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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 27, 2006
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UT MEDICAL GROUP PHYSICIANS NAMED TO BEST DOCTORS IN AMERICA^® DATABASE

Memphis, Tennessee (January 27, 2006) — The 2006 listing of Best Doctors in America^® names more than 80 physicians affiliated with UT Medical Group, Inc. as best in their fields.

UT Medical Group is the Memphis area's largest physician practice with over 325 providers, all of whom are qualified to teach on the faculty of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine.

The Best Doctors in America^® database is widely regarded as a high-quality reference guide to the medical profession. The list is based on an exhaustive survey in which more than 35,000 doctors are asked to rate the clinical abilities of their peers. Participants are asked, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?"

The guide lists doctors in more than 400 areas of medical expertise, including allergy, cardiovascular disease, ophthalmology, internal medicine, pediatrics, and plastic surgery.

Best Doctors, Inc. does not accept compensation from physicians or hospitals in return for listing doctors in its database, nor does it pay doctors to participate in the survey.

The following UT Medical Group doctors are included in the Best Doctors in America^® database. (Listed by specialty)

Adolescent Medicine:  Sarah B. Stender

Allergy & Immunology (Pediatric): D. Betty Lew, Mary Ellen Conley 

Anesthesiology: John Zanella

Cardiovascular Disease (Pediatric): Bruce S. Alpert

Cardiovascular Disease: Brad S. Burlew, Howard R. Horn, Kevin P. Newman

Critical Care (Pediatric): Mark C. Bugnitz, Michael W. Quasney, Gregory L. Stidham, Stephanie Ann Storgion

Dermatology: Ronnie Rasberry, Robert B. Skinner Jr.

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

Endocrinology (Pediatric): George A. Burghen, Robert K. Danish

Endocrinology: Samuel Dagogo-Jack, Thomas A. Hughes, Beverly Williams-Cleaves

Gastroenterology (Pediatric): Dennis D. Black, John K. Eshun, Linda F. Lazar

Infectious Disease (Pediatric): Frederick Barrett, Stephen C. Buckingham, P. Joan Chesney, John P. Devincenzo, B. Keith English

Infectious Disease: Michael S. Gelfand

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

Medical Genetics (Pediatric): Eniko Pivnick, Jewell Ward, R. Sidney Wilroy

Nephrology (Pediatric): Bettina H. Ault, Russell W. Chesney, Deborah P. Jones, Robert J. Wyatt

Nephrology: Sergio R. Acchiardo

Neurology (Pediatric): James W. Wheless

Nuclear Medicine: J. Daniel Massie

Obstetrics & Gynecology (Pediatric): Claudette J. Shephard

Obstetrics & Gynecology: Vanessa Givens, Edward J. Lazarus, Gary H. Lipscomb, Norman L. Meyer, Owen Phillips

Ophthalmology (Pediatric):  Natalie C. Kerr

Ophthalmology: Edward Chaum, James C. Fleming, Barrett G. Haik, Peter A. Netland, Matthew Wilson

Otolaryngology: Charles Bruce MacDonald, Jerome W. Thompson

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

Plastic Surgery: Robert D. Wallace

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

Radiology: Thomas F. Boulden, Robert Gold, Louis S. Parvey, W. Chapman Smith, Ina Tonkin

Rheumatology (Pediatric): Linda K. Myers

Rheumatology: Andrew H. Kang

Surgery: Martin Croce, Timothy Fabian, Osama Gaber, F. Elizabeth Pritchard, Guy Voeller

Best Doctors and the star-in-cross logo are trademarks of Best Doctors, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. For more health information, visit www.utmedicalgroup.com.