The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society, Medical Foundation of Chattanooga, and Southeast Tennessee Project Access are recognizing local physicians by saluting 11 honorees for Doctors’ Day Appreciation. The honorees were selected from 110 nominations submitted by local residents.
The 10 honorees are:
Dr. Ranjith Babu, CHI Memorial Stroke and Neuroscience Center
Dr. Natasha Ballard, AFC Urgent Care
Dr. Tim Ballard, Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopeadics
Dr. Carolyn Brannon, Galen North Pediatrics
Dr. Jennifer Dooley, Volunteers in Medicine
Dr. Siobhan Duff and Dr. Monique Golding, Chattanooga Family Practice
Dr. John Huggins, University Surgical Associates
Dr. John McCarley, Nephrology Associates
Dr. Glenn Newman, Beacon Ridgeside Internal Medicine
Dr. Amar Singh, Erlanger Urology
National Doctors’ Day provides a time for people to show appreciation to the doctors who care for them or their loved ones. The first Doctors’ Day observance was March 30, 1933, in Winder, Georgia, on the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery. The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution commemorating Doctors’ Day on March 30, 1958. In 1990, Congress established March 30 each year as the National Doctors’ Day.