Infectious Disease

Dr. Sizemore, a Chattanooga, TN native and Baylor graduate, received his BS in Psychology from Duke University in Durham, NC. From there, he earned his MD degree from the University of Tennessee. He then completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Subsequently, he finished an Infectious Diseases Fellowship and obtained a Master’s of Science in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He returned to Chattanooga in 2005. Currently, he is the Infectious Diseases Division Chief, Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga. He is the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention Programs at Erlanger Health System. He is Past Chief of the Medical Staff at Erlanger Health System. He also serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Cempa Community Care, the Ryan White funded clinic serving over 1100 HIV infected individuals in Southeastern TN.

James Sizemore, MD
Division Chief, Infectious Disease
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine