care Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 S Rex Rd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

UT Regional One Physicians

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

Family Medicine

Timothy E. Folse

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Lee W. McCallum

Methodist Medical Group

8115 Country Villiage Dr

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-752-2300

G. Scott Morris

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Susan F. Nelson

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Jeffery S. Warren

Primary Care Specialists

3109 Walnut Grove Rd

Memphis, TN 38111

Phone: 901-458-0162

J. Kenneth Wong

Baptist Medical Group

Family Physicians Group

3091 Kirby Whitten Rd

Bartlett, TN 38134

Phone: 901-752-6963

Gastroenterology

Edward L. Cattau, Jr.

Gastro One

8000 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-3630

Geriatric Medicine

Derene Akins

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 105

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Hand Surgery

James Calandruccio

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Mark Jobe

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Infectious Disease

Kerry O. Cleveland

UT Methodist Physicians – Infectious Disease

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 370

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-758-7888

Stephen C. Threlkeld

6029 Walnut Grove, Ste C002

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-3490

Internal Medicine

Derene Akins

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 105

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Joseph E. Allen II

Sanders Clinic

6027 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-525-1438

Anita Lynn Arnold

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

James E. Bailey

UT Regional One Physicians

Internal Medicine Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

J. Hays Brantley

Methodist Medical Group

5182 Sanderlin Ave, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-685-0152

John Buttross

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Tommy Campbell

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Cary Martin Finn

Finn Medical Associates

6025 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 627

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3321

E. Arthur Franklin

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Lynda J. Freeland

5200 Park Ave, Ste 204

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-567-5505

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Burton Hayes

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758-7888

Mary M. Hurley

7514 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-5333

Gregory K. Jenkins

Baptist Medical Group

Jenkins and Nease Internal Medicine

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-260-3100

David Jennings

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Charles W. Munn

Methodist Medical Group

6570 Summer Oaks Cove

Memphis, TN 38134

Phone: 901-373-7100

H. Howard Nease

Baptist Medical Group

Jenkins and Nease Internal Medicine

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-260-3100

Jolie G. Porter

Methodist Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Cir

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

G. Van Dyck Rushing

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Martha N. Taylor

Methodist Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Cir

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

Natascha Thompson

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38108

Phone: 901-758-7888

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

William T. Weiss

6401 Poplar Ave, Ste 270

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-766-1967

Catherine Womack

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758.7888

Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine

James B. Lewis, Jr.

Memphis VA Medical Center

Education Services

1030 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-523-8990

Wiley Robinson

Inpatient Physicians of the Mid-South

6263 Poplar Ave, Ste 1052

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-6157

Medical Genetics

Eniko Pivnick

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8818

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6472

Medical Oncology and Hematology

Reed Carl Baskin

Baptist Cancer Center

2996 Kate Bond Rd, Ste 100

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-383-5570

Salil Goorha

Baptist Cancer Center

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 330

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-752-6131

Robert Alan Johnson

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Raymond Osarogiagbon

Baptist Cancer Center

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 220

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-752-6131

Thomas Ratliff

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Lee Schwartzberg

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Kurt Tauer

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Carmel Verrier

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

William K. Walsh

Baptist Cancer Center

2996 Kate Bond Rd, Ste 207

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-379-0703

Nephrology

Margaret Colleen Hastings

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8822

Steven J. Schwab

UT Regional One Physicians

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-4796

Neurological Surgery

Adam Arthur

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Frederick Boop

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Kevin T. Foley

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Paul Klimo

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7722

Jon H. Robertson

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Maurice M. Smith

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Neurology

Thomas W. Arnold

Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 300

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-747-1111

Tulio E. Bertorini

Wesley Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 305

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-261-3500

Stephen H. Landy

Baptist Medical Group

Neurology Specialists

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 210

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-4910

Mark LeDoux

Wesley Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 305

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-261-3500

Michael C. Levin

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Neurology Link Bldg, Ste 415

855 Monroe Ave

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-6199

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Amelia Bailey

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Paul Brezina

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Thomas H. Crenshaw

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Joseph DeWane

Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecology

6246 Poplar Ave

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-4491

Vanessa Givens

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Thomas L. Gray

Integrated Physician Services

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 108

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-725-1864

Raymond W. Ke

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

A. Franklin Kennedy

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

T. Franklin King

Adams Patterson Gynecology & Obstetrics

1727 Kirby Pkwy, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3810

William H. Kutteh

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 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

University Clinical Health

UT Family Medicine

1301 Primacy Pkwy

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8812

Diane M. Long

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Giancarlo Mari

UT Regional One Physicians

Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

Mary N. McDonald

McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness Health

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 150

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4000

Christine S. Mestemacher

Mtestemacher Clinic for Women

7918 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-624-4444

Norman L. Meyer

UT Regional One Physicians

Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3700

Susan G. Murrmann

McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness Health

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 150

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4000

Owen P. Phillips

UT Regional One Physicians

OB/GYN Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

S. Gregory Portera

Center for Urinary and Pelvic Disorders

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 110

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-227-9610

Joseph T. Santoso

Baptist Medical Group

Gynecologic Surgical Specialists

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 202

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-4280

Linda M. Smiley

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Thomas G. Stovall

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Robert L. Summitt, Jr.

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Todd David Tillmanns

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Val Y. Vogt

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Ophthalmology

Steve Charles

Charles Retina Institute

1432 Kimbrough Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-767-4499

Brian M. Jerkins

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-6650

Gary Passons

Passons Eye Center

909 Ridgeway Loop

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-1112

Matthew W. Wilson

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-6650

Orthopaedic Surgery

Frederick Martin Azar

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1211 Union Ave, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-759-5432

James Wilson Harkess

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1458 W Poplar Ave, Ste 100

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-759-3111

Robert H. Miller III

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Michael D. Neel

OrthoMemphis

Briarcrest Professional Bldg, Ste 200

6286 Briarcrest Ave

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1684

Barry B. Phillips

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Kenneth S. Weiss

OrthoMemphis

Briarcrest Professional Bldg, Ste 200

6286 Briarcrest Ave

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1684

Otolaryngology

Neal S. Beckford

University Clinical Health

UT Otolaryngology

7675 Wolf River Cir, Ste 202

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-737-3021

John R. Emmett

Shea Ear Clinic

6133 Poplar Pike

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-9720

Marion Boyd Gillespie

UT Methodist Physicians – Head & Neck Surgery

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 260

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-6051

Dean A. Klug

Mid-South Ear, Nose & Throat

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-5300

John Touliatos

Mid-South Ear, Nose & Throat

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38123

Phone: 901-755-5300

Pathology

Mahul B. Amin

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

930 Madison Ave, Ste 531

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-7020

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

D. Betty Lew

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Allergy and Immunology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Claudette J. Shephard

UT Regional One Physicians

OB/GYN Clinic Outpatient Center,3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

Pediatric Cardiology

John Lynn Jefferies

UT Methodist Physicians – Cardiology

1211 Union Ave, Ste 965

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-435-8550

Jeffrey A. Towbin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Benjamin Rush Waller

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8817

Pediatric Critical Care

Mark C. Bugnitz

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6756

Samir Shah

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Stephanie Ann Storgion

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Pediatric Endocrinology

Ramin Alemzadeh

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 S Rex Rd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Alicia Diaz-Thomas

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dennis D. Black

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Mark R. Corkins

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

John K. Eshun

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Linda F. Lazar

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Wayne L. Furman

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Amar Gajjar

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Neuro-Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Daniel Michael Green

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-5915

Jane Hankins

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2051

Melissa Hudson

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3445

Hiroto Inaba

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3606

Sima Jeha

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Daniel A. Mulrooney

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3658

Ellis Neufeld

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 888-226-4343

Alberto S. Pappo

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6765

Ching-Hon Pui

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Ulrike M. Reiss

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Raul C. Ribeiro

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-7573

John T. Sandlund

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Victor M. Santana

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Elisabeth E. Adderson

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Sandra Arnold

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

John P. Devincenzo

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Patricia M. Flynn

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Aditya Gaur

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Jonathan A. McCullers

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Infectious Disease

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6399

Pediatric Nephrology

John J. Bissler

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Margaret Colleen Hastings

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8822

Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Frederick Boop

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Paul Klimo

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7722

Pediatric Neuroradiology

Asim F. Choudhri

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Mary Ellen Hoehn

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 400

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-287-7337

Natalie C. Kerr

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 400

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

James H. Beaty

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3125

William C. Warner, Jr.

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Jerome W. Thompson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

ENT Clinic Outpatient Center, Ste G10

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-4400

Pediatric Pulmonology

Robert A. Schoumacher

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Pulmonology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Radiation Oncology

Matthew James Krasin

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Radiation Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6146

Thomas Merchant

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Radiation Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Pediatric Radiology

Thomas F. Boulden

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

David Alan Howard

Memphis Radiological

7695 Poplar Pike

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-685-2696

Sue C. Kaste

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

M. Beth McCarville

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2399

Stephen F. Miller

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Louis S. Parvey

Diagnostic Imaging

6401 Poplar Ave, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-387-2340

Pediatric Rheumatology

Linda K. Myers

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Rheumatology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8824

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Abused Children

Karen L. Lakin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

Scott M. Kloek

Memphis Children’s Clinic

Medical Bldg B, Ste 230

7705 Poplar Ave

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-2400

Pediatric Specialist/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy

UT Regional One Physicians

Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center

877 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-7366

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Epilepsy

James W. Wheless

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Neurology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-866-8823

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Sleep Medicine

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Pediatric Metabolic Diseases

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6472

Pediatric Surgery

Andrew M. Davidoff

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Surgery

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Max R. Langham, Jr.

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6820

Pediatrics/General

Susan M. Aguillard

Pediatrics East

8110 Walnut Run Rd

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-3535

H. Gail Beeman

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Kristen A. Bettin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Aimee Christian

Memphis Pediatrics

1255 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-432-1591

Lelon O. Edwards

Pediatrics East

2004 Exeter Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-3535

Robert M. Eiseman

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Noel K. Frizzell

Pediatric Consultants

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-523-2945

Timothy G. Gillespie

Memphis Children’s Clinic

1129 Hale Rd

Memphis, TN 38116

Phone: 901-396-0390

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Charles Christopher Hanson

Laurelwood Pediatrics

5050 Sanderlin Ave

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-683-9371

Marion E. Hare

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Burton Hayes

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758-7888

Wayland J. Hayes III

Pediatrics East

120 Crescent Dr

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-757-3535

Valerie P. Jameson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic

777 Washington Ave, Ste P110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6292

Scott M. Kloek

Memphis Children’s Clinic

Medical Bldg B, Ste 230

7705 Poplar Ave

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-2400

Joel Kronenberg

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Michael Lacy

Memphis Children’s Clinic

7672 Airways Blvd

Southaven, MS 38671

Phone: 662-349-2555

Amanda Mefford

Memphis Children’s Clinic

6615 Kirby Center Cove

Memphis, TN 38115

Phone: 901-795-9193

Keith B. Owen

Pediatrics East

8025 Stage Hills Blvd

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-757-3535

Robert W. Riikola

Memphis Children’s Clinic

7672 Airways Blvd

Southaven, MS 38671

Phone: 662-349-2555

Willie Tsiu

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

Plastic Surgery

R. Louis Adams

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

George L. Burruss

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

R. Gregory Chandler

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

William L. Hickerson

Firefighters Regional Burn Center

890 Madison Ave, Ste TG032

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-2579

Allen Holt Hughes

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Edward Andrew Luce

University Clinical Health

University Plastic Surgeons

1068 Cresthaven Rd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8525

Karen Quigley

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Robert D. Wallace

University Clinical Health

University Plastic Surgeons

1068 Cresthaven Rd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8525

Psychiatry

Dolores DiGaetano

Chamberlin Clinic

8316 Macon Terrace, Ste 103

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-0568

Pulmonary Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Radiology

David Buechner

Memphis Radiological

7695 Poplar Pike

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-1890

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

George Gallimore

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Evelyn W. Gayden

Baptist Women’s Health Center

Womens Diagnostic Group

50 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 23

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-0810

Robert E. Gold

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6963

James E. Machin

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Robert J. Optican

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Zoltan Patay

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Joseph C. Sullivan

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Allen K. Tonkin

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Heidi R. Umphrey

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Dexter H. Witte

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Sleep Medicine

Robert W. Schriner

Memphis Lung Physicians

1500 W Poplar Ave, Ste 309

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-850-1170

Surgery

Martin A. Croce

UT Regional One Physicians

Elvis Presley Trauma Center

877 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-8140

Timothy C. Fabian

UT Regional One Physicians

Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

Richard E. Fine

Margaret West Comprehensive Breast Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-516-4300

F. Elizabeth Pritchard

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 280

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-609-3520

Surgical Oncology

Martin D. Fleming

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 280

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-609-3520

David Shibata

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

1211 Union St, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-609-3520

Thoracic Surgery

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

Vascular Surgery

Hugh Francis III

Memphis Surgery Associates

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 404

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-726-1056

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

Michael J. Rohrer

UT Methodist Physicians – Vascular Surgery

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 310

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-6010

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Politics Politics Feature

Four For the Senate

CREDIT: Jackson Baker

In the first of two scheduled formal debates this week, the four Republican candidates to succeed newly minted federal judge Mark Norris in his vacated District 32 state Senate seat struggled to separate themselves from each other before an audience largely composed of pre-existing partisans for one hopeful or another.

At the affair, sponsored by the Bartlett Chamber of Commerce at the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, the four candidates — former County Commissioner George Chism; Covington businessman Paul Rose; former County Commissioner Heidi Shafer; and former state Representative Steve McManus — did their best to make sense in a lightning-round format in which they had a maximum of one minute to answer thematic questions of some complexity.

Jackson Baker

Paul Rose (left) and Heidi Shafer speak at a debate in Bartlett.

Asked first how they would undertake the task of representing a district that is equal parts rural and suburban, the candidates complied with short answers: Collierville resident Chism proclaimed, “I understand what the rural life is all about”; Covington’s Rose said, “I recognize that rural and suburban areas exist and complement each other”; Shafer, formerly of Memphis, now of Lakeland, noted that she was “raised on a farm” and knew all about corn, bean, wheat, and milo, adding, “We got out of cattle when I was about three”; and Cordovan McManus said, “I would not forget the little guy” and proclaimed it his mission to open up rural access to broadband.

Other subjects covered in the debate were Memphis vs. the Suburbs, concerning which, all four boasted their pride in the suburban municipal school systems while promising both fairness and toughness regarding Memphis. On infrastructure, all four vowed to find means to compete with Mississippi throughways that are more convenient for recruiting industry. Speaking on education, all pledged to see that the best teachers were hired and paid appropriately. When it came to health care, all four did their best to wriggle away from anything resembling a commitment to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, though Chism probably deserves kudos for allowing as how it might be efficacious to redesign the ACA to make it more user-friendly.

Chism also gets points for his unique self-description: “I’m the only one who looks like me and talks like me and quacks like me.”

Rose gets the honors for sounding both most conservative and most Trumpian when he discounted the ACA (aka “Obamacare”) by saying he would prefer to help create more jobs so as to get people off the public health rolls (by which he apparently meant TennCare), and when he said the best defense to the crisis of abuse via opioids and other drugs would be to build a wall. He seemed a mite inconsistent when he joined the others in desiring to get more of “our money” back from state taxes but disdained claiming any “Washington money” for health care.

The two candidates who seemed most in their wheelhouse in dealing with a particular question were Shafer, who dealt with the opioid matter by itemizing her leadership on the county commission in establishing counter-measures that have been cited, she said, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and McManus, who said that whoever wins the special election for District 32 would be taking office in mid-budget season this year and noted that only he had been through a legislative budget season.

The GOP candidates were slated to go after it again in public debate at Germantown’s Pickering Center on Wednesday evening.