Our Board

 

MERI’s Board of Directors is comprised of four members each from our Charitable Members Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Corporation and Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute.

 

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation:

 

Ric Ransom

Director of Business Development
Baptist Memorial Medical Group 

 

Scott Fountain

Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer

Baptist Memorial Hospital

 

Don Pounds

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Baptist Memorial Hospital

 

William A. Tuttle

Vice President Planning

Baptist Memorial Hospital

 

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Corporation:

 

David Cunningham, MD

Regional Director Gamma Knife Center

 

Larry Spratlin

Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer

 

Catherin Murphey, RN, MBA, CENP

CNO, VP Patient Services
Methodist University Hospital

 

Stephen T. Miller, MD, MACP

Robert S. Pearce Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

and Medical Director, Medical Education and Research, Methodist Healthcare

 

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute:

 

Kevin T. Foley, MD

MERI Medical Director/Chairman

 

Adam S. Arthur, MD
Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee

 

Jon H. Robertson, MD

Professor & Chairman at University of Tennessee Neurosurgery Department

MERI Vice Chairman

 

Clarence Watridge, MD

Chairman, Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery

MERI Secretary