Dr. Richard Moody
Richard Moody, MD, has been installed as the 2023 president of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society. He is the 140th president in the organization’s history.
Dr. Moody, an internal medicine physician, is a partner at Chattanooga Family Practice Associates in East Ridge. He succeeds Immediate Past President Marijka Grey, MD, with Common Spirit. Other officers are Harish Manyam, MD, president-elect, cardiology with Erlanger Cardiology, and Melanie Blake, MD, secretary-treasurer, internal medicine with Lifestyle Medicine at Galen.
During 2023 Dr. Moody plans to focus on three areas:
Improve the Practice of Medicine – Work to provide resources to help both physician and practices thrive
Joy in Practice – Focus on the needs of physician members and their practices and to help reconnect them to their reason for pursuing medicine, including younger physicians and underrepresented groups
Community Health - Serving our community through the continued work of Project Access, as well as new ventures to decrease health disparities
“We have a strong record of farsighted vision and health promotion in our community,” Dr. Moody said of the Medical Society. “I am impressed with how the Society bridges or, better yet, obliterates the typical silos in which we operate. It is important that we continue to pursue the common causes that called us to this profession in the first place.”
New members of the 2023 Medical Society board are Robert Magill, MD, Parkridge Health System, and Todd Thurston, MD, Refined Looks Plastic Surgery. They join returning board members;
Hayley Everett, MD, UT College of Medicine Resident
Steven Fox, MD, UT Family Practice
Robert Jean, MD, University Surgical Associates
John McCarley, MD, Nephrology Associates
Jeffrey Mullins, MD, CHI Memorial Urology Associates
Michael Nichols, MD, Tennessee Interventional and Imaging Associates
Mukta Panda, MD, UT College of Medicine
Eugene Ryan, Parkridge Medical Group
Shevonda Sherrow, MD, Innovative Women’s Health Specialists
Kate Shuster, MD, Galen Dermatology
Harsha Vhardhana, MD, Tennessee Oncology
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society is an advocate for physicians and for the continual improvement of community health. Founded in 1883, the 1,200-member Medical Society is affiliated with the Tennessee Medical Association. Patient advocacy and the protection of the patient-physician relationship are primary goals.
The Medical Society partners with the Medical Foundation of Chattanooga on public service projects including the Hamilton County Project Access program; the Future Docs Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine and the Medical Exploration Program; and the LifeBridge Physician Well-Being Initiative.