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Medical Student Contacts

If you have general questions about Medical Student/PA Student rotations, please call or email the Chattanooga UME office. Otherwise direct your questions about specific rotations to the program contacts listed below.


UME Office Contacts

Eli Kwak, BA, CMA
Medical Student Services Specialist
423.778.4886

Tiffany Nabors, BS, CMA (AAMA), CAP
Medical Student Campus Coordinator
423.778.7442

Karen S. Rogers, MD
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education
423.778.7442


Department Contacts

Emergency Medicine
Hollie Daugherty, Medical Student Coordinator
Kenneth Maniscalco, MD, Medical Student Director 
423.778.4696

Family Medicine
Charity Ross, MBA, Clerkship Coordinator
Sara Conway, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.2957

Geriatrics/Palliative Care
Joyce Poke, Clerkship Coordinator 
Patrick Koo, MD,
Clerkship Director
423.778.2998

Internal Medicine (& subspecialties)
Joyce Poke, Clerkship Coordinator
Patrick Koo, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.2998

Neurology
Stacey Blanks, C-TAGME, CAP, Residency and Student Coordinator
Jake McKay, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.3546

Obstetrics/Gynecology
Connie Land, Clerkship Coordinator
Jeanie Dassow, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.7515

Orthopaedic Surgery
Artnita Paris, Medical Student Coordinator
Dirk Kiner, MD, Program Director
423.778.9007 and 423.778.9008

Pediatrics (& subspecialties)
Tammy Elliott, Clerkship Coordinator
Kathryn Hines, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.6696

Plastic Surgery
Allison Ellis, CCMA, CST, Residency Coordinator
Jason Rehm, MD, Vice Chair
423.778.9663

Psychiatry
Joyce Poke, Clerkship Coordinator
Audrey Hime, MD,
Clerkship Director
423.778.2998

Radiology
Annette Vickrey, Medical Student Coordinator
Andrew Hill, MD, Medical Student Director
423.778.7371 and 423.778.7344

Surgery (& subspecialties)
Kimberly Crawford, Clerkship Coordinator
J. Daniel Stanley, MD, Clerkship Director
423.778.7695

Urology
Elizabeth "Beth" Brinn, Residency Coordinator / Student Coordinator
Jessica Lange, MD, Program Director / Medical Student Director
423.778.4691


PA Student Administration & Liaisons

Leigh Anne Pickup, MMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, CAQ Emergency Medicine
Assistant Director of Clinical Education, UTHSC Physician Assistant Program
615.678.3434

Tara Bennett, PA-C, Chattanooga Clinical Liaison, UTHSC Physician Assistant Program
859.312.1836

Jun 11, 2025